Samsung M.2 -- Running hot?

[warderkeeju]

Hey,

 

I have a Sabertooth X99 with a i7 6850K in it. 

When I built it, I put a Samsung 950 Pro 512GB in the M.2 slot.  Its working fine, but the temps get rather high fairly quickly.

Does anyone make a small fan to fit over that thing? Or a heatsink that'll fit under the Asus 'TUF Armor' piece to help keep this toasty little bastard under some sort of temperature control?  I find I'm hitting the thermal throttle limit somewhat often when running multiple VMs.

The SSD idles around 52 C, and I've seen it hit 75 or 76 C with ATTO quite often.
I'm running AIO for the CPU and GPU.  So I don't have a TON of airflow across the motherboard.  I'm running a C70 case and I have two side fans blowing in, and a fan on the back blowing out.  The CPU AIO fans are blowing out, whereas the GPU AIO fans are pulling in.  Most of the fans are only running around 900 to 1100 RPM even under load.

I'd welcome suggestions on keeping my SSD out of an early grave due to heat.

 

[iamdarkyoshi]

Shame its not on the back of the board like it is on mine, I just put a thermal pad on it so it touches the PC case...

 

At least before my case was reconstructed out of cardboard

 

Might be able to put a thermal pad between it and the motherboard, and possibly yet from the motherboard to the PC case... Certainly shouldn't hurt

 

So it would make a sandwich looking like this:

 

SSD

Thermal pad

Motherboard PCB

Thermal pad

PC case

[warderkeeju]

1 minute ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Might be able to put a thermal pad between it and the motherboard, and possibly yet from the motherboard to the PC case... Certainly shouldn't hurt

 

So it would make a sandwich looking like this:

 

SSD

Thermal pad

Motherboard PCB

Thermal pad

PC case

I thought about that but I don't think it would do much, as the 'TUF Armor' is mostly composed of plastic.  Besides, I'd have to do a triple or quadruple layer of the pad for it touch the armor over the board.  Right now I have a fan sortof half angled at it with some ghetto zip ties and its sortof working.  Not sure if I want to buy a multi-thousand dollar 3D printer to print up a new cover just for a $4 USD fan to cool the SSD.

[iamdarkyoshi]

1 minute ago, warderkeeju said:

I thought about that but I don't think it would do much, as the 'TUF Armor' is mostly composed of plastic.  Besides, I'd have to do a triple or quadruple layer of the pad for it touch the armor over the board.  Right now I have a fan sortof half angled at it with some ghetto zip ties and its sortof working.  Not sure if I want to buy a multi-thousand dollar 3D printer to print up a new cover just for a $4 USD fan to cool the SSD.

Got any images of what it looks like? I guess I'm not 100% sure how the armor is laid out

[warderkeeju]

[iamdarkyoshi]

Just now, warderkeeju said:

 

Ouch, so they put it under a cover so it would run hotter? That seems a little bit... dumb...

Something like this might help more than nothing at all, and I'd personally recommend leaving the cover off anyway:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/361867672440

[dizmo]

The 950 Pro is known to have thermal issues, so it's a little hard to overcome.
However the option @iamdarkyoshi gave is your best bet. With the 960 series the sticker acts as a heatsink, so this should surely give more relief than that. Plus you could paint it whatever color you wanted.

[warderkeeju]

Yeah I'm digging around now to see if I can source a heatsink from somewhere other than China.  I don't wanna wait 4 weeks for the damn thing to come in the mail.

 

Thanks

I'll post back if I'm able to find one other than from China.

[iamdarkyoshi]

1 hour ago, warderkeeju said:

Yeah I'm digging around now to see if I can source a heatsink from somewhere other than China.  I don't wanna wait 4 weeks for the damn thing to come in the mail.

 

Thanks

I'll post back if I'm able to find one other than from China.

I'd personally just cut a section of an old pentium 4 heatsink off on my horrible freight bandsaw and stick it on it

[warderkeeju]

No bandsaws unfortunately -- however that does bring to mind, I might have some GIANT ass heatsinks from the Xeon 700 MHz or cartridge pentium 2/3 days that might work, now if I can borrow my uncle's bandsaw and bridgeport to clean up the edge..

[iamdarkyoshi]

Dig around your pile of junk (if you are anything like me) you might have a VRM heatsink from a graphics card or something that would work. I see one right on my desk thats like the exact same size as an M.2 drive