Barbara917 wrote:
Which board are you using? The Gene? I have been listening to that podcast stickied at the top of this forum and specifically the section where they discuss thermal throttling on the M.2 drives. They said specifically that those drives need good airflow to keep them cool to avoid throttling. I am looking at the Gene and I am assuming that anyone using this board is going to be using at the very least a single high-end dual slot GPU. The M.2 drive is going to be sitting right under that GPU and the airflow to it will be even worse if a dual GPU setup is being used. I just don't see how that drive can be adequately air-cooled sitting under the GPU.
Thermal throttling does indeed occur, but only when the 950 Pro is pushed hard, and I mean hard. On top of that, if you have a side case fan it absolutely eliminates any possibility of throttling. The card idles at 36 degrees in my case, and when I push it with ATTO benchmark, which basically blows up the writes, it will not throttle. This is with my side case fan at 700 RPM which I cannot hear.
If I turn the fan off, only near the end of the ATTO benchmark will a throttle begin to occur, and it occurs at 75 degrees. Being under the GPU does not seem to be an issue for me either. If I pound firestrike ultra in demo mode looping, the Samsung pro heats up to about 42 degrees. This is with a Gigabyte G1 980Ti sitting right above it.
The talk of throttle with these things has reached fever paranoia, and while it does occur, it is hard to push it to that, and can be completely avoided with simple air circulation. Even if a throttle does occur, its unlikely you will lose much performance as it takes some strenuous work loads to push the temps that high. Remember, these things are built with laptops in mind which have basically ZERO airflow.
