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  • Dragonstongue - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    motherboard makers take note...this is a PROPER "heatshield" like design, yes it is larger but at least it likely actually HELPS temperatures rather than just being fud to "upsell" your design choice...something like this would work quite nice if they moved the m.2/u.2 sockets to a place not impeded by much of anything in today's modern cases that pretty much get rid of excess cables and such.

    place right behind the spot normally taken up by the sata connectors every mobo I have seen this is a very empty spot rather than trying to cram it under gpu/soundcard/cpu sockets, amd sure if they did a decent job with a style of interposer than can pretty much put the "slot" wherever they want, at least this way here the gpu-cpu etc is not at all impeded by something else preventing full population of pci-e usable space.

    seems like a slick design, I think they probably could have done a full "flower" type effect so the fins are as wide open as possible instead of having looks like ~1/3 to 1/4 of the fins being "bent over" the heatpipe, they could have used solder or whatever likely would have increased ambient ability to release the heat (passive) instead of needing potential more "semi-active" either way probably is WAY better than every motherboard that uses a heatsheild that promises but never delivers this and for a "bare" m.2/u/2 likely will help quite a bit just the same.

    likely it will not be "bargain friendly" guessing $20-$40 USD per...
  • dromoxen - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    Surely this needs a small pump and reservoir , maybe a fan too?
  • MadAd - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    Two fans, push pull.
  • EnzoFX - Tuesday, May 29, 2018 - link

    Don't forget RGB.
  • nevcairiel - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    I can see the reason for the placement being PCIe routing.
  • edzieba - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    A 'proper' heatsink, but a product that has as much reason to exist as RAMsinks*: none at all. It is a very shiny heatsink, but merely cosmetic in function.

    *except for DDR2 FBDIMMS, that never made their way to consumer machines. Likewise, the only NVME m.2 SSD that had any need for a heatsink was the PM871, because it was intended for OEMs to reflash the firmware with the correct throttling values (and to be thermally linked to the chassis oft he machine it was to be integrated with), which consumers buying the OEM drive did not do.
  • darckhart - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    hilarious. U.2 ftw
  • Death666Angel - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    Totally different use case.
  • darckhart - Monday, May 28, 2018 - link

    only if size is your constraint... which with this, clearly it isn't.
  • Death666Angel - Wednesday, May 30, 2018 - link

    Aesthetics might be another one. And it is one thing to have a constrution like this on a motherboard that is lower than the height of the CPU cooler and graphics card and within the size of the motherboard dimensions. But it is another to have a U.2 2.5" SSD around that you have to put somewhere by screwing or glueing it in place. I can think of many cases where I would have no trouble using this M.2+heatsink combination, but where U.2+2.5" would give me a slight headache. Especially since this is mostly cosmetic since throttling usually just happens after 100s of GBs of tranfers.
  • boozed - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    Hmm.

    Can't wait to see the sovereign vestment translucence index for this one.
  • jordanclock - Thursday, May 24, 2018 - link

    I was going to make a joke about m.2 water blocks but then...

    https://modmymods.com/ram-hdd-ssd-blocks/m-2-ssd-b...
  • The_Assimilator - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    I thought it wasn't possible to be disappointed by humankind any more than this article has, but your link did the job.
  • qlum - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    To be fair this would mostly be for looks which can also be a big part in why you want a open loop.
  • Breame - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link

    What I don't understand is why motherboard manufacturers don't just add vertical slots for M.2. This would completely mitigate all the "This pointless heatsink just keeps the heat in" or "My GPU is making my M.2 SSD hot" talk.

    Didn't they experiment with this on X99 boards? Why didn't this take off?

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