News

ASRock Introduces Their New Blazing M.2 Gen 5 Fan-Heatsink

Gen 5 SSD’s are coming in at high speeds which demand the best cooling solutions, unfortunately, the best so far have included tiny noisy fans and ASRock has just introduced the Blazing M.2 Gen 5 heatsink which also features a tiny noisy fan.

The ASRock Blazing M.2 Gen 5 Fan Heatsink

This new heatsink from ASRock is a small 5-cm tall tower of extruded aluminium featuring a tiny 30mm fan providing ventilation at roughly 5CFM. These coolers were initially released with ASRock motherboards and ASRock has released 3 more today shown in the table below as type 3, 4 and 5. ASRock claims that these coolers will significantly lower the temperatures of SSD controllers to reduce the risk of thermal throttling.

Price and Availability

ASRock is expected to price these coolers at around $30 and are compatible with specific ASRock motherboards with no information on compatiblity with motherboards from other brands. You can find out what boards these heatsinks are compatible with and more information on this cooler at ASRock’s website.

I’ve no reason to buy a Gen 5 SSD let alone a Gen 4 SSD as Gen 3 provides plenty of speed for my usecases. If I were a user of a Gen 5 SSD i’d be much happier with a slab of aluminum rather than deal with the noise of one of these tiny fans.

What is your opinion on these Gen 5 fanned heatsinks? Let us know in the comments.

Jakob Aylesbury

Disqus Comments Loading...

Recent Posts

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 Possible Price Revealed

According to a new report, the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU will be very expensive. It…

2 hours ago

AMD Krackan Processor with 6 Zen 5 and Zen 5c Cores for Budget AI Laptops Leaked

A new AMD processor in the form of an engineering model has been leaked in…

3 hours ago

SK Hynix Begins Production of First 321-Layer NAND Chips

SK Hynix has claimed to be the first company to mass-produce 321-layer NAND memory chips.…

3 hours ago

Trust Gaming GXT 609 Zoxa 2.0 PC Speakers

SOUNDS GREAT – Full stereo sound (12W peak power) gives your setup a booming audio…

7 hours ago

PowerA Wired Controller for Nintendo Switch

Special Edition Yoshi design Ergonomic controller shape with Nintendo Switch button layout Detachable 10ft (3m)…

7 hours ago

Logitech G Saitek PRO Flight Rudder Pedals

Fluid Motion: These flight rudder pedals are smooth and accurate that enable precise control over…

7 hours ago