ASUS ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming Wi-Fi7 Neo Evaluate – SSD Performance & Temperatures

SSD Temperatures

SSD cooling efficiency was good, however with some caveats. Using a single-sided SSD requires the usage of included rubber helps to make sure the SSD would not bow underneath strain and makes good contact with the heatsink above. These do make a noticeable distinction to temperatures. Double-sided SSDs have their undersides cooled in two of the 5 M.2 ports, each of that are PCIe Gen 5-capable. However, you may must pay cautious consideration to the placement of the included decrease thermal pads. These did not line up with the underside parts on our PCIe Gen 5 SSD and in consequence the height temperature in each slots topped 80°C and noticed our SSD throttle.

Thankfully adjusting the pads to your SSD is straightforward and made an enormous distinction, seeing that peak temperature fall to simply 73°C within the high slot and 76°C within the decrease slot. This was with little to no airflow over the M.2 heatsinks in our worst case state of affairs. Many newer PCIe Gen 5 SSDs are single-sided, so will not probably undergo this downside. Our PCIe Gen 4 SSD was stored a lot cool sufficient, though we have seen decrease temperatures. The backside slot proved higher right here, however given the decrease heatsink is blocked by your graphics card, the precedence in each case ought to be the highest M.2 port, which is at all times accessible.

PCIe Gen 4 Performance (Samsung 990 Pro)

PCIe Gen 5 Performance (Team Group T-Force Z540)