Is this what next-gen SSDs are going to make us do? 😥
Granted, the Samsung 980 Pro is not impossibly hot under load, but it can throttle if pushed too far. Standard heatsinks will do enough to keep that drive chill enough that performance is never affected, but if PCIe 5.0 SSDs really do push the thermal envelope a lot harder, then we might well be up for this sort of extreme cooling., then maybe they're going to need their peak temps dropped by half, too.
Whatever the full story, we're expecting some extra heat in the next generation. And, considering where a motherboard's primary M.2 SSD slot is, there's the potential for some conflict when there's a hot and heavy graphics card installed right next to a next-gen drive. The benchmarks above don't take this GPU thermal uncertainty into account, and certainly having a pair of super-hot components right next to each other isn't a good look.
I can definitely see mobo makers rethinking where they jam their SSD slots going forward if this sort of cooling becomes worthwhile enough to be widely used. Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 . He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others.
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