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Jabberwocky79 That's pretty dang cool! And the one thing I love about PC modding – there's pretty much a solution to every scenario. Reply
Notton My only concern is the adapter sliding out just enough that the SSD comes in contact with the GPU heatsink. Reply
flytrap23 I'm not sure I want to put an SSD under the hottest component on the system. Reply
ezst036 Its a good design. Some years back though a few motherboards that had m.2 slots vertical hit the market but it never took off in popularity. I can see the fragility question with vertical for sure but it does use space better where traditional placement is really wasteful. Traditionally flat placement can be a wash in a lot of areas, but on the real estate of a motherboard where typically PCIe slots would be placed, m.2 slots are the most wasteful of all in removing PCIe slots in their place by the manufacturer. Reply
alrighty_then Nice solution. I have a perfectly good PC with ample memory and graphics but reading about motherboard slots gets me thinking about that NEXT computer… So fun. 🙂 Reply
XTwizted flytrap23 said: I'm not sure I want to put an SSD under the hottest component on the system. My motherboard has spots for 5 m.2 drives all over. I know it's made for it but there are 3 that are under the gpu. I haven't had any issues with them thermal throttling. Reply
XTwizted Notton said: My only concern is the adapter sliding out just enough that the SSD comes in contact with the GPU heatsink. I doubt that will happen. How often do you move your desktop around harshly enough to make a pcie card pop out? Those pins usually have a pretty good grasp. At the same time, they should have made it long enough to actually latch in like a gpu does. Then there would be no chance. Reply
bit_user I bought a JEYI SSD heatsink, a few years ago. It was the only 110 mm heatsink I could find that provided full coverage of both sides. I had one of those (now rare) 22110 SSDs that had NAND chips on both sides! I did really appreciate find at least one option out there, that was exactly what I wanted. It wasn't the most amazing SSD heatsink, but it worked more than well enough for my needs. Jabberwocky79 said: And the one thing I love about PC modding – there's pretty much a solution to every scenario. It seems to me that it's hard for non-Chinese manufacturers to go after these niche markets where you can't necessarily charge a high premium. Reply
bit_user Notton said: My only concern is the adapter sliding out just enough that the SSD comes in contact with the GPU heatsink. You could fold a small bit of paper and wedge it in between, as a makeshift spacer. However, I don't really see what mechanism of action would cause the adapter to work loose. flytrap23 said: I'm not sure I want to put an SSD under the hottest component on the system. Fair, but not all graphics cards exhaust downwards towards the motherboard. At least, I think blower-style cards don't. Reply
bit_user ezst036 said: Its a good design. Some years back though a few motherboards that had m.2 slots vertical hit the market but it never took off in popularity. I can see the fragility question with vertical for sure but it does use space better where traditional placement is really wasteful. Vertical M.2 slots wouldn't really provide much benefit over just using a PCIe add-in-card adapter, other than the fact that most motherboards don't necessarily give you an option to route to either M.2 or AIC slot for all of those lanes. https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-PEX4M2E1-M-2-Adapter-Profile/dp/B01FU9JS94/ The main "benefit" of M.2 slots is the ability to use space under the second slot of a 2+ slot GPU. The obvious problem with that is cooling… Reply
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