EK Water Blockscompatible EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink - grün

My Samsung 970 Pro M2 was idle at 60C and under load sometimes 70-75C. I bought this, easy installation but remember this because you will find it difficult to close the clips. On a 970 Pro use the 0.5 pad for the two large chips and 1.0 for the other end of the SSD, the two chips are higher than the rest, and use the 0.5 on the bottom and it will clip together easily and completely level.Now idle at 47C and under full load never exceeds 55C.Excellent product, and looks pretty good too!

the cooling effect is just average. I am still getting 50+ deg C when the system is running idle.the surface on the contacting side is not smooth, i.e. many visible scratches.the thermal paste/strip is of average quality.Considering the above points I would say the price is not worth it.

Arrived very quickly, well packed and as described. Only a small item, but works a treat to bring temps down.

Works as advertised and looks a lot better than having an ugly green pcb on my beautiful black motherboard. Fitting was easy with my Toshiba XG3 512Gb SSD as it's single sided, do not attempt to use this with double sided!

rubbish does not come with thermal pads now I have to order that

Keeps the NVNME nice and chill

-10 degrees Celsius, stable at 50c full load

The heatsink nicely fit with Samsung EVO 250GB ( Samsung (MZ-V6E250BW) 250GB EVO PCI Express 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive ). I have pealed the paper stickers and left the copper plate at the back of the drive. Just make sure, you the stand of of the socket fits in the cut off of the heat sink back plate.The drive on its own, Even plugged in without any partition at idle, the controller runs at 50C (nvme-cli in linux) and it is indeed hot on touching. Running a benchmark in gnome-disk utility peaked the temp of the controller over 70C immediately. Attaching a heat sink did helped (stripped stickers from the drive), it is in middle 30s on idle and the heat up under load is at least slowed down. It took some minutes to warm up to about 60C. There was no direct air flow on the heatsink while testing and the case was opened for finger-touch-temp tests :-) I think, in normal operation, you probably don't stress the drive for that long period to warm up, so the heat sinks helps.And it looks cool on a black motherboard :-)