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thenatar007 t1_ivmt1d6 wrote

You wouldn't have fried the NVMes, they will just throttle down their speeds to hit a safe temperature, also the thermal pads would actually help even with the plastic. Lots of Pcs are running NVMe drives without cooling so you are fine.

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wcsmik t1_ivmtpck wrote

This is my first tifu that wasn’t.

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immibis t1_ivn617s wrote

You can't rely on everything having automatic thermal throttling, but it is pretty normal nowadays. It used to be that CPUs would go pop if you forgot the heatsink.

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SyCoREAPER OP t1_ivnjb2g wrote

Windows was so erratic that I wouldn't trust the drive to throttle itself. Had th processor been boosting and the 3070 active, the drives would have been heatsoaked to oblivion. If they didn't act write in Windows, gaming certainly wouldn't have done it any favors

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Buruutsuki t1_ivs6nib wrote

The good news is that the thermal throttling is controlled by the firmware of the NVMe drive and not by Windows. It is likely because of this that Windows behaved erratically, as the OS relies on quick reads and writes to be responsive. Once those IOPS drop sharply due to the thermal throttle, user experience goes from smooth to choppy real quick.

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Fun-Pea-880 t1_ivnm2v6 wrote

Desktops are one thing; laptops can be pretty toasty, depending on their workload. So it could push it out of the thermal limits of the drive and be throttled.

It depends on the laptop, though so 🤷

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SyCoREAPER OP t1_ivq2clq wrote

In general the laptop does a good job at cooling, I ALWAYS log HWInfo after each session (except NVMe which I guess I'll start doing) on all my computers and they all stay pretty cool, well below the respective thermal maxes

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