Question Questions with installing my new SSD?

[naozdnelam]

Hello all! Not new to building PC's at all, however this is the first time using an SSD on any of my builds. (Embarrassing yes I know, but the past build was a budget build) With this new PC I'm building I bought the best of the best. So anyways on with my question! The SSD I bought was the Crucial T700 4 Gigabytes edition without the heatsink. It was only through getting everything shipped that I realized SSD's need a heatsink. (I was always under the impression that the motherboard cooled it. Which brings me to my next question.) Because obviously a lot of motherboards do have that built in heatsink used to cool down your SSD. I have the Asus ROG Crosshair X670E Hero, and seeing as it's an expensive and very well built motherboard, and seeing that it has built in heatsinks. I should be good right? Just wanted to ask and make sure!

 

[geofelt]

Your motherboard comes with a m.2 heat sink; use that.

What is the make/model of the rest of your parts?

Try to get some airflow over the motherboard to help cool the heat sink and the vrm's.

 

[naozdnelam]

Okay cool that's what I thought! I have a Ryzen 7 7800X3D with a NZXT Kraken Elite cooling it, an Asus RTX 4090, 64 Gigabytes of Kingston Fury RAM, Lian Li Evo XL case, as well as a lot of chassis fans that I bought to make sure everything stays extra nice and cool.