How to cool M2 NVME SSDs in a laptop?
Hello. How do you cool M2 NVME SSDs in a laptop?
My gaming laptop has these pads between the motherboard and the M.2 NVME SSD: a thicker strip and a thinner one. The motherboard has slight differences in height below the SSD. Does anyone know what this is for and what it's called? Is it for cooling the SSD? Because I want to get a second M.2 NVME SSD for the second slot.
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PCIe 3.0 NVME ssds don’t need much cooling. SATA m.2’s not.
PCIe 4.0 and 5.0, however.
I have PCIe 4.0 installed.
PCIe 4.0 (approx. 7200mb/s read & write 6400mb/s). But how do I cool those in my laptop? There is hardly any room for it. And what are these pads under the SSD? I exclude thermal pads, I think more about shielding to the motherboard. But what’s their name? I’d just order them. Thank you very much.
Can be thermal pads. So motherboard can dissipate pretty good heat with the Dam whole copper.
How do the pads look? If they are white or light gray, they are probably thermal pads.
You could also try to connect the SSD with thermal pads to the housing.
ssds usually need at most passive cooling, so no fan etc