Question Installed new SSD into system, now fan speeds are super high and very loud ?

[Kylehall1409]

Hi all, first time posting here hope it’s in the right place.

Basically, I’ve installed a new 990 Pro 2Tb into my current PC build. It’s working perfectly everything is smooth and performing well, but for some reason, my GPU fans are going absolutely crazy, going on full blast under load when normally I would barely hear them, and I’m not sure why. I cloned my old SSD (an older M.2 Corsair drive) to this new drive so I could have the extra speed, maybe something went wrong in the process?

Another thing worth noting is that the SSD is installed in the slot underneath my GPU. It’s under a heatsink, so I wouldn’t have thought heat would be an issue, but maybe that’s making something go a bit dodgy. Temps for the M.2 are fine, it’s under a heatsink, and GPU idles at 50c (which feels a little high), and the fans kick in when it goes higher than that, probably about 60c.

Any advice is appreciated, thank you for reading

 

[dev_cyberpunk]

Another thing worth noting is that the SSD is installed in the slot underneath my GPU. It’s under a heatsink, so I wouldn’t have thought heat would be an issue, but maybe that’s making something go a bit dodgy. Temps for the M.2 are fine, it’s under a heatsink, and GPU idles at 50c (which feels a little high), and the fans kick in when it goes higher than that, probably about 60c.

Sounds like you have a motherboard that was engineered by an idiot. Because that what I would call the person who designed a board with a heat generator (m,2 drive) under the air flow region of a video card.

Relocate the drive to a different M.2 slot or get a M.2 extender and mount the drive in the case away from the video card.

 

[COLGeek]

When you installed your SSD into that particular slot, did you also remove the plastic protective film from the thermal pad on the bottom of the heatsink?

 

[Kylehall1409]

When you installed your SSD into that particular slot, did you also remove the plastic protective film from the thermal pad on the bottom of the heatsink?

Yeah I did. I’ve put the SSD in the slot that communicated with the chipset, I’ve got a slot spare that works with the COU instead, like my other drive, maybe it’s worth changing it over?

 

[Kylehall1409]

Sounds like you have a motherboard that was engineered by an idiot. Because that what I would call the person who designed a board with a heat generator (m,2 drive) under the air flow region of a video card.

Relocate the drive to a different M.2 slot or get a M.2 extender and mount the drive in the case away from the video card.

I’m going to try put the new SSD into the slot that isn’t under the GPU, now I’m using it as the boot drive, and put the other drive under the GPU now I just use it for storage. Will see how it goes