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Hey guy i am currently running a SLI set up and looking for adding an pcie ssd to the middle of those card. I am running a MATX so i only have one pcie left.
I read from the internet that temperature can damage ssd so in this situatuion does it matter much? or I have to go out and grap 2 sata ssd in raid 0
 
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Another option is to install an Intel 750 NVMe PCIe SSD. I purchased my 800 GB AIC model months ago on NewEgg for $649. It plugs directly into my PCIe slot, and is covered in heatsinks. Whereas with my Samsung 950 Pro, I did witness slight thermal throttling after I installed the drive and cloned from my Intel 750. I suspect the slight speed slow down was throttling. My case was already open, so I simply turned on a fan full speed and pointed it at the motherboard. The speed raised back up. I "think" the initial reduction in speed was from 330 MBps (Megabytes per second) to ~ 300 MBps. I wrote down the exact figures somewhere, but I misplaced the file. Anyway, I suspect that the M.2 drive will always throttle during cloning or...
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to prevent disappointment, what is the PCI gen of the slot you're going to use, and b) was PCIe SSD are you planning on installing

my MATX mobo (asus Z97M-Plus) only has one PCIe 3.0 slot, and the latest PCIe SSDs require a PCIe 3.0 slot to hit full speeds

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to prevent disappointment, what is the PCI gen of the slot you're going to use, and b) was PCIe SSD are you planning on installing

my MATX mobo (asus Z97M-Plus) only has one PCIe 3.0 slot, and the latest PCIe SSDs require a PCIe 3.0 slot to hit full speeds

as far as cooling, what i fabricated isn't that hard to copy - i used a pc of 2" X 2" alum angle, 2" long, and used a hole saw to cut an opening to match the fan's diamter

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fwiw
 
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I am using an x99. No worry about PCIe 3.0 lane there. All I am asking if the tempreature of the GPU can damage the PCIE SSD as i put it right between them as i heard SSD life span can be affected by temp

 
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most reviewers recommend some sort of active cooling - notice the fan i installed directly over the controller section of my 950 PRO

but if you want to just monitor temperature to see, download a trial copy of HD sentinel - it will record your temps so you can see hot it hit on any particular day. Depending on airflow path, the GPU fans should be drawing fresh air constantly so you've got cooling airflow from that.

The thermal limit is set at 70C so that's the temp to stay under - with my fan, during video rendering max temp i see is 42C, idle temps 35-38C

hope that helps

 
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The 950 Pro will reach 75°C and thermal throttle, which hurts performance, when doing drive benchmarks.

Check this link out (don't want to post the pics in multiple threads). In that link, the top picture is the "after" -- before I added the fan, the bottom half of the ATTO disk benchmark was much lower as it reached the thermal limit of 75°C and throttled itself. With the fan, it never goes above 61°C when benchmarking. With normal use, it's much lower.

If you are doing SLI, you would need to have a fan blowing air between the two graphics cards to reach the drive.
 
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Another option is to install an Intel 750 NVMe PCIe SSD. I purchased my 800 GB AIC model months ago on NewEgg for $649. It plugs directly into my PCIe slot, and is covered in heatsinks. Whereas with my Samsung 950 Pro, I did witness slight thermal throttling after I installed the drive and cloned from my Intel 750. I suspect the slight speed slow down was throttling. My case was already open, so I simply turned on a fan full speed and pointed it at the motherboard. The speed raised back up. I "think" the initial reduction in speed was from 330 MBps (Megabytes per second) to ~ 300 MBps. I wrote down the exact figures somewhere, but I misplaced the file. Anyway, I suspect that the M.2 drive will always throttle during cloning or benchmarking, but that's not something that I would classify as everyday use.

The Samsung 950 Pro is probably here to stay and has a much longer upgrade path for probably years to come. Whereas the Intel 750's days might be numbered, if Intel doesn't lower the price to make it more competitive. I have to be honest about that.

By the way, the message thread that I've pasted below is a good summary of my initial experience with the Samsung 950 Pro.

Upgrade FROM Intel 750 TO Samsung 950 Pro - Random Read (IOPS) below spec
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2907040/upgrade-intel-750-samsung-950-pro-random-read-iops-spec.html
 
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