Question Is it worth upgrading from the stock thermal pads included with the sabrent rocket 4?

[junabug2]

About to upgrade to a sabrent rocket 4 m.2, and it comes with a pretty chunky heatsink and thermal pads. I've also got a single thermal grizzly minus pad 8 - will I see any kind of significant cooling upgrade to go with the thermal grizzly? or are the included strips somehow better?

I'm not even sure if they're the same thickness etc ... am I overthinking things? Or is it probably right to use the highest quality pad I have when it has a chance to actually make a difference?

 

[Eximo]

I don't believe that is the fastest M.2 drive available. There are a few PCIe 5.0 drives out there.

I would stick with the stock pads, or just use the motherboard heatsinks, if applicable. Basically they only throttle on benchmarks. For the short bursts you typically see on the desktop or gaming, they don't heat up too much.

 

[junabug2]

Oh. Shows how far out of the loop I am!

Thanks for the advice.

 

[Maxxify]

Check temps during a benchmark. CrystalDiskMark works well, can check temps with CrystalDiskInfo. These drives won't throttle until around 80C usually, it's good to shoot for 70C or less during CDM, which is probably the case if it already has a beefy cooler.