TeamGroup FIXES PCIE 5 SSD COOLING! T-Force Dark AirFlow I M.2 Heatsink Review

[@ScottGrammer]

An NVMe cooler nearly identical to that one has been for sale on Ali Express for some time now. I bought one for $7, and it has been keeping the swap drive on my video editing machine cool for over a year now. Love it!

[@PlayingItWrong]

I still feel like big the passive ones like the thermalright hr-10 are what I would choose, but it'd depend on good case airflow.

[@CrazyTechLab]

@@PlayingItWrong Yeah exactly. They can be quite large too. This is relatively small especially compared to the MSI Frozr model I looked at recently. It can be fine tuned to be silent which is the important part though.

[@PlayingItWrong]

@@CrazyTechLab it's a damn shame the m.2 standard doesn't include fan power delivery, because having a cable across the motherboard is another issue.

[@CrazyTechLab]

@PlayingItWrong That’s a very good point actually.

[@pvdgucht]

Maybe we should be getting more efficient controllers using more advanced manufacturing nodes like TSM 3NM improved. Instead of needing crazy cooling like this idk 🤷‍♂️

[@dumindunilantha9078]

This is match the Tomahawk blackout theme nicely. Can this cooler be used for the Crucial T705 as well?

[@CrazyTechLab]

Yeah they’re pretty much the same SSD underneath anyway.

[@warth-media]

There is a much better solution for fan speed, which uses a very cool, open-source software called FanControl. It can control any fan to any temperature sensor you have and also supports zero RPM mode.

[@brookerobertson2951]

There's a certain type of person who buys things like this for their computer. The same type of person that puts extra chrome trim on their car. Lol

[@ScottGrammer]

Not really. Fast drives run hot, and when they get hot they slow down.

[@dumindunilantha9078]

Need to remove or not the thermal pad that comes with the motherboard before adding this to the PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot?

[@CrazyTechLab]

Depends if it fits but generally yes you do not need any additional pads or heatsinks being involed. You won't see any benefit

[@dumindunilantha9078]

@@CrazyTechLab I am asking this because of a missing thermal pad. If need to RMA the motherboard, will it cause any problems?

[@TheONE10X]

I have the Acidalie M.2 SSD heatsink (passive cooler) and it is legit. I wouldn't want yet another fan going unless I had to.

[@brookerobertson2951]

Simple heat sink and some decent airflow as more than adequate. If you think you need something like this you have bigger problems.

[@CrazyTechLab]

@brookerobertson2951 Sadly not for sustained workloads on PCIe SSDs unfortunately. Even with large motherboard heatsinks they can throttle quite quickly

[@wellallnasib]

I have only one question who actually needs speed like this and for what purpose ? Do people just run synthetic tests just like Cinebench for CPU. As far as I remember MS said that Gen3 speed will be enough for Microsoft DirectStroage and I guess only 2 games have it and loads 200-600 millisecond faster.

[@gertjanvandermeij4265]

4:31 ..... Most often these 5.0 SSD's are UNDER your GPU !, So no place to put an special (useless) cooler on it ! ( you see it at 13:25 )

[@CrazyTechLab]

That slot is above your graphics card on this motherboard. Most motherboards have at least one PCIe5 M.2 slot above the graphics card

[@svingarm9283]

That's why the smart ones use AIO cooling :) It doesn't take up much space and cools superbly

[@gertjanvandermeij4265]

0:24 ..... People can that same SSD ( from another brand ) for just 120 bucks ! And DON'T need active (loud) cooling !

[@CrazyTechLab]

The cooling can easily be made silent. You should watch the video.

[@wimbrinkman6995]

So the avarage PC user can better get the 990 pro.....

[@CrazyTechLab]

It's a good SSD, but PCIe 5 is mainly about sequential speeds.