Subj : MSI H97 motherboard q
To   : Ky Moffet
From : Barry Martin
Date : Fri Sep 27 2024 07:47:00


Hi Ky!

 >   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.
 KM> I haven't bothered with special cooling for the NVMe in Silver,
 KM> tho they're both on PCIe cards, and barely get warm to the touch.
 KM> Haven't bothered buying heatsink models either. Haven't seen that
 KM> it makes a lick of difference, but mine don't work all that hard
 KM> (swapfile, VMs, temp and browser cache). But if someone is
 KM> stressing the drive, like some gaming or heavy file transfer....
 KM> they do thermal throttling, and that's a cue that yep, needs
 KM> help.
 
When I installed the NVMe in this computer I didn't add any extra 
cooling mechanisms.  Possibly came with its own heatsink - I don't 
recall.  Seems to be running sufficient cool: psensor saying 98øF.  I do
try to get reasonable airflow inside my computers so that might help in 
the cooling.  Also, it generally sits there bored, its main function to
supply storage for the Virtual Machines.


 KM> But flat against a heat source doesn't strike me as optimal, no.
 
Maybe the simple blowing the air around is sufficient. As I recall the 
NVMe is not mounted over anything creating a lot of heat.  Sure, the 
electronics creates some heat, but the fractional-watt of heat is easily
blown away, unlike the amount of heat produced by CPUs.

I sort of did heat experiments on my Raspberry Pi's over time.  Poor
thing overheating: add the heat sinks: ahh!  ...Some time later after
upgrades, more software being worked one, etc., "I'm starting to sweat
again!"  Add a fan -- "thank you!".  Fan doesn't have to move the air
all that quickly, just move it like a barely-perceptible breeze.


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