Meet The Thermal Guard XTREME Heatsink
TweakTown received their fingers on one other PS5026-E26 primarily based drive, this time from Gigabyte. In contrast to most of the different PCIe 5.0 drives available on the market the AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD doesn’t sport a fan on it’s massive cooler. The cooler is seemingly coated in nanocarbons heatsink and is a formidable 44.7 mm tall (1.75″). The scale is actually efficient as testing by no means introduced the temperature of the drive to 60c, remaining cool sufficient that there was by no means any thermal throttling. It received’t slot in each slot in your board, due to numerous motherboard makers liking to hid an M.2 slot below your GPU so ensure to maintain that in thoughts.
The performance matches or beats the other PCIe 5.0 drives TweakTown has tested, studying and writing at over 10,000MB/s in CrystalDiskMark and different benchmarks. The AORUS Gen5 10000 SSD additionally got here out on high of their 100GB copy take a look at and their 13GB learn take a look at as effectively. Curiously the drive did over 10% higher on the B650E take a look at mattress than it did on the Z590 primarily based one.
At the moment the drive is tough to search out on the market, however as soon as inventory returns it is best to count on to have to take a position round $339.99 for the 2TB mannequin. A little bit dearer than the PCIe 4.0 drives on the market however you at all times should pay to get the perfect.
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