I see that they "forgot" to specify db level for that fan. 30mm fans are pretty noisy at full speed and kind of useless at low speed - on another site the rated speed is also specified：3500-6500 RPM±10% (MAX) - you can make a fan curve in bios but I don't know how much better it will go vs a fanless design at low fan speed. Also in the pictures one the fan screws seems loose??? while the fan is running and the other one is not straight - I don't know what to think about build quality if these are their presentation images - they should be more careful. And I thought that after the short return of the chipset fan for the X570 we will not see another fan besides case, gpu and radiators...

I would so much rather just get one of the x16 cards with 4 M.2 slots. You get so much more performance, more total storage capacity (and if you need enough speed to warrant a giant active-cooled heatsink, you're probably going to need the capacity to match), and less noise.

this is a good product but it goes to show how ridiculous the claims of pcie 5.0 mobo "compatibility" are small volume drives don't generate nearly as much heat so the aibs are expecting only 500gb/1tb m.2 drives by the basis of heatsink provided. only a very few boards have the thermal capacity to handle 2 or 4tb drives w/o throttling. and those boards typically have heatpipes to very beefy vrm heatsinks or active fans. the only reason folks aren't p.o.'ed by this is the sky high price limiting the adoption rate as well as the simple fact pcie 5.0 is too much too soon

So..... we pull the heat off the back of the graphics card, push it through the SSD heatsink and into the CPU cooler.....yep, seems like an effective design..... Guess I'll stick with PCIe 3 SSDs to I don't have to attach a ridiculous cooler to something else.

sykozis:

So..... we pull the heat off the back of the graphics card, push it through the SSD heatsink and into the CPU cooler.....yep, seems like an effective design..... Guess I'll stick with PCIe 3 SSDs to I don't have to attach a ridiculous cooler to something else.

it's like the front mount rads pushing the hot air back into the pc. I always laugh at that stuff.

Typhon Six Six Six:

it's like the front mount rads pushing the hot air back into the pc. I always laugh at that stuff.

:pDude!:p when i have to use a front mount i put the fans in exhaust....but rgb freaks dont get as nice as a show unlesss they buy the very trick new TT fans w/ magnetic mounting made just for having bling on the exhaust side

Typhon Six Six Six:

it's like the front mount rads pushing the hot air back into the pc. I always laugh at that stuff.

With proper exhaust venting, that's really not a problem. Pulling air off a component that's running upwards of 90C to cool something you don't want getting that hot, isn't a great idea....

sykozis:

With proper exhaust venting, that's really not a problem. Pulling air off a component that's running upwards of 90C to cool something you don't want getting that hot, isn't a great idea....

That's why I laugh. Why go out of your way to transfer heat away then have it blown right back? Kinda like having a rad at the bottom of a case pushing hot air up to re heat the things you're cooling in the 1st place.