EK Ekwb EK-M.2 NVMe Aluminum SSD M.2 2280 Heat Sink

Okay, so it won't make your M.2 drive faster or have more space. Those are really the only things more you could ask for. BUT, this little heatsink is pretty cool - haha get it?! Really though. It looks very nice inside the case and keeps my M.2 Samsung 950 Pro about 10-12 degrees cooler on average. I wasn't exactly super worried about the temps in the mid-high 40s, but temps in the mid 30s is better :) Installation was easy enough. Power down, remove M.2 drive, cut the thermal pads to length, add thermal pad and backplate, thermal pad and heatsink, clamp together, re-install drive and boot up. I will say the clamps were very tight. Just make sure you don't manhandle the heatsink while trying to get the clamps on to the point you break your drive in half. Eventually got them on, and clearly didn't break my drive or I wouldn't be typing this right now cause it's my boot/OS drive. Note, on my motherboard - Asus ROG Maximus VIII Gene, I had to move the GPU to the x8 slot to be able to see the drive/heatsink. That said, my GPU performance is exactly the same and has not suffered by not using the x16 slot. I didn't check to see whether it would still fit in the x16 slot over the drive w/heatsink - because I like how it looks! Most other motherboards won't have this issue, but as this is an mATX in a pretty small case, I ran with it. Works great, looks great. TIP: don't install the backplate all the way to the far end (where the screw goes) or you'll have a hard time reinstalling the drive. The backplate has a cutout to go around the motherboard standoff, but you need to give it an extra couple millimeters for easiest re-installation.

My M.2 slot is right under my GPU. So it gets very little air flow and has what is essentially a large, hot chunk of metal (gpu heat sink) right above it. So it was not uncommon for my 960 Pro to be in the 70s-80s idle and push 100 under any kind of load. It was regularly mid 90's even under light use. I didn't think this would do much since the fins on it still wouldn't get much are flow over them so I dragged my feet getting this. That was a mistake. It took my temps down to low-mid 60s for idle and low 70's under load. It dropped my load temps by almost 30 degrees! Way more than I expected. If you have temp problems for your NVME drive give this a shot. It's very cheap, pretty easy to install, and will likely solve your problem. Couple of notes. I did take the all the labels off the drive so the thermal pad could make direct contact with the chips. It might not work as well if you leave the labels on to protect your warranty. I never warranty drives for data security/privacy reasons so I peeled them off but if you do something to keep in mind. It was also a bit of a pain to get the clips on but not that bad. How easy it is to get the clips on probably varies from drive to drive though.

Lowers the temperature of the drive a decent bit, but the lack of instructions and the amount of pressure that needs to be applied for the clips to secure is a bit sketchy. I actually double checked with a video to make sure I installed it right. Not hard to install just kinda stressful as the m.2 drives are small, expensive and seem delicate. That said, it works, looks great, and I haven't had any issues and already bought another for my new drive.

Got this for my two Samsung 960 pro drives, and they work ok. To get the hardcore best performance, you'd need to remove the stickers that cover the memory modules on the stick, but I don't want to do that just in case I want to sell the drives in the future. I don't think a 1mm sticker is going to make much of a difference though. EK always makes high quality stuff, and this isn't different. They come with two aluminum pieces, a couple thermal pads, and 2 clip brackets. It can be a bitch to get them on by it once you do it's completely solid and won't move at all. Just cut the thermal pads to length, sandwich the aluminum pieces, and then proceed to squeeze as hard as you can to get the damn clips on lol. It can be a little difficult. I have my two nvme drives mounted in my Asus Rampage VI Extreme in a little M.2 dimm stick that sits right in between the ram and the 24 pin power cable on the upper right side of the board. It's a great way to mount m.2 drives so they aren't sticking straight up. I was worried that these would make the drives too thick to fit, but they just BARELY fit on both sides. The Rampage VI Extreme has 3 m.2 mounting spots, the two in the dimm stick, and one underneath the plastic body horizontal inbetween the pcie slots. I haven't checked to see if it would fit under that, but with the amount of height this adds, I'd be surprised if it fits. I will try, and edit my review if it does. Performance wise, if you're adding heats sinks to your nvme modules you're probably a little ocd and psycho on your computer builds lol, you totally don't need these, they're just fancy bling, but it does reduce temps by a decent little margin. I notice about a 6 degree drop in temps when really stressing the drives in synthetic benchmarks. You probably wouldn't ever have this happen or stress the drives this much in regular usage and I didn't want to stress them too hard with pointless heavy read/write tests that will reduce the life of the drive unnecessarily, but hey it did drop the Temps, & that's all I was looking for. Plus, it makes them look bad ass, which really is the most important thing...right? Cheap enough to be cool (literally and figuratively) if you care about temps THAT much, and make the drives look really cool if you can see them in your case.

