GPU Exhausts Hot Air Unto NVME Drive, Is That a Problem?

[Vishera]

GIGABYTE in their infinite wisdom positioned the NVME drive on my board exactly under the GPU,

So if a GPU with 2 or more slots is installed - It will exhaust hot air directly unto the NVME drive.

 

Is that a problem?

[Levent]

It hasnt for me. I got a RTX3070 blowing into a 670P for the last 18 months.

[8tg]

The exhaust of the gpu is still far cooler than the surface temperature of an nvme controller under load, it’ll still do some to cool it.

 

[tdkid]

on all GPUs, you would actually have to see which way the fans are spinning to know if they are exhausting or intaking the air from inside the case. either way it would be cooling your m.2 because it would either be sucking the hot air from the m.2 or blowing it away. you should be fine

[PDifolco]

26 minutes ago, Vishera said:

GIGABYTE in their infinite wisdom positioned the NVME drive on my board exactly under the GPU,

So if a GPU with 2 or more slots is installed - It will exhaust hot air directly unto the NVME drive.

 

Is that a problem?

It is an issue with a Gen4 NVMe, I had a SN850X there (below a 3080 on a X570 Aorus Pro), it was very hot, ended up putting the drive in a PCie adapter on the x4 slot

[Vishera]

5 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

It is an issue with a Gen4 NVMe, I had a SN850X there (below a 3080 on a X570 Aorus Pro), it was very hot, ended up putting the drive in a PCie adapter on the x4 slot

I have a Gen 3 drive so it seems like i will be OK.

[PDifolco]

Just now, Vishera said:

I have a Gen 3 drive so it seems like i will be OK.

Yup

And if have a GTX1660 that isn't quite as big than a 3080 it'll be even less of an issue

[Vishera]

4 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

Yup

And if have a GTX1660 that isn't quite as big than a 3080 it'll be even less of an issue

It isn't as big but it's significantly bigger than the average GTX 1660:

[tdkid]

24 minutes ago, Vishera said:

It isn't as big but it's significantly bigger than the average GTX 1660:

in your first post, you didnt mention what motherboard you have but I don't think it matters too much. with this pic you have the 2-slot 3 fan version of this GPU which might actually help your m.2 more because of 1 more fan removing the heat from the SSD.