EKEkwb EK-M.2 NVMe Aluminum SSD M.2 2280 Heat Sink

Got this for my two Samsung 960 pro drives, and they work ok. To get the hardcore best performance, you'd need to remove the stickers that cover the memory modules on the stick, but I don't want to do that just in case I want to sell the drives in the future. I don't think a 1mm sticker is going to make much of a difference though.EK always makes high quality stuff, and this isn't different. They come with two aluminum pieces, a couple thermal pads, and 2 clip brackets. It can be a bitch to get them on by it once you do it's completely solid and won't move at all. Just cut the thermal pads to length, sandwich the aluminum pieces, and then proceed to squeeze as hard as you can to get the damn clips on lol. It can be a little difficult.I have my two nvme drives mounted in my Asus Rampage VI Extreme in a little M.2 dimm stick that sits right in between the ram and the 24 pin power cable on the upper right side of the board. It's a great way to mount m.2 drives so they aren't sticking straight up. I was worried that these would make the drives too thick to fit, but they just BARELY fit on both sides. The Rampage VI Extreme has 3 m.2 mounting spots, the two in the dimm stick, and one underneath the plastic body horizontal inbetween the pcie slots. I haven't checked to see if it would fit under that, but with the amount of height this adds, I'd be surprised if it fits. I will try, and edit my review if it does.Performance wise, if you're adding heats sinks to your nvme modules you're probably a little ocd and psycho on your computer builds lol, you totally don't need these, they're just fancy bling, but it does reduce temps by a decent little margin. I notice about a 6 degree drop in temps when really stressing the drives in synthetic benchmarks. You probably wouldn't ever have this happen or stress the drives this much in regular usage and I didn't want to stress them too hard with pointless heavy read/write tests that will reduce the life of the drive unnecessarily, but hey it did drop the Temps, & that's all I was looking for. Plus, it makes them look bad ass, which really is the most important thing...right?Cheap enough to be cool (literally and figuratively) if you care about temps THAT much, and make the drives look really cool if you can see them in your case.

Even though my Merlin case is cooled by nine (9) fans and the X99 chipset has a large heatsink cover, there is no direct cooling for the M.2 which is near the X99 chipset. After reading reports from users of this board, many M.2s had serious problems with heat and throttling, but this heatsink solves the problem! Covering the Samsung M.2 was easy enough, the pictures were very helpful. When I went to install the covered M.2 onto the motherboard using the included screw, I discovered it was too short...enter Mcsher's 300pcs Laptop Notebook Screws Kit Set For IBM HP Dell Lenovo SAMSUNG Sony Toshiba Gateway screw kit which provided the necessary screw and more than enough to replace those in my laptop when I clean and upgrade it next week. There was no throttling or BSD during six hours of testing in AIDA64 Extreme or while I've transferred several videos to DVDs. Again, EKWB's M.2 heatsink does its job wonderfully and adds a clean professional look to any system.Keeps the Samsung 960 PRO Series - 512GB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Internal SSD (MZ-V6P512BW) cool and looking good on my workstation. It's paired with an ASUS EATX DDR4 LGA 2011-3 Motherboards X99-E WS/USB 3.1 motherboard with an Intel Core i7-5960X Haswell-E 8-Core 3.0GHz LGA 2011-v3 140W Desktop Processor BX80648I75960X processor which is cooled by an Alphacool Eisbaer 280 CPU Water Cooler - Black, an EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 GAMING, 11GB GDDR5X, iCX Technology - 9 Thermal Sensors & RGB LED G/P/M, Asynch Fan, Optimized Airflow Design Graphics Card 11G-P4-6593-KR video card running 3 2-year-old BenQ XL2420Z 24-Inch Screen LED-Lit Professional Gaming Monitor monitors with 3D Vision, several SSDs and HHDs on a LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-8I 8-port 6Gb/s SATA+SAS PCI-Express 3.0 Low Profile RAID Controller Card, Single and Corsair Vengeance LPX 64GB (8 x 8GB) DDR4 DRAM 2133MHz (PC4-17000) C13 memory kit for DDR4 Systems memory. Again, with all these heat generating components, the 960 has never throttled nor have I experienced a BSD due to EK’s heatsink.