Hey [H]
Caught the upgrade bug and went down a bit of a rabbit hole. I am building an X570 system with the intent to have a nice quiet and cool solid gaming PC. Right now with my signature rig, the office with my PC is easily 10f-15f hotter during a long gaming session. With summer approaching I decided to build on the 7nm Ryzen 65w processor 3700x to save on heat and energy.
However, the upgrade bug hit bc I am currently sitting with my OS installed on an aging 128gb crucial MX100 and its pretty tight on there. My games are all on a 1TB 850 evo. Upgrade bug means I think I better future proof and get a huge 2TB NVME drive. But seeing many reviews, these things run 100 celcius plus. I am probably better off with an older but cooler 2TB SSD as the base of my build, given the small real world differences between SATA SSD and nvme. Prices right now are nearly equal between good SSD like 860 Evo and an M.2 NVME 970 evo plus or sx8200.
Anyone else notice a huge heat difference between a couple faster NVME drives vs SSDs? In either case, is it even worth changing over to the M.2 nvme interface?
Caught the upgrade bug and went down a bit of a rabbit hole. I am building an X570 system with the intent to have a nice quiet and cool solid gaming PC. Right now with my signature rig, the office with my PC is easily 10f-15f hotter during a long gaming session. With summer approaching I decided to build on the 7nm Ryzen 65w processor 3700x to save on heat and energy.
However, the upgrade bug hit bc I am currently sitting with my OS installed on an aging 128gb crucial MX100 and its pretty tight on there. My games are all on a 1TB 850 evo. Upgrade bug means I think I better future proof and get a huge 2TB NVME drive. But seeing many reviews, these things run 100 celcius plus. I am probably better off with an older but cooler 2TB SSD as the base of my build, given the small real world differences between SATA SSD and nvme. Prices right now are nearly equal between good SSD like 860 Evo and an M.2 NVME 970 evo plus or sx8200.
Anyone else notice a huge heat difference between a couple faster NVME drives vs SSDs? In either case, is it even worth changing over to the M.2 nvme interface?
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