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"$59.99 - $7 when you 'clip' the coupon on the product page = $42.99"
PNY gave me 30-40C in temperature. This Samsung 970 gives me 40-55C.
We're already below the $/TB of desktop mechanical drives with a significant boost in performance.
What you'll probably see is larger drives replacing the baseline 1TB price point as smaller 128GB and 256GB drives get phased out.
You're right I'm definitely being OCD on it
We're already below the $/TB of desktop mechanical drives with a significant boost in performance.
What you'll probably see is larger drives replacing the baseline 1TB price point as smaller 128GB and 256GB drives get phased out.
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PNY gave me 30-40C in temperature. This Samsung 970 gives me 40-55C.
I can vouch for this too the samsung 970 does run hot to the point where I got worried about it and did a ton of online research to convince myself it was going to be okay
Opinions vary on the internet but a few takeaway points I came up with after hours of research (not saying I'm an expert by any means, if someone knows more by all means please step in and correct me so I and everyone else will know better
- the "bigger", "main" part of the drive "likes to be hot" to a certain degree.. the "controller" part of the drive prefers lower temps... apparently heatsinks just try to cool off the entire m2 drive .. plus if you decide to get a heatsink you really should check the heatsink's measurements vs the motherboard not all heatsinks fit all MB's apparently .. there's some debate as to whether heatsinks help or are necessary
- my theory is that big large graphics cards that generate lots of heat can drive up the temp too .. the first samsung 970 plus I grabbed tends to stay at 42 degrees in my daughter's desktop PC but the video card in it is a more "humble" one that doesn't even need to have a power supply cable connected to it and (obviously) draws less electrical power.. my son's desktop PC has a much larger video card with an 8 pin power supply and the big fans that go with it blowing out hot air, and the samsung 970 evo plus in that stays around 48 to 53 degrees all the time which leads me to my next point
- at first you might want to just go ahead and use the heatsink that comes standard with some motherboards for the m2 drive like I did.. with some MB's though they do that because the m2 slot is directly under the video/graphics card which tends to drive heat to it.. some people on the net have actually reported lower temps when they move the samsung 970 evo to the drive without the heatsink but it's further away from the video card (not in my son's desktop PC build's case though temp stayed the same even when relocated see below )
- there are people who feel that temps in the high 40's to low 50's are perfectly fine and you only need to worry if it routinely goes above 70 degrees which is the "maximum safe operating temp" apparently and even then the m2 drive will (apparently) throttle itself down to a lower speed to try and cool itself off but of course you'll take a performance hit which isn't the best possible outcome
- strangely enough when I tried stress-testing the samsung 970 evo plus by installing and playing Batman Arkham Knight on it after relocating it to the non heatsink m2 port it did not make much of a difference temp wise, tended to hover around 53 degrees, the same temp the samsung sits at when it's doing nothing at times.. on the other hand one might argue an older game like Batman Arkham Knight isn't much of a stress test
- when used as a Windows 11 drive in my daughter's desktop PC I noticed the temp rose at most from 40 to 42 degrees even when my daughter was multitasking on the PC (playing a game and talking to friends online though I should note I have her install and run the games on a different drive other than the samsung) .. not sure if Windows demands less such that the samsung runs cooler compared to gaming?
- the humble crucial P3 m2 drive (I say humble because no DRAM but that';s a whole another debate right there as to whether you need DRAM
- there are many reports online about the samsung 970 evo plus just plain running hot compared to other m2 drives .. so you'll have to decide on your own if you're okay with that... given the low price and how various online reviewers claim it's a great m2 drive I've decided to risk it and just make it the Windows 11 boot drive in all my desktop PC's (my son's not in a position for me to upgrade him to Win 11 yet but will be doing so later on when he's on winter break from school and will make the samsung 970 evo the new Win 11 boot drive during a clean install)
I know it's not the same thing here so it's just a fyi frame of reference on what's possible
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Opinions vary on the internet but a few takeaway points I came up with after hours of research (not saying I'm an expert by any means, if someone knows more by all means please step in and correct me so I and everyone else will know better
- the "bigger", "main" part of the drive "likes to be hot" to a certain degree.. the "controller" part of the drive prefers lower temps... apparently heatsinks just try to cool off the entire m2 drive .. plus if you decide to get a heatsink you really should check the heatsink's measurements vs the motherboard not all heatsinks fit all MB's apparently .. there's some debate as to whether heatsinks help or are necessary
- my theory is that big large graphics cards that generate lots of heat can drive up the temp too .. the first samsung 970 plus I grabbed tends to stay at 42 degrees in my daughter's desktop PC but the video card in it is a more "humble" one that doesn't even need to have a power supply cable connected to it and (obviously) draws less electrical power.. my son's desktop PC has a much larger video card with an 8 pin power supply and the big fans that go with it blowing out hot air, and the samsung 970 evo plus in that stays around 48 to 53 degrees all the time which leads me to my next point
- at first you might want to just go ahead and use the heatsink that comes standard with some motherboards for the m2 drive like I did.. with some MB's though they do that because the m2 slot is directly under the video/graphics card which tends to drive heat to it.. some people on the net have actually reported lower temps when they move the samsung 970 evo to the drive without the heatsink but it's further away from the video card (not in my son's desktop PC build's case though temp stayed the same even when relocated see below )
- there are people who feel that temps in the high 40's to low 50's are perfectly fine and you only need to worry if it routinely goes above 70 degrees which is the "maximum safe operating temp" apparently and even then the m2 drive will (apparently) throttle itself down to a lower speed to try and cool itself off but of course you'll take a performance hit which isn't the best possible outcome
- strangely enough when I tried stress-testing the samsung 970 evo plus by installing and playing Batman Arkham Knight on it after relocating it to the non heatsink m2 port it did not make much of a difference temp wise, tended to hover around 53 degrees, the same temp the samsung sits at when it's doing nothing at times.. on the other hand one might argue an older game like Batman Arkham Knight isn't much of a stress test
- when used as a Windows 11 drive in my daughter's desktop PC I noticed the temp rose at most from 40 to 42 degrees even when my daughter was multitasking on the PC (playing a game and talking to friends online though I should note I have her install and run the games on a different drive other than the samsung) .. not sure if Windows demands less such that the samsung runs cooler compared to gaming?
- the humble crucial P3 m2 drive (I say humble because no DRAM but that';s a whole another debate right there as to whether you need DRAM
- there are many reports online about the samsung 970 evo plus just plain running hot compared to other m2 drives .. so you'll have to decide on your own if you're okay with that... given the low price and how various online reviewers claim it's a great m2 drive I've decided to risk it and just make it the Windows 11 boot drive in all my desktop PC's (my son's not in a position for me to upgrade him to Win 11 yet but will be doing so later on when he's on winter break from school and will make the samsung 970 evo the new Win 11 boot drive during a clean install)
This drive requires a 0.5mm thick thermal pad over the NAND chips (the big black chips at the end of the board)
and a 1mm thick thermal pad over the rest of the board (DRAM and Controller the the connecting end)L
Or else the heatsink/heatshim/will not make any contact with the controller or the DRAM
and a 1mm thick thermal pad over the rest of the board (DRAM and Controller the the connecting end)L
Or else the heatsink/heatshim/will not make any contact with the controller or the DRAM
It does lower the temperature by 3 to 5 C.
But your time without the item as well as time spent looking for better deals should be accounted for too.
Is $10-$20 worth waiting over a month?
It does lower the temperature by 3 to 5 C.
However, I am surprised it's still that high in your desktop.. what kind of heatsink are you using? Maybe you can fit one with longer fins.
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