Ideas for cooling a 970 Evo Plus?

[RecyclopsReveng3]

We all know M.2 SSD's run hot. But this 970 Evo Plus 1TB is sitting at around 51C and when in use it jumps up to around 70C. I installed one of the EK heatsinks for it and it literally hasn't helped what-so-ever. I'm running an ASUS Maximus Hero IX, I loved it from the upper M.2 slot (directly to the left of RAM) to the lower M.2 slot (between the last 2 PCI-E slots) so hopefully the case fans would push some air across it but that hasn't done much either. Any ideas? Would you personally worry about ~70C under load?

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, RecyclopsReveng3 said:

and when in use it jumps up to around 70C

hardly a problem

[RecyclopsReveng3]

Just now, Fasauceome said:

hardly a problem

It's not that high? Alright I won't worry about it then. Thank you. 

[GeoHandle]

I wouldn't worry much about the heat at that level unless your constantly doing really heavy workloads on it. If you really are worried about it though you might get better temp drops from other heatsink, especially if you use different thermal pads/paste. (I think linus used some in a recentish video?)

[RecyclopsReveng3]

1 minute ago, GeoHandle said:

I wouldn't worry much about the heat at that level unless your constantly doing really heavy workloads on it. If you really are worried about it though you might get better temp drops from other heatsink, especially if you use different thermal pads/paste. (I think linus used some in a recentish video?)

I'll dig around for it, thanks