Intel Vs AMD advice please

Day 22 of Pre-Production... sigh..
I have a question; the motherboard only has one M.2 heatsink, do I need to buy a second one for the second M.2 drive?
Any recommendations?
Many thanks.
 

sck451

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Day 22 of Pre-Production... sigh..
I have a question; the motherboard only has one M.2 heatsink, do I need to buy a second one for the second M.2 drive?
Any recommendations?
Many thanks.
If you want to have one, you'll need to buy one. You certainly don't "need" it, though: M.2 drives will work just happily without a heatsink. (The PS5 situation is a bit different because that M.2 slot gets no airflow. Your case will be just fine.)

Note that it will be your slower Intel drive that gets the heatsink rather than the faster Samsung, because it's the slower PCIe slot that gets the heatsink. I have this same setup and the drives differ in temperature by just a couple of degrees. If it turns out to be a problem, by all means get a heatsink, but you almost certainly don't actually need it.
 
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