Question Temperature for nvme drives and cooling issues

[willeatpants]

I've been monitoring my primary and secondary nvme drives on my pc.
Using HDD sentinel I've noticed that thise drive heat up to 50c (primary) and 40-45c (secondary) - this happens when I was playing black ops6 (I know that Activision can't optimise it) and monster hunter world.

Originally I thought it was becuase I brought and installed a Ryzen 9 5900xt and my 240 aio wasn't good enough so I replaced that with a 360 aio. (cpu temps are lower now) but the nvme drives are still hitting those temperatures.

I have another theory that I might need to replace the thermal pads on my nvme drives (but haven't brought new thermal pads yet)

I was looking into nvme to sata connections to do a test to see if they heat up in a differnt location (but I haven't brought the adapter yet)

I hope it's not my mobo being old, becuase that would suck to get a new am4 socket board when am5 are better.

PC specs

AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT (not OC
32gb corsier ram 3200mhz (not OC)
500gb/1tb Samsung nvme drives (primary then secondary)
Corsier 850ti psu
x570s gaming x motherboard

 

[Lutfij]

500gb/1tb Samsung nvme drives (primary then secondary)
Samsung have a couple of NVMe drives in their portfolio, both new and old, which one are we looking at? What does Samsung's Magician app/tool show you in terms of temps?

x570s gaming x motherboard
What BIOS version are you on for your motherboard? Which slots are the SSD's populating on the board?

Please include the make and model of your case and the orientation of the fans/AIO in your build. Speaking of airflow, you might want to include an image of your build for us to see how your airflow in in your case.

Originally I thought it was becuase I brought and installed a Ryzen 9 5900xt and my 240 aio wasn't good enough so I replaced that with a 360 aio. (cpu temps are lower now) but the nvme drives are still hitting those temperatures.
Have you tried aiming a case fan at the NVMe drives and seen if the temps go down and hold that line when taxed?

Corsier 850ti psu
Corsair never made an 850Ti PSU. Might want to doublecheck the unit's stickered info. You also forgot to mention the make and model of your discrete GPU in your build.

 

[Unolocogringo]

Kind of a common problem. Especially if your radiator is in the front intake position.
My 970 evo+ in the top slot is always 59-60c.
My 3060ti FE blows its hot air out directly onto the NVME drive.
My other computer ,same motherboard and drive is 50-51c with a Asus Dual 4070.
Both run Folding@Home 24/7/365.
So it heating up while gaming from the video card blowing hot air on it is normal for the top NVME slot above the video card on most boards.
The lower drive could be 2 things or a combo of the 2.
Your radiator is set as intake in the front of the case.
The game you are playing is on the second lower NVME drive.