Cooling
Let’s move on to the “graphene” pad, which in my opinion is more of a normal graphite composite pad (on an aluminum carrier material). You don’t even have to argue about the sense or nonsense of it, because it works even better with a normal pad and without the paper stickers of the product label.
And what insights does the optional cooler provide? There’s no need to do a pad mod, as the two pads supplied are both fine. As already teased, the heatsink consists of the usual light metal (aluminum) with pressed-in and ground DHT heatpipes (Direct Heat Touch). That would be fine if it weren’t for the pointlessly thick black coating.
The counterpart as a U-shell is coated in the same way, but is made of trivial steel with a few additions (or impurities) of bismuth.
The two pressed-in heat pipes are made of copper, the nickel layer is approx. 3 µm thick, which is a bit too much.
Temperature behavior and power consumption
The measured temperatures in idle and light operation (e.g. while gaming or working in the office) with the motherboard heatsink are quite ok. It is important to note that the controller always gets hotter than the NAND, especially under real load. This is less likely to occur when gaming. Either you use workstation applications or you clone an SSD. Then it gets a little warmer, especially when used as a target medium (2 TB write). The temperatures in the case (Fractal Meshify) are even slightly lower than in the open setup, because the fans in the case still produce sufficient airflow even when idle without CPU load. In the open setup, it sometimes went up to around 66 °C after more than an hour of continuous load, but you have to provoke that first. This time, we logged with HWInfo64 and our own K-sensors.
With the noisy cooler, you can usually even get below 60 °C, but you really don’t have to put up with that. Unless you want to suffer voluntarily. The temperatures naturally result from the power consumption, which remains moderate in idle and only rises to up to 9 watts under medium load and to just under 11.8 watts under full load. Peaks during cloning can go up to just under 12.5 watts, but this is more of an exception.
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