Subj : Re: MSI H97 motherboard q
To   : Barry Martin
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Thu Sep 26 2024 13:36:00

BARRY MARTIN wrote:
> -=> KY MOFFET wrote to ALL <=-
> 
>   KM> Someone gift me an MSI "H97 Gamer 3" board and CPU, supposedly
> 
> 
> 
>   KM> Next step, one would think, is a bank of these, rather than just
>   KM> one. But each NVMe takes away two SATA ports, and they need to be
>   KM> secured so they don't jump out, so there's some engineering yet
>   KM> to do. (Would also be easier to keep cool than when flat on the
>   KM> mainboard.)
> 
> Rig up a small fan to blow air on and under the NVMe?  So off to the
> side, not directly overhead.  ...Might be easier (and safer) to mount a
> fan to the chassis and use a non-conducting tube to direct the air from
> the fan towards the NVMe.

I haven't bothered with special cooling for the NVMe in Silver, tho 
they're both on PCIe cards, and barely get warm to the touch. Haven't 
bothered buying heatsink models either. Haven't seen that it makes a 
lick of difference, but mine don't work all that hard (swapfile, VMs, 
temp and browser cache). But if someone is stressing the drive, like 
some gaming or heavy file transfer.... they do thermal throttling, and 
that's a cue that yep, needs help.

But flat against a heat source doesn't strike me as optimal, no.
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