Do stickers and heatsinks matter for NVMe SSDs? PCIe gen 5 drive testing!
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- In this video I'm showing you how much difference heatsinks and stickers can make to PCIe gen 5 NVME SSDs. For this test I'm running the Seagate Firecuda 540 in the build listed below. I decided to test it in multiple different ways:
1 - In it's standard setup with the motherboard heatsink and sticker
2 - Without the heatsink
3 - Without its stickers but with the heatsink
The results surprised me, with the exception of running it without a heatsink as that just meant it thermally throttled and stopped running as it should have. But removing the stickers didn't make as much difference as I thought it would. For these tests I used Crystal Disk Mark to push the drive to its limits, while also running Cinebench R23 to get the system heat up and HWmonitor to check the temps and performance. I made multiple passes of these tests for each of the variations to be sure I was reaching the limits, though obviously there will be some fluctuation as ambient temps might have changed and you will have to keep in mind that your system setup and environment might be different, but still, I believe it's not worth peeling.
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My bet is that removing the heatsink caused some degradation of the thermal pads and therefore this slightly lower result. Anyway, I think it's fair to say we leave the stickers where they are. Thanks for the test.
Crazy that I wasn’t aware that gen 5 was out already
Yeah there are a few drives appearing
Yep there are a few, they are fast, hot and goddamn expensive and frankly, other than in enterprise or ultra heavy workloads, they dont give you any advantage over good Gen4s.
Awesome video! thank you for all your work. We really do appreciate it.
Thanks for watching
With 30+ years of building my own rigs coupled with a perfectionist streak, I have made my fair share of blunders (some expensive ones too) and have come to the conclusion that sometimes it's best to leave "sleeping dogs lie". I was going to add heat sinks to all my NVMEs across my 3 gaming rigs but decided otherwise.
Thanks for doing these tests so we don't have to. :)
So I'm looking at investing in my machine, in other words, I'm going to be replacing everything but the case and the fans.
The last thing I was pondering, was an NVMe.
Thank you for this video because it actually puts a lot of things to rest, aka paranoid fears.
They are considerably more expensive but from what I've been hearing and reading and seeing, it looks like they're worth their money if you don't take off the stickers in the heat sinks lol
NVMe is great
SSDs be it SATA or NVMe have never been more affordable than nowadays.
4TB can be had for 200bucks or less, not to long ago, that was at best the 2TB price.
I just got me a 990Pro 2TB for the System, swapfile, all the programs and the heavy workloads, as this drives doesnt care what you throw at it, it stays the fastest and most consistent Gen4 NVME.
And for Gaming i got me the Lexar NM790 4TB, which is a beast for the price and puts the cheap crap, like the P3 oder NV1 or NV2 to shame and *3PBW* is also nothing to scoff at. 😊
@@TheProvokedPrawn
Oh yes they are.
If you set up a RAID 0 configuration with 2 NVME SSDs will it take up 4 lanes or 8?
She blinded me with science!
So should I place the adhesive thermal pad on the top and bottom of my SSD?
I switched my nvme drive from my laptop to mobo, will the little white sticky pads work instead of a heatsync
Hoe presteert hij in een PCIE Gen4 slot??????
Did you already make a vid regarding the speed difference between NVME sockets ? With or without GPU? Thanks 🤘
It varies wildly from motherboard to motherboard. Some I've found if you populate all the slots it halves the speed of others, some you can fill them all up and it still runs max speed, some it impacts the GPU lanes. It's impossible to do a general assessment of it I think
Can you please do a review comparison between the Samsung g9 and the g9 oled and if it’s worth upgrading too and if you would ?
If you care about color accuracy, ultrafast pixel response without any blacklevel smearing or ghosting over the entire refreshrange including VRR, nearly infinite contrast and a damn nice HDR experience.
And if you like the ultrawide format, and also the integrated tech thats usually to be found in TVs and have no problem with the connectors all in mini versions, like the design and agree with the pricing...the G9 OLED is one of, maybe even the best OLED in that format, with its only real close rival being the Alienware AW3423DWF.
Monitors Unboxed did test them, maybe go and have a look there.
I thought the same, why don't they remove the stickers? Thanks for solving my doubt!
You're welcome
I replaced the sticker for thermal pad. Stickers has glue so basically it does contain water.
LOL, two of my three laptops are Gen3, while one is Gen4. Whut do I need a Gen5 for!?!
Gen 3 is so slow by comparison 😂👍
@@TheProvokedPrawn You mean like a Bugatti Chiron is faster than a Veyron? After a certain point 'faster' just means its more expensive. I can't tell the difference between Forza 7 played on my Lenovo Legion versus my Razer Blade.
@@WhiskyCardinalWes exactly
How much of a difference heatsink vs non makes
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NSFW SSD at 0:20 and 4:34 xD
"Have a great life" - so dumb.
Ok, guess you're having a bad one then?