Question ram and ssd overheating, advice

[mark12345676543]

Has anyone tried putting a thermal pad and heatsink on the SSD in a laptop, and also a thermal pad and heatsink on the RAM to reduce overheating, and did the temperature result decrease?

 

[Lutfij]

Thermal pads on M.2 NVMe SSD's in a laptop are bespoke to laptops. If the bottom panel of your laptop is plastic then you're simply spending resources behind something that won't grant you much benefit. If the bottom of the laptop was metal, then the base would act as a heat spreader, hence the need for a thermal pad.

There isn't much space inside any laptop in the past decade as designers are favoring slimmer laptops.

What is the make and model of your laptop and the make and model of your ram and SSD? On a side note, you might want to use HWInfo and pass on a screenshot for your ram and SSD temps.

 

[mark12345676543]

Thermal pads on M.2 NVMe SSD's in a laptop are bespoke to laptops. If the bottom panel of your laptop is plastic then you're simply spending resources behind something that won't grant you much benefit. If the bottom of the laptop was metal, then the base would act as a heat spreader, hence the need for a thermal pad.

There isn't much space inside any laptop in the past decade as designers are favoring slimmer laptops.

What is the make and model of your laptop and the make and model of your ram and SSD? On a side note, you might want to use HWInfo and pass on a screenshot for your ram and SSD temps.

my laptop model: lenovo ideapad Gaming 3-15IMH05 Laptop - Type 81Y4
my ram: Lexar 16Gb DDR4-3200MHZ CL22 Notebook Ram LD4AS016G-B3200GSST
my ssd: samsung 970 evo plus 1tb

It has a metal part for the SSD but the cover itself is plastic but there is no metal part for the ram

and i want do this:

View: https://youtu.be/I8Z09nU554Q?si=B9Bf2BrcwsfECvIc


another question, Is it possible to add a thermal pad to the RAM only without a heatsink? Because the heatsink is not available in my country for the RAM

 

[Misgar]

LD4AS016G-B3200GSST

Your RAM can operate at up to +85°C (Surface) temperature.
https://americas.lexar.com/product/lexar-ddr4-3200-sodimm-laptop-memory/

ssd: samsung 970 evo plus 1tb

Your SSD can operate up to +70°C. Somewhere above this temperature I'd expect it to start throttling.
https://download.semiconductor.sams..._NVMe_SSD_970_EVO_Plus_Data_Sheet_Rev.3.0.pdf

The laptops I've examined already have a thermal pad on the M.2 drive. Even if this pad only touches
the fibre glass motherboard or plastic case, it will still conduct some heat away from the chips. Better than still (dead) air.

I'd hope that laptop manufacturers would fit SSDs and RAM that don't "overheat" enough to cause damage. If you've upgraded your SSD with a faster unit, e.g. gen.3 to gen.4, it might get hotterand throttle sooner. Reviews in Tom's often indicate the power dissiplated in each SSD tested. Lower power SSDs might be better in laptops, but desktops could cope with higher power drives.

If you live in a country where the ambient temperature regularly exceeds +40°C and you don't have AC. your laptop might start to complain. The same applies if you run some devices at altitudes over 3000m/10,000ft. The air is too thin for cooling fans to cope.

If you want to improve heatsinking, you could glue Aluminium foil on the inside of the bottom cover and fit a thermal pad to make contact. Take care that no live components short out on the metal foil.