Solution to high m.2 SSD temperature (78c°) even with heatsink

[Chunchunmaru_]

So, my M.2 slot is right behind my GPU (wow, nice job MSI), so it has very very poor cooling and also takes heat from the GPU (RX 580)

Is there anything that I can do with it? I bought an heatsink from china (the one with the thermal pad, the copper heatsink and two rubber bands) but temperatures under an ssd benchmark are still going over 78c°

Now, honestly, I don't remember how it was before, but is it better leaving this SSD without an heatsink so air can circulate better? My case is also literally full of fans, my GPU is cooler than this SSD and my CPU, this is a bit insane...

[Origami Cactus]

You can move the GPU to a lower PCIE slot?

 

But i have heard of M.2 SSD's running at 100c, so 78 is acceptable temp.

[jones177]

My 2tb 970 EVO gets hotter in benches, if you are reading temperature 2 on hwinfo64.

 

What I do to test SSD cooling is run my "hard to run" open world games like Assassin's Creed Odyssey. They are "load as you go" so they can give an SSD a good "real world" work out.

 

Unless you are reading and writing to a another M.2 of equal speed temps are not a problem. When my 970 EVO reads and writes to a SATA SSD it is at SATA speeds which is below what an EVO throttles to. When reading and writing to itself it does not do it long enough to create much heat.

 

The only 2 scenarios that I know of were I would have to look for a cooling solution is 3D animation compiling and video editing and I no longer do either.

 

Run Hwinfo64 as you do your daily routine. If you are getting too hot then look for a cooling solution.

 

 

  

[SubTract]

78°C is well and truly within spec. Don't worry about it.