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**The Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD Heatsink Installation**

I recently encountered an issue with my Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD that I'd like to share with you all. The problem was that the rear retention clip wouldn't fit into place, and after some research, I found out that it's due to the thickness of the two aluminum bits on the back of the SSD.

**The Problem**

According to the video I watched on YouTube, taking off the stickers from the thermal pad can make a slightly better contact with the heatsink. However, I don't debate with this fact, as taking off the stickers would actually void the warranty. In my opinion, it's not worth it. So, I decided to take a different approach.

**The Solution**

To solve the problem, I had to cut the thicker bit of thermal pad in half and use the thinner thermal pad on the back of the memory modules. This allowed me to get the rear retention clip to fit into place. It was a bit of an infuriating process, but it's done now.

**The Results**

Now that the heatsink is installed, I'm pleased to report that temperatures have dropped significantly. The temperatures dropped by at least 10 degrees Celsius, which is quite a significant improvement. In fact, the drive didn't even reach its maximum temperature of 63 degrees Celsius without the heatsink. It took ages to get there with the heatsink in place.

**Thermal Performance**

In my tests, I found that the heatsink makes a very big difference in terms of thermal performance. However, it doesn't seem to have an actual performance increase. This is because in my test, I didn't run into actual thermal throttling. If you do suffer from thermal throttling, this heatsink would help and permit a performance increase.

