NVME overheating

[Monaco Clkrx]

Hi, so I didn’t get a clear answer on google and I am curious if this is safe. During gameplay, my SN770 2tb shows one of the chips reaching 75C, and I am curious if this is safe as it is a storage device. And yes, I do have a heatsink on it.

[jaslion]

Thats a bit oddly warm. No airflow over it?

[Monaco Clkrx]

1 minute ago, jaslion said:

Thats a bit oddly warm. No airflow over it?

The way my motherboard is situated is the fastest nvme slot is directly below the top pcie slot so yea basically no airflow

[whispous]

The drive will slow itself down to prevent the temperature from reaching damaging levels.

 

You could buy a small metal NVMe heatsink that comes with a thermal pad to stick on top

[PDifolco]

2 hours ago, Monaco Clkrx said:

The way my motherboard is situated is the fastest nvme slot is directly below the top pcie slot so yea basically no airflow

What board is that ? Usually the "faster" CPU M2 slot is close to the CPU, only the board M2 slots are in the PCIE slot area

[leclod]

4 hours ago, Monaco Clkrx said:

my SN770 2tb shows one of the chips reaching 75C

you have multiple temp sensors on your ssd ? my SN850X only shows one and never reached 75°.

SSDs mostly increase temperature when being written upon (a lot), which is unlikely while gaming.

4 hours ago, Monaco Clkrx said:

The way my motherboard is situated is the fastest nvme slot is directly below the top pcie slot so yea basically no airflow

That sounds like the SSD is under the gpu, which could explain some heat while gaming but not that much heat

Edited February 3, 2025 by leclod

[jaslion]

38 minutes ago, leclod said:

you have multiple temp sensors on your ssd ? my SN850X only shows one and never reached 75°.

SSDs mostly increase temperature when being written upon (a lot), which is unlikely while gaming.

That sounds like the SSD is under the gpu, which could explain some heat while gaming but not that much heat

Normally the airflow from the gpu even helps a lot with heat unless its a closed side vents unit

[Monaco Clkrx]

3 hours ago, PDifolco said:

What board is that ? Usually the "faster" CPU M2 slot is close to the CPU, only the board M2 slots are in the PCIE slot area

I have a gigabyte D3SH b650m. If you can see it is the closest m2 slot to the cpu. 

 

2 hours ago, leclod said:

you have multiple temp sensors on your ssd ? my SN850X only shows one and never reached 75°.

SSDs mostly increase temperature when being written upon (a lot), which is unlikely while gaming.

Yes, I have 3 temp sensors, one for each player of the chips and for the controller chip. That is why I am confused, as the ssd is under basically no load when gaming.

 

2 hours ago, jaslion said:

Normally the airflow from the gpu even helps a lot with heat unless its a closed side vents unit

Yea that’s what I would’ve expected too but apparently not.

[PDifolco]

3 minutes ago, Monaco Clkrx said:

I have a gigabyte D3SH b650m. If you can see it is the closest m2 slot to the cpu. 

 

Yes, I have 3 temp sensors, one for each player of the chips and for the controller chip. That is why I am confused, as the ssd is under basically no load when gaming.

 

Yea that’s what I would’ve expected too but apparently not.

Do you have any heatsink on the SSD? Even a small one makes a good difference 

[Monaco Clkrx]

11 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

Do you have any heatsink on the SSD? Even a small one makes a good difference 

I have the stock heatsink that came with the motherboard 

[leclod]

3 hours ago, Monaco Clkrx said:

Yes, I have 3 temp sensors, one for each player of the chips and for the controller chip.

Could you show me with a screenshot ?

Edited February 3, 2025 by leclod

[Monaco Clkrx]

7 hours ago, leclod said:

Could you show me with a screenshot ?

Basically when I hover over them, It tells me what part of the NVME is. 1 and 2 are the nand chips and 3 is the controller. 

[Monaco Clkrx]

2 hours ago, Monaco Clkrx said:

Basically when I hover over them, It tells me what part of the NVME is. 1 and 2 are the nand chips and 3 is the controller. 

 

Looking back at this thread, in this picture, It looks like drive 2 is drive 1 and 3 combined, but that is not the case when I look at it currently.

[NobleGamer]

16 hours ago, PDifolco said:

What board is that ? Usually the "faster" CPU M2 slot is close to the CPU, only the board M2 slots are in the PCIE slot area

My B550-F (see attachment) has two M.2 slots and the top one yes it's between the CPU and GPU slots, but it is so close to the GPU slot that the top of a decent sized GPU will cover nearly all of it when looking at it from the side. In my case, the temp is 10C higher here (versus the second lower slot) sitting under my RTX 3080 and with 4 case fans.

 

14 hours ago, jaslion said:

Normally the airflow from the gpu even helps a lot with heat unless its a closed side vents unit

No it doesn't when...

15 hours ago, leclod said:

That sounds like the SSD is under the gpu, which could explain some heat while gaming but not that much heat

 

[Monaco Clkrx]

2 minutes ago, NobleGamer said:

My B550-F (see attachment) has two M.2 slots and the top one yes it's between the CPU and GPU slots, but it is so close to the GPU slot that the top of a decent sized GPU will cover nearly all of it when looking at it from the side. In my case, the temp is 10C higher here (versus the second lower slot) sitting under my RTX 3080 and with 4 case fans.

 

No it doesn't when...

 

I don't have nearly as big a card as you  (3060ti 2fan), and it still is fully covered. The heatsink doesn't really help either. I think this is just bad design from manufacture to begin with. 

 

[NobleGamer]

3 minutes ago, Monaco Clkrx said:

I don't have nearly as big a card as you  (3060ti 2fan), and it still is fully covered. The heatsink doesn't really help either. I think this is just bad design from manufacture to begin with. 

It might be more like either it costs much more to relocate the M.2 slot somewhere that's not covered by a GPU or it wouldn't be practical to move other stuff around on the mobo.

 

It also doesn't help that it seems your form factor is the smaller mATX instead of full ATX like my B550-F.