Aurora R13, NVMe has no heatsink, should I add one?

Dell oem thermal pad for R13

If it fits, why not.

If the primary m.2 is 1tb or less, it really is not necessary as there is enough air flow to keep the temps down.  Now it it is 2tb or more, those run hot and should have heat sink, preferbly one from the manufacturer vs aftermarket. 

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@BrendanXX6 wrote:

1. So, I recently just installed 2TB of storage in my m17 Alienware laptop and got two heatsink plates on Amazon for the installation.

2. After looking at my R13 I notice the NVME looks bare with no heatsink and the temps on the NVME SSD can get as high as 70c, I'm wondering if I should use the extra heatsink plate, I got for my Alienware laptop on the NVME in the R13,

3. or is this specifically for laptops?

 

 

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1. It's a confined laptop with little (if any) air-flow

2. Why smother it? More cool-air flowing over bare chips is also good for cooling parts.

3. Not specifically but you have more air-flow and cooling options with the additional space inside a desktop.

My 2 last SSD's came with factory heatsinks. Due to the read/write speeds of modern drives it is becoming a must for higher end drives to have heat sinks installed.

Its a common thingy on a ssd, but i should not worried about. you can't compare a R13 with a laptop because a R13 have 4 fans, beside of this, a nvme ssd can handle this temperatures easily because it have no moving parts.

As a CNC Engineer in real life, and creating heatsinks and groundplates for Taiko,Lumicks and Prodrive i should worry more about the dram from a R13, i created 4 pull off, push on heatsinks at the end of those sophisticated dram and that saves a 20% temperature wich make more sence then heatsink on a ssd, and technically it isnt a heatsink on you laptop. I never saw a heatsink on top of a ssd in real life, industrial or home use. 

Hiya Vanadiel,

Thats intresting, and i wonder why, i will dig deeper into that heatsinked ssd's, Pretty sure they must be with tolerance 0,02 -0,005. to be honest, i never heard from it, you be the first, thanks.

For noticed, we talk about strips, or sinks?

And wish you a happy new year with love and health.

It's to avoid thermal throttling of the memory modules.

I currently use one of these in my main rig: SN850 

Before I used this one. Do not buy it, it has terrible performance and support: MP600 Core 

It does have an impressive heatsink...

Thats top of the world, impressive about the lay out, heatsinked? I dont know, but it looks like western digital and you knows more then i do about creating heatsinks

Thanks for share this! you have a kudo from me.

And yes, that MP600 have a real heatsink, thanks for showing us that!

I just wonder how Western Digital create that, at one piece and black anodized, the holes are triangle with a R=0,2 and im pretty sure its milled with 2 tools, amazing. I gues its created on a Datron M 35 and a second mill on a NSV serie 102 or a NSX 102.

But i still wonder if its needed...technically its not, better heatsink your dram.

I added on the day it was delivered a 2TB Samsung 980 Pro SSD and binned the HDD I would never use. The 2 TB SSD's are working hard so can run hot. Having looked at the position of the boot SSD right above the GPU I then installed 2 x Sabrent M.2 2280z Rocket SSD Heatsinks.

Easy install and both fitted easily. Boot SSD sits on a little foam pad which needs to be removed and use the screws Sabrent provide, the Dell screws for the SSD's are not long enough once you fit a heatsink.

I have not seen a temp above 37C on either drive so would highly recommend you heatsink both drives.

The top SSD under 2TB you may get away with but the boot SSD is way to close to a powerful hot GPU for my liking. 

Anyway, i installed '' CrystalldiskInfo''  and my standard Micron 3400 showed me 42C, so it showes me what i allready expect.

I will focus further on dram and heatsinks

Oke, thanks for this information. It's intresting about this temperature, i still use the standard ssd from my lovely R13 and never monitored the temperature so i will look for a program for that.

You have a kudo from me.

Hi, that was my question... I just ordered the same one as you, 2x in the Gaming Edition to be fancy, hehe... And I was wondering (Since my new R13 arrives soon), if a Sabrent Rocket will fit on the bottom SSD, the one near the Graphic Card...? Thank you

Hi, yes it will fit. I found it easier to remove the GPU to allow more access, then unscrew the SSD and remove the little thermal pad that the SSD was sat on as you will not need it. When you install the heatsink use the screw provided by Sabrent, because the original one is not long enough for a heatsink.