**Conclusion**

Overall, the Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD heatsink is a great addition to any system. It's cheap, it looks amazing, and it can make a big difference in terms of thermal performance. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants their components to run cooler.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ennvme SSDs really are very impressive they're tiny and they're super fast but they do have one slight issue well two issues but putting the issue of price aside the problem is they do get very hot which can sometimes lead to throttling which might be a concern for some consumers but EK might have a solution to this problem today I'm gonna be reviewing the ek SSD heatsink which is a pretty simple product it's basically two little bits of aluminium that you clip on to an nvme and not too SSD to keep those temperatures in check the SSD that I'm going to be using today is a samsung 960 evil it's not their flagship SSD and it's actually not known ound for having heating issues but it still does get pretty toasty first I had to establish a baseline I had to see how hot the 960 Evo got without any help and this was I wasn't quite sure how to do this because I didn't know what SSD benchmarking suite to use firstly I found out the PC mark had a long-term kind of endurance test for SSDs which takes about two to three hours to complete and it puts it just it puts the SSD completely through its paces the problem with this bit of software are those that you have to pay quite a lot of money for it and I'm it's a bit of software I'm gonna use once and that's it so I thought no let me find something else let me use crystal work the problem with crystal mark though is that it's quite a short test it does test the actual speed of the SSDs but it doesn't ever push them very hard for a very long time except if you put nine test cycles on a 32 gig file size which means that you're essentially writing and reading pretty much the capacity of the SSD several times through the course of the test so I thought this would be quite a good way to test the performance of the ego during my my benchmark test it reached 63 degrees Celsius which isn't super hot but it might be a bit hotter than you want and according to Crystal mark that is in the red zone I didn't really see any throttling though I saw what I thought was throttling but once I redid the test with the heatsink on the test scores were pretty much the same even with the lower temperatures so it obviously wasn't throttling it was just the drive dealing with large and file sizes more slowly yes so after I did the baseline test I decided to put on the heatsink and now having established my baseline I had to go through the hellish process installing the SSD heatsink on on my end to drive so it comes with two thicknesses of thermal pad as 0.5 millimeter 1 and and a 1 millimeter one so the 1 millimeter one goes on top and the 0.5 on the bottom now just as a bit of a point of reference here I'm not actually going to take the stickers off I see that there is a video on YouTube that weather where the the maker of the video says that you should take off the stickers because then the thermal pad makes makes slightly better a better contact well I don't I don't debate with that fact the thing is though that if you do take the stickers off the SSD it actually voids the warranty and I don't think that's worth it I died I think slightly better thermal pad contact as supposed to an intact warranty from from Samsung is isn't a particularly good trade-off so that was just an infuriating process from hell to get that on but it's it's on now I don't know if I'm broken the drive in the process or not let me see if that's properly in focus I don't actually think he is there we go so the issue was that the rear retention clip wasn't going on it didn't it didn't fit into place because the SSD with the two bits of of aluminium it was too thick so you can actually see I've scratched the heatsink there in the process of trying to get it on and what I ended up having to do was if like I said earlier it comes with two thicknesses of a thermal pad and it's the rear memory chips that are higher than the rest of the SSD so what I had to do was actually cut the thicker bit of thermal pad in half and then use the thinner thermal pad on on the back kind of memory modules because that was what the clip wasn't fitting over hopefully thermally that's not a huge issue but as as far as I'm aware it's not it's not really the memory modules themselves that's the that's the issue when it comes to the heat it's it's the controller so we'll see how much of a difference it makes but just be aware of that because that was really infuriating and I did it Ek doesn't tell you to do this I mean according to the manual and according to the the other video that I saw on the internet it's supposed to just clip on even with the thicker thermal pad on on the top but that didn't work for me at all so that's something to be aware of so now let's get it back in the PC and see how much of a difference it makes I was quite surprised at how well the heatsink worked to be honest the temperatures dropped by quite a lot and not only did it drop a lot it also took the drive a lot longer to reach its maximum temperature with without the heatsink it was almost immediately that the drive hit about 63 degrees Celsius but with the heatsink in place it didn't ever go about 53 degrees Celsius and it took ages to get to that point so I think thermally it makes a very big difference and I think with that it's time to draw a conclusion from this test the heatsink does work really well it drops the temperatures of the drive by at least 10 degrees Celsius which is fairly significant although it doesn't have an actual performance increase but the only reason that it doesn't is because in my tests I didn't run into actual thermal throttling so I think if you have an even heavier load and you do normally suffer from thermal throttling this heatsink would help and it would permit but provide an actual performance increase although my test was quite heavy and I can't imagine many consumers running into a situation where they're gonna where they're gonna read and write more information and push the SSD any harder than that so I think when it comes to an actual throttling point of view the SSD isn't strictly necessary but it is always nice to have components run cooler the SSD heatsink is also very cheap so why not why not have your SSD run cooler and it looks amazing it's available in two variations there's the one that I have which is just kind of the plain black with the nickel ek logo and there's also a nickel-plated one which is a tiny bit more expensive both of them look fantastic though and I think for the amount that they cost it's pretty easy to give them a hearty recommendation anyway with that thank you very much for