El producto llegó como lo específico y no he tenido ningún problema. El único “pero” sería que si varía mucho el tiempo de entrega. Pero la calidad es buena y da una respuesta buena a la velocidad y almacenamiento por el precio.

Compré este disipador porque mi Samsung M.2 970 EVO se calentaba mucho y entraba thermal throttling, alcanzaba mas de 80 grados con algunos juegos y con el CrystalDiskMark al poco de arrancar el benchmark se ponía a 85ºC , siempre hablando de la temperadura del ASIC Driver, la memoria no se calienta tanto. He de decir que no he usado los thermalpads que venian con el disipador y he comprado otros diferentes. He colocado un thermal pad sobre el chip del driver de 0.5mm, otro de 1mm sobre los chips de memoria y otra tira de thermal pad en la parte inferior del modulo. Con esto, he montado el disipador y ha encajado a la perfección con los clips. No podría estar mas contento con los resultados, durante el benchmark, con CDM, no me ha subido de 72º, eso son 13º menos en máximo rendimiento, jugando no paso de los 68ºC y ya no entra en thermal throttling.

I needed to cool my 2 SANDISK 500GB Pro NVME drives. I bought 2 of those coolers. The SANDISK are next to each other on a Startech M.2 to PCI-E card. The coolers fit nicely together and the manual was clear. They are cool now with 30c Celsius idle vs the 43c Celsius idle it was before. I'm very happy with the coolers.

Tout est dans le titre. Je suis passé de 105°C max à 66°C max en bench avec CrystalDiskMark (4x 64Go), voir les deux captures d'écran. J'ai un Samsung 970 Evo Plus en NVMe qui était à nu sur ma carte mère, n'ayant pas un modèle assez récent qui dispose d'office d'un dissipateur thermique. Malgré un ventilateur qui souffle quasiment directement dessus, pas moyen de le maintenir dans une zone confortable une fois qu'il y avait beaucoup de read/writes. J'osais même pas mettre mes jeux sur le SSD de peur qu'il chauffe de trop, alors j'ai acheté ce dissipateur EK car je dispose déjà de plein d'éléments EK dans mon pc et j'ai confiance en cette marque. Visiblement je ne me suis pas trompé sur mon choix ! La seule chose c'est que jamais dans ma vie j'ai pensé que j'allais prendre une heure pour faire un sandwich. C'est tellement serré que j'ai un doute si j'arriverai à libérer le SSD un jour, mais au-moins ça fonctionne super efficacement. Petit conseil, pour le 970 Evo Plus en tout cas, prenez une moitié du thermal pad 1mm et une autre moitié du 0.5mm pour la partie du haut où il y a les puces, car il y a une différence de niveau entre le contrôleur et les puces mémoire. Si on garde le thermal pad de 1mm sur toute la longueur, le sandwich peut même pas être fermé comme c'est légèrement trop épais, et ça ne fait contact que sur la moitié la plus épaisse. De l'autre côté, on peut laisser le 0.5mm sur toute la longueur. Je m'attendais pas à de ci bon résultats. J'ai un peu perdu en Random Reads mais pour 40°C de moins et de la sérénité, je suis prêt à faire l'échange sans problème, puis c'est probablement lié à d'autres facteurs comme Windows tourne sur le disque en même temps.

The small box come with the sponge support to support and prevent the item from damage during shippment .1 x 0.5mm and 1 x1mm thermal pad 2 piece of the top and bottom heatsink , 2 pcs of clip and the instruction manual .