Gigabyte B850 gaming Wi-Fi 6 M.2 cooler with heatsink
Gigabyte B850 gaming Wi-Fi 6 M.2 cooler with heatsink
The game size doesn’t affect performance. You’re not downloading massive files at once for long. We handle large games smoothly.
Actually, after playing around with the front intake fans on the PC case and bumping their RPM all the way up to like 1900RMP to test this idea, I understood you have a better chance at making an M.2 SSD drive cooler by just making the overall temps in your case cooler. The frontside intake fans seem to have the biggest impact on how cool the air in the PC case will be, since they push a lot of colder air in it. If they're powerful enough you can feel that air exiting through the back of the case. And what I noticed with the front fans running at max speed is that multiple components can lose some heat: the CPU lost like 15 degrees C if I doubled the fans speed, today I see that my M.2 boot drive is at 48 degrees C when usually it's at 54, the mobo also seems to have dropped a few. All this from just bumping the front fans curve to about 60% when I have average idle temps. So I think it doesn't make any sense to get an M.2 heatsink with fans for it. In that small cramped space between GPU and mobo there's a lot of hot air and pushing that around might not cool it down much. You're better off having some sturdy front intake fans that can push some more colder air into the case and the whole system will benefit. A basic heatsink plate on the SSD should be enough if SSD temps are a concern. Then increase the intake fans RPM until you see temps going down.