watching the video if you liked this video do going to the channel like it and comment with some suggestions for future videos you'd like to see thank you very much for watching goodbyenvme SSDs really are very impressive they're tiny and they're super fast but they do have one slight issue well two issues but putting the issue of price aside the problem is they do get very hot which can sometimes lead to throttling which might be a concern for some consumers but EK might have a solution to this problem today I'm gonna be reviewing the ek SSD heatsink which is a pretty simple product it's basically two little bits of aluminium that you clip on to an nvme and not too SSD to keep those temperatures in check the SSD that I'm going to be using today is a samsung 960 evil it's not their flagship SSD and it's actually not known ound for having heating issues but it still does get pretty toasty first I had to establish a baseline I had to see how hot the 960 Evo got without any help and this was I wasn't quite sure how to do this because I didn't know what SSD benchmarking suite to use firstly I found out the PC mark had a long-term kind of endurance test for SSDs which takes about two to three hours to complete and it puts it just it puts the SSD completely through its paces the problem with this bit of software are those that you have to pay quite a lot of money for it and I'm it's a bit of software I'm gonna use once and that's it so I thought no let me find something else let me use crystal work the problem with crystal mark though is that it's quite a short test it does test the actual speed of the SSDs but it doesn't ever push them very hard for a very long time except if you put nine test cycles on a 32 gig file size which means that you're essentially writing and reading pretty much the capacity of the SSD several times through the course of the test so I thought this would be quite a good way to test the performance of the ego during my my benchmark test it reached 63 degrees Celsius which isn't super hot but it might be a bit hotter than you want and according to Crystal mark that is in the red zone I didn't really see any throttling though I saw what I thought was throttling but once I redid the test with the heatsink on the test scores were pretty much the same even with the lower temperatures so it obviously wasn't throttling it was just the drive dealing with large and file sizes more slowly yes so after I did the baseline test I decided to put on the heatsink and now having established my baseline I had to go through the hellish process installing the SSD heatsink on on my end to drive so it comes with two thicknesses of thermal pad as 0.5 millimeter 1 and and a 1 millimeter one so the 1 millimeter one goes on top and the 0.5 on the bottom now just as a bit of a point of reference here I'm not actually going to take the stickers off I see that there is a video on YouTube that weather where the the maker of the video says that you should take off the stickers because then the thermal pad makes makes slightly better a better contact well I don't I don't debate with that fact the thing is though that if you do take the stickers off the SSD it actually voids the warranty and I don't think that's worth it I died I think slightly better thermal pad contact as supposed to an intact warranty from from Samsung is isn't a particularly good trade-off so that was just an infuriating process from hell to get that on but it's it's on now I don't know if I'm broken the drive in the process or not let me see if that's properly in focus I don't actually think he is there we go so the issue was that the rear retention clip wasn't going on it didn't it didn't fit into place because the SSD with the two bits of of aluminium it was too thick so you can actually see I've scratched the heatsink there in the process of trying to get it on and what I ended up having to do was if like I said earlier it comes with two thicknesses of a thermal pad and it's the rear memory chips that are higher than the rest of the SSD so what I had to do was actually cut the thicker bit of thermal pad in half and then use the thinner thermal pad on on the back kind of memory modules because that was what the clip wasn't fitting over hopefully thermally that's not a huge issue but as as far as I'm aware it's not it's not really the memory modules themselves that's the that's the issue when it comes to the heat it's it's the controller so we'll see how much of a difference it makes but just be aware of that because that was really infuriating and I did it Ek doesn't tell you to do this I mean according to the manual and according to the the other video that I saw on the internet it's supposed to just clip on even with the thicker thermal pad on on the top but that didn't work for me at all so that's something to be aware of so now let's get it back in the PC and see how much of a difference it makes I was quite surprised at how well the heatsink worked to be honest the temperatures dropped by quite a lot and not only did it drop a lot it also took the drive a lot longer to reach its maximum temperature with without the heatsink it was almost immediately that the drive hit about 63 degrees Celsius but with the heatsink in place it didn't ever go about 53 degrees Celsius and it took ages to get to that point so I think thermally it makes a very big difference and I think with that it's time to draw a conclusion from this test the heatsink does work really well it drops the temperatures of the drive by at least 10 degrees Celsius which is fairly significant although it doesn't have an actual performance increase but the only reason that it doesn't is because in my tests I didn't run into actual thermal throttling so I think if you have an even heavier load and you do normally suffer from thermal throttling this heatsink would help and it would permit but provide an actual performance increase although my test was quite heavy and I can't imagine many consumers running into a situation where they're gonna where they're gonna read and write more information and push the SSD any harder than that so I think when it comes to an actual throttling point of view the SSD isn't strictly necessary but it is always nice to have components run cooler the SSD heatsink is also very cheap so why not why not have your SSD run cooler and it looks amazing it's available in two variations there's the one that I have which is just kind of the plain black with the nickel ek logo and there's also a nickel-plated one which is a tiny bit more expensive both of them look fantastic though and I think for the amount that they cost it's pretty easy to give them a hearty recommendation anyway with that thank you very much for watching the video if you liked this video do going to the channel like it and comment with some suggestions for future videos you'd like to see thank you very much for watching goodbye