I recently did a few slight upgrades to my system acquiring two new NVME M.2 Samsung 970 EVO PLUS SSD's one 2TB and one 500GB and replacing my aged Asus 1070 with a EVGA RTX3080 XC3 Ultra Gaming card which I'm noticing is a lot hotter.
My system (link)
The 2 TB drive one is behind my new video card. It's slightly warmer than I'd like around 40-42C but it's the other SSD I worry about. That's the 500GB which is right in front of the GPU's fans. It's averaging about 57-58C at idle. I'm concerned about those temps although not sure if I should be.
I have the 500GB purely for my OS whereas the 2TB is for my games. I also have a The easy solution would be to just make a partition on the 2TB and throw the OS on it and call it a day.
As I want to dedicate a whole drive to the OS and preserve some more space for my games I want to avoid this if possible.
I'm using a ASROCK 270M Extreme4 Motherboard with a i7 7770K cpu (not overclocking it atm) inside a 750D Corsair Obsidian Case with all AF140L case fans. I have two in the front for intake 1 in the back for exhaust and two recently mounted fans on the top for exhaust which greatly helped the GPU at least during idle. I had thought about mounting one exhaust fan on the bottom of my case which would be near the affected drive in the hopes of dissipating some of the heat being blown onto the drive from the GPU fan. I'm not sure if this would change things appreciably or not though.
I had read about heat sinks for NVME drives and was wondering if that is worth using for the short term as I do plan on getting a new board and cpu (amd 3900x likely) in the next couple of months unless I wait for a new 5x series board.
I had read something about removing the Samsung strip to use the heat sink on the nvme drive will void the warranty on the drive. Not sure if I got that right.
Any suggestions about how to bring the temps down or if it's not that high?
My system (link)
The 2 TB drive one is behind my new video card. It's slightly warmer than I'd like around 40-42C but it's the other SSD I worry about. That's the 500GB which is right in front of the GPU's fans. It's averaging about 57-58C at idle. I'm concerned about those temps although not sure if I should be.
I have the 500GB purely for my OS whereas the 2TB is for my games. I also have a The easy solution would be to just make a partition on the 2TB and throw the OS on it and call it a day.
As I want to dedicate a whole drive to the OS and preserve some more space for my games I want to avoid this if possible.
I'm using a ASROCK 270M Extreme4 Motherboard with a i7 7770K cpu (not overclocking it atm) inside a 750D Corsair Obsidian Case with all AF140L case fans. I have two in the front for intake 1 in the back for exhaust and two recently mounted fans on the top for exhaust which greatly helped the GPU at least during idle. I had thought about mounting one exhaust fan on the bottom of my case which would be near the affected drive in the hopes of dissipating some of the heat being blown onto the drive from the GPU fan. I'm not sure if this would change things appreciably or not though.
I had read about heat sinks for NVME drives and was wondering if that is worth using for the short term as I do plan on getting a new board and cpu (amd 3900x likely) in the next couple of months unless I wait for a new 5x series board.
I had read something about removing the Samsung strip to use the heat sink on the nvme drive will void the warranty on the drive. Not sure if I got that right.
Any suggestions about how to bring the temps down or if it's not that high?