▲ 191 ▼ A brick has been shat (lemmy.ca) submitted 1 month ago by avidamoeba@lemmy.ca to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world 65 comments fedilink hide all child comments As an atheist, I ask for prayers that the backup's good. E: Your solidarity has worked. The backup is good and not too old. Note for myself and you - install your OS on a snapshotting filesystem so that live backups are possible.
[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (2 children