air cooling NVMe Cooling,

[The Great Mighty Poo]

Hey there I’ve decided to build an over the top, open budget gaming/media rig, using some of the latest parts, I’ll be running an Nvidia 2080tife card, a Ryzen9 on an MSI X570 board, using a full eatx tower. I won’t be overclocking for a while so my system will only be air cooled till I get a custom loop setup, my question is if I get the new Corsair gen 4 NVMe Ssd it comes with an air cooling heat sink glued on, my Godlike mommyboard has its own air cooling cover with thermal pads for regular NVMe ssd, which one would allow better cooling? 

[CopiWasTaken]

2 minutes ago, The Great Mighty Poo said:

Hey there I’ve decided to build an over the top, open budget gaming/media rig, using some of the latest parts, I’ll be running an Nvidia 2080tife card, a Ryzen9 on an MSI X570 board, using a full eatx tower. I won’t be overclocking for a while so my system will only be air cooled till I get a custom loop setup, my question is if I get the new Corsair gen 4 NVMe Ssd it comes with an air cooling heat sink glued on, my Godlike mommyboard has its own air cooling cover with thermal pads for regular NVMe ssd, which one would allow better cooling? 

Heatsinks aren't that neccesary for nvme ssds, but either one should be fine, the corsair one is relatively beefy and should to the trick, but the motherboards will work as well. (If you wanted to go insanely overkill, you could get a waterblock and have a water cooled ssd.)

[Alex Atkin UK]

A few motherboards I believe use the NVME heatsink as part of the chipset cooling, so you HAVE to leave it on then.

If its pre-applied to the NVME, it may not be removeable.  Although you could probably use one of the NVME slots that DOESN'T have one included, as usually only one of them does.

[Chabax]

corsair gen 4 nvme have pretty solid cooler by itself, i have gigabyte aorus rgb 512gb with very small heatsink and temps are never issue

[The Great Mighty Poo]

3 hours ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

A few motherboards I believe use the NVME heatsink as part of the chipset cooling, so you HAVE to leave it on then.

If its pre-applied to the NVME, it may not be removeable.  Although you could probably use one of the NVME slots that DOESN'T have one included, as usually only one of them does.

That is a good point, I’ll check in the manual and with MSI if my board can run without the covers, at the very least, since the 3 NVMe slots are at the ends of the cooling heatpipe branches, I’m pretty sure they can be discarded if I replace those with heat sinked ssd

[The Great Mighty Poo]

3 hours ago, ItzCopiouz said:

Heatsinks aren't that neccesary for nvme ssds, but either one should be fine, the corsair one is relatively beefy and should to the trick, but the motherboards will work as well. (If you wanted to go insanely overkill, you could get a waterblock and have a water cooled ssd.)

That would be a “cool” system, lmao, but I think I’ll stop after the two GPUs and CPU are looping 

[kyn1972]

5 hours ago, The Great Mighty Poo said:

Hey there I’ve decided to build an over the top, open budget gaming/media rig, using some of the latest parts, I’ll be running an Nvidia 2080tife card, a Ryzen9 on an MSI X570 board, using a full eatx tower. I won’t be overclocking for a while so my system will only be air cooled till I get a custom loop setup, my question is if I get the new Corsair gen 4 NVMe Ssd it comes with an air cooling heat sink glued on, my Godlike mommyboard has its own air cooling cover with thermal pads for regular NVMe ssd, which one would allow better cooling? 

For my samsung 970 evo plus  I installed the Cryorig CR-M2A Frostbit.

I know, the motherboard cooler would probably do the job more than well enough but I simply liked the looks of the Cryorig more lol