Question Temp issue with NVMe gen 4 SSD on mobo with PCIe 3 or gen 3 ?

[impzx]

hello sorry i wanna ask like the tittle say is there any temp issue like overheat or throttling when installed NVMe gen 4 SSD on mobo with PCIe 3? im planning to buy ssd samsung 990 pro but my mobo MSI B450 tomahawk max still pcie 3

and another trouble is
1. the mobo doesn't have heatsink (maybe i will buy 3rd party heatsink later)
2. the m2 slot is above GPU

for the speed limited to gen 3 yes i know i'm aware but im fine with this i'm planning to buy ssd gen 4 is just future proofing just incase i wanna upgrade my pc later

my pc spec
ryzen 5 3600
Msi b450 tomahawk max
asus dual rtx 4060

Thankss

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

To answer the question ion your thread's title, I doubt you should be undergoing any thermal throttling since your speeds will be capped by the speed of the slot you're populating the SSD onto = PCIe3.0 at best.

1| You don't need one if you have a case that has optimal airflow and there are fans blowing from front to back of the case(with a case that has good ventilation on the case fascia).

2| Why does that matter? You'll have PCIe 3.0 x4 speeds regardless.

my pc spec
ryzen 5 3600
Msi b450 tomahawk max
asus dual rtx 4060
Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.

 

[SkyNetRising]

im planning to buy ssd samsung 990 pro but my mobo MSI B450 tomahawk max still pcie 3
1. the mobo doesn't have heatsink (maybe i will buy 3rd party heatsink later)
2. the m2 slot is above GPU

If you're getting gen4 990 pro and your motherboard doesn't have NVME heatsink, then
get 990 pro version with heatsink included.
It costs just a few $ more.

 

[impzx]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

To answer the question ion your thread's title, I doubt you should be undergoing any thermal throttling since your speeds will be capped by the speed of the slot you're populating the SSD onto = PCIe3.0 at best.

1| You don't need one if you have a case that has optimal airflow and there are fans blowing from front to back of the case(with a case that has good ventilation on the case fascia).

2| Why does that matter? You'll have PCIe 3.0 x4 speeds regardless.

my pc spec
ryzen 5 3600
Msi b450 tomahawk max
asus dual rtx 4060
Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.

thanks for the answer, honestly im not sure with the airflow since im gonna buy new casing also, i just afraid cause i see some post about temp issue with nvme gen 4 thats why im asking just to make sure

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600
CPU cooler: now still using cooler master hyper 212 air cooler and i'm Planning to buy this Arctic Liquid Freezer III 360 Pro
Motherboard: MSI B450 Tomahawk Max
Ram: corsair vegeance LPX 16gb
SSD/HDD: ssd sata samsung and 4 WD HDD
GPU: Asus dual rtx 4060
PSU: Super Flower Leadex III 850w (3-4 months old just upgraded)
Chassis: Nzxt Phantom planning to buy Fractal Desigh Meshify 2 later
OS: win 10
Monitor:

If you're getting gen4 990 pro and your motherboard doesn't have NVME heatsink, then
get 990 pro version with heatsink included.
It costs just a few $ more.

currently there is no available stock for 990 pro 1tb with heatsink only 2-4tb ready here in my local marketplace, is there really huge difference with heatsink from 3rd party?

 

[SkyNetRising]

is there really huge difference with heatsink from 3rd party?

There are a lot of different 3rd party options for NVME heatsinks.
Some are very large and may interfere with cpu cooler or graphics card.

With preinstalled heatsink you probably wouldn't need to worry about that.

 

[Lutfij]

Just to add to the advice of going with an SSD with a preinstalled heatsink, if you do end up getting the heatsinked version, for your current platform but decide to migrate the SSD to another platform and then decide to remove the heatsink(since your motherboard might have heatsinks itself), rethink that last part;
https://download.semiconductor.sams...D_990_PRO_with_Heatsink_Datasheet_Rev.1.0.pdf
^ please read page 3, section 6.