Aurora R12, WD BLACK SN850, heatsink

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@Hambone69 wrote:

1. I have an Aurora R12 that came with a 512GB NVMe SSD. I’m looking to upgrade to a WD BLACK SN850 2TB NVMe SSD.

2. However, I have read that they run hot.

3. So does the motherboard on the Aurora R12 have a built-in heatsink for the NVMe SSD?

4. Or if it doesn’t, is there enough room between the GPU and where the NVMe SSD will sit for me to get the SSD with a built-in heatsink on it. 

Thanks!

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1. OK

2. Yes, all the 4x4 SSD run a little hot. The air around them cools-them (just like other parts on the motherboard, like ram-memory DIMMs). If it needed a heatsink to operate properly, WD would have pre-installed one.

3. No.

4. After you get it installed, you tell us ... and we will go from there.

I can tell you that cool air flowing across the bare hot chips cools SSDs (even 4x4 ones) pretty good. Also, they have a fairly-high allowable operating temperature. Not as high as CPU/GPU, but it is high.