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Question 990 pro with or without heatsink?
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hotaru.hino
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Get it without the heat sink, since you'll just have to take it off anyway.
Why? It doesn’t fit. I assumed manufacture heat sink should be more efficient than motherboards, no?
SkyNetRising
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Efficiency would be similar.
Main difference is, how it looks on your motherboard.
IMHO motherboard heatsinks look better.
hotaru.hino
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I'll admit I ran with an assumption that some motherboards integrate the M.2 heat sink with the chipset one. So for your board, you technically don't need to use it.
But in any case, it doesn't matter. The one with the heat sink is only there for installations where a heat sink isn't available, e.g., game consoles. And even then, you don't really need a heat sink on an SSD unless you're really hammering it all the time with writes.
SkyNetRising
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PCIE gen4 and gen5 M.2 drives generally run hot and require a heatsink.
Gen3 drives are fine without it (with sufficient case air flow).
Thanks guys, now on another question, which of these are best to get now for boot drive plus productivity?!
- 990 Pro
- WD SN850X
- Solidigm P44 Pro
OR, shell out for PCI-E 5.0 SSDs as my mobo supports it?
Outright performance is important, BUT more important is reliability and not having to deal with dead drives, immature wear, or RMAing it in 6mos.
- 990 Pro
- WD SN850X
- Solidigm P44 Pro
OR, shell out for PCI-E 5.0 SSDs as my mobo supports it?
Outright performance is important, BUT more important is reliability and not having to deal with dead drives, immature wear, or RMAing it in 6mos.
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hotaru.hino
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During reads and sitting there, or during writes? Because I ran a read test on my Gen 4 SSD and its temperature went up by like 1-2C.
EDIT: Went and found a review that tested this: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/samsung-990-pro-2-tb/8.html. So it's only a problem if you're doing writes. Sure it warms up a bit when you're doing reads but it's nowhere near any thermal throttling limit.
Unless you're running a heavy duty server, performance from SSDs matter little in consumer applications. Even if you're doing something like video editing, you're going to be CPU constrained most of the time.
As far as reliability goes, that's up in the air. If the hardware survives its first 30 days, then it'll likely last for years to come and its chance of dying is probably no more than any other drive. But if you want some peace of mind, stick with well known brands like Samsung, WD, Seagate, Crucial, and Sabrent.
Who is Sabrent? I have never heard of them until now, but they seem to have good SSDs. When I last built my PC a few years ago, it wasn't around.
thestryker
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Personally speaking I've only used Samsung, Intel (now Solidigm), Sandisk (now WD) and SK Hynix SSDs. I'd happily recommend any of them, but would advise to do research on professional and user reviews. Sabrent really drove a lot of the pricing in the industry down by providing quality SSDs at a lower price, but that never coincided with my time to buy.
My forthcoming build is all Solidigm P44 Pro drives.
My forthcoming build is all Solidigm P44 Pro drives.
No SK Hynix did and branded it Solidigm.
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