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M9z wrote I decided to experiment, I had a heatsink on both boot and game drive. I put the spreader on the game drive and left the boot drive alone, game drive got hotter, I flipped them, and the temps changed again in favor of the heatsink. previously I was getting 34c on both with a heatsink on both, whichever drive I put a heat spreader on all of a sudden jumped by about 10c.

my control group I used was both m.2's with heatsinks registered 34c, same exact stress test using the spreaders registered 44c, using a mix of both heatsink on one and spreader on the other, swapping, then testing again, showed the exact results I expected. A proper heatsink with fins is more effective and most definitely not the same thing as a heat spreader.

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Now remove them both entirely and tell me what temps you get.

In terms of an NVMe SSD, "heatsink" and "heat spreader" are often used to refer to the same type of product- it's a sheet of metal, with or without fins that is supposed to be used to aid cooling. Some don't work, some do, whether they have fins or not. What's important is that the heat source makes contact with the "heat spreader"/"heatsink", again, often used interchangeably in regards to NVMe SSD's.
Whether it's called a heat spreader, or heatsink, it's job is the same.

Although to be fair, yes, aftermarket ones with fins are typically going to be better than those included with motherboards, as they do typically have more surface area.

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M9z wrote I decided to experiment, I had a heatsink on both boot and game drive. I put the spreader on the game drive and left the boot drive alone, game drive got hotter, I flipped them, and the temps changed again in favor of the heatsink. previously I was getting 34c on both with a heatsink on both, whichever drive I put a heat spreader on all of a sudden jumped by about 10c.

my control group I used was both m.2's with heatsinks registered 34c, same exact stress test using the spreaders registered 44c, using a mix of both heatsink on one and spreader on the other, swapping, then testing again, showed the exact results I expected. A proper heatsink with fins is more effective and most definitely not the same thing as a heat spreader.

Click to View Content

https://i.imgur.com/9QOLAfB.png

Now remove them both entirely and tell me what temps you get.

In terms of an NVMe SSD, "heatsink" and "heat spreader" are often used to refer to the same type of product- it's a sheet of metal, with or without fins that is supposed to be used to aid cooling. Some don't work, some do, whether they have fins or not. What's important is that the heat source makes contact with the "heat spreader"/"heatsink", again, often used interchangeably in regards to NVMe SSD's.
Whether it's called a heat spreader, or heatsink, it's job is the same.

Although to be fair, yes, aftermarket ones with fins are typically going to be better than those included with motherboards, as they do typically have more surface area.

I went ahead and removed the heatsinks and thermal pads from both, thankfully I have a roll of thermal pad material lol, and make sure no adhesive or anything stuck, and running plain stock with no other cooling source aside from case airflow resulted in 49-51c average under a 100gb transfer synthetic stress test, I do agree both do something as far as cooling goes, my point was just that a heatsink with fins does more.

@OP your build should still be good regardless of what you decide to go with, as long as it's not a HDD, spinning rust lol

NastyGamingNation wrote Okay since there is so much suggestions. Can someone go on pcpartpicker and build one for me? Cause you all know more then me about this.

21 wrote OP - What exactly are you using the system for? What games are you gonna be playing, what are you streaming?
Also, what monitor(s) are you using with this system?
Will you be overclocking?
I'm assuming your budget is $1800/1850 USD??

NastyGamingNation wrote And who tf is OP?