Are M.2 heatsinks safe?

[Mahbub]

I am gonna buy an m.2 soon. Now since the m.2 will be very near to the gpu.. its gonna get hot.. so i planned to get a heatsink.. now some people said that that the nand chips like being warm and the thermal pad should only contact the controller so the thermal pad should be cut to only make controller touch the heatsink. Now thats a good plan but what m curios to know is that heatsink is held to the m.2 by clips and cutting thermal pad will mean that the clip will hold the heatsink tightly to the m.2 only on one end while on the other end due to no thermal pad between it will be held loosely to the m.2. Will this cause any issue? Plus i guess to put a heatsink i will have to remove the stickers.. will that void warranty?

[5x5]

Yes, warranty will be void.

 

As for the heatsinks, they should contact everything. If memory was supposed to get hot, GPU coolers wouldn't be a timely cooling it and high end RAM wouldn't have heat spreaders

[GDRRiley]

3 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

Yes, warranty will be void.

 

As for the heatsinks, they should contact everything. If memory was supposed to get hot, GPU coolers wouldn't be a timely cooling it and high end RAM wouldn't have heat spreaders

not legally in the US

NAND and RAM are different

 

NAND does best a little warm.

[SupaKomputa]

remove stickers, no warranty.

Buy smaller heatsink for individual chips.

[seon123]

6 minutes ago, Mahbub said:

Now since the m.2 will be very near to the gpu.. its gonna get hot..

Is it a blower style GPU, or an open air one? If it's an open air one, expect the temperatures to get lowered by the airflow from the GPU.

 

[Mahbub]

4 minutes ago, seon123 said:

Is it a blower style GPU, or an open air one? If it's an open air one, expect the temperatures to get lowered by the airflow from the GPU.

 

Open air one zotac gtx 1080 amp extreme..  also like isint it the opposite..like during gaming the gpu ia gonna blow hot air literally exactly onto the m.2.. so wont the m.2 temps get worse?

[seon123]

1 minute ago, Mahbub said:

Open air one zotac gtx 1080 amp extreme..  also like isint it the opposite..like during gaming the gpu ia gonna blow hot air literally exactly onto the m.2.. so wont the m.2 temps get worse?

If the GPU core runs at e.g. 80 degrees, that does not mean that the air will be 80 degrees after going through the GPU heatsink

[Mahbub]

Just now, seon123 said:

If the GPU core runs at e.g. 80 degrees, that does not mean that the air will be 80 degrees after going through the GPU heatsink

Yes thats true.. lol.. how did i not see this.. thanks..  mine is undervolted.. stays arounf 65 ish to 70 around load