News EK Water Blocks launches M.2 NVMe SSD heatsinks

Even with weak airflow it's still probably WAY better than "heat shields" that some motherboard manufacturers are releasing (looking at you, MSI).

 

Wow, an EK product that isn't stupidly expensive.

 

I had a little feel-up of the PCH/M.2 heatsink on my z270i last night... That thing gets WARM. I don't know if that's because it's working well or not though - I haven't noticed any obvious signs of the 960 throttling, but that might be because it's such a rapid drive that even if it did, it'd be hard to notice in anything but synthetic benches?

 

Benchmarks apply a sustained load for a far longer period of time than real world use ever will, so heat and throttling are far bigger concerns in benchmarks than real life.

 

To be fair, my SM951 would idle in the mid to high 60s and easily reach into the 80s under gaming loads. Putting a basic VRM heatsink on it brought those idle temps down and load temps were still below where it idles without the chunk of metal stuck to it. Perfect.

Even now as it is under my second GPU, the drive barely gets into the 50s. The airflow from the GPU, albeit warm air, actually cools it off quite nicely.