TP01 Thermal Pads from SilverStone should cool M.2-SSDs the cheapo way

Ricepudding

2017-03-17 12:24

Maybe we might get them tiny little heat sinks we used to have on GPU's back in the day, only issue is the placement for some of these m.2 slots prevent that, though if we just put them in PCIe slots they should have room for that and even a small fan. HH you going to get these to test them out? maybe they might work very well

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Tripkebab

2017-03-17 13:15

I've got to get got me some of these.

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HawaiianBrian

2017-03-17 14:10

If a product over heats that much then its clearly piss poor engineering. End of story.

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Silva

2017-03-17 14:33

If a product over heats that much then its clearly piss poor engineering. End of story.

I agree. The company developing the SSD should well know it will overheat and think in a solution to stop it from doing so. These days people just go for burst speeds and not constant speed over a long period of time.

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Agent-A01

2017-03-17 14:36

A thermal pad alone will be useless. You can get a heatsink with a thermal pad for around $8

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xrodney

2017-03-17 14:46

A thermal pad alone will be useless. You can get a heatsink with a thermal pad for around $8

In this case you don't need extra heatsink as you transfer heat from M.2 board to pci-e card board which have much bigger surface area for cooling, however, this would bring temperature down just few degrees. Much better effect would be to put small memory chip heatsink on chip itself and mainly controller as that part is generating most heat.

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Elder III

2017-03-17 15:22

My new motherboard has a heatsink/heatplate? with thermal pads for the M.2 2280 SSD. It seems to help keep it at reasonable temperatures. I still have a little bag somewhere with a bunch of those 1/2"-1" long heatsinks from some GPU modding years ago. 🤓

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Agent-A01

2017-03-17 15:23

In this case you don't need extra heatsink as you transfer heat from M.2 board to pci-e card board which have much bigger surface area for cooling, however, this would bring temperature down just few degrees. Much better effect would be to put small memory chip heatsink on chip itself and mainly controller as that part is generating most heat.

A circuit board has similar thermal conductivity of plastic, aka next to useless. So trying to use it as a heatsink in marketing for their product is pretty fail. You need some kind of material with good thermal conductivity, otherwise it's pointless

My new motherboard has a heatsink/heatplate? with thermal pads for the M.2 2280 SSD. It seems to help keep it at reasonable temperatures. I still have a little bag somewhere with a bunch of those 1/2"-1" long heatsinks from some GPU modding years ago. 🤓

If it's anything like the MSI M.2 cooling(Which looks like it is) it's a bad idea to use it. In fact it traps heat and makes the M.2 device run hotter. Good idea from a marketing standpoint but in practice it's more detrimental than anything.

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dean469

2017-03-17 16:53

@Hilbert Many M2 SSDs these days get *got under long duration load, Shouldn't that say *hot?

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xrodney

2017-03-17 21:26

A circuit board has similar thermal conductivity of plastic, aka next to useless. So trying to use it as a heatsink in marketing for their product is pretty fail. You need some kind of material with good thermal conductivity, otherwise it's pointless

Actually PCB have quite decent heat conductivity which is being actively used for cooling chips. Why do you think most lower power chips can do without heatsinks ?

If it's anything like the MSI M.2 cooling(Which looks like it is) it's a bad idea to use it. In fact it traps heat and makes the M.2 device run hotter. Good idea from a marketing standpoint but in practice it's more detrimental than anything.

MSI M.2 cooling idea is crap, it have close to zero capacity to absorb heat and just trap it bellow. What we were talking about are separate heatsinks for each chip, like here : http://images.thecoolingshop.com/product_images/large/29/34096_03.jpg

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Guru3dreader

2017-03-17 23:36

A 10cm by 10cm thermal pad sells on eBay for $1. Then with $2 more you can buy a few small heatsinks to add extra cooling area. This kit is expensive.

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jdc2389

2017-03-18 01:36

Just throw some copper on the chips, https://i.imgur.com/9x5IreB.jpg

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slyphnier

2017-03-18 18:29

if the pads have some "real" cooling feature, probably only to make the heat spread evenly that if the pad in a strip covering chips, just a pad on a chip wont do nothing even if the pad do take heat from the chip, the heat wont sink much either so basically this product is kinda crap

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Darkest

2017-03-18 19:12

Actually PCB have quite decent heat conductivity which is being actively used for cooling chips. Why do you think most lower power chips can do without heatsinks ?

Because they're low power...? https://www.electronics-cooling.com/1998/05/conduction-heat-transfer-in-a-printed-circuit-board/

The results show that a typical PCB is not an efficient conductor of heat, leading to significant local variations in the PCB temperature in the vicinity of heat-generating components.

If you genuinely want to cool something down, you need to use some sort of heatsink and/or fan.

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Elder III

2017-03-18 20:58

For what it's worth, the M200 that came with my motherboard has an operating temp of 0-70C and runs at a max of ~47C after a 3 hour long max stress test. Considering it's location on the motherboard I have to believe that the heatsink is doing at least a little bit of good. Normal temperatures for it are ~40 or so under general usage.

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Agent-A01

2017-03-18 21:34

Because they're low power...?

lol he answered his on question. Plus the fact that companies design a product to last only through the warranty period.