Samsung 980 Pro Temps

[kmauldin3]

Hi I just got and installed a Samsung 980 Pro without heat sink, into my computer and I was wanting to make sure that temperature wouldn’t be a problem. I just swapped the drive with a 970 I got when I first built my computer a few weeks ago but the 980 was 58% off so it got it. I moved the 970 to my bottom slot and put the 980 in the top slot. I put it under a benchmark and it got up to 56-58 Celsius. I did hear that gen 4 can get a lot hotter but I want to make sure it’s being cooled ok. I’ve heard many different things about operating temperature and I wanted to ask about my use case specifically.

 

Intel Core i7 12700K

 

Corsair Vengeance DDR5 4800

 

RTX 3070 Ti

 

Asus ROG Strix Z690 E Gaming WiFi 

 

Corsair 850w PSU

 

Samsung 980 Pro 2 Tb

 

Samsung 970 Evo 1 Tb

[filpo]

On 2/22/2023 at 4:10 AM, kmauldin3 said:

Hi I just got and installed a Samsung 980 Pro without heat sink, into my computer and I was wanting to make sure that temperature wouldn’t be a problem. I just swapped the drive with a 970 I got when I first built my computer a few weeks ago but the 980 was 58% off so it got it. I moved the 970 to my bottom slot and put the 980 in the top slot. I put it under a benchmark and it got up to 56-58 Celsius. I did hear that gen 4 can get a lot hotter but I want to make sure it’s being cooled ok. I’ve heard many different things about operating temperature and I wanted to ask about my use case specifically.

 

Intel Core i7 12700K

 

Corsair Vengeance DDR5 4800

 

RTX 3070 Ti

 

Asus ROG Strix Z690 E Gaming WiFi 

 

Corsair 850w PSU

 

Samsung 980 Pro 2 Tb

 

Samsung 970 Evo 1 Tb

I think you should just buy one of those cheap thermal heatsinks off amazon because it seems like your SSD doesn't have enough space to dissipate that heat. Heres a good one if it fits in your case 

If not then a smaller and cheaper one can be found further down with a second heat sink for your 970 evo too

 

[NobleGamer]

There are multiple reviews that claim or show no evidence of thermal throttling around your temperatures for your SSD model.

 

If you can feel substancial heat radiating off of it (kinda doubt it with an M.2) and it's super close to a GPU, I guess you could get a heat sink, but then you need to make sure that you have enough room between the heat sink and GPU. Sounds like more pain and $ than it's worth to me unless temps were closer to 75 C, but you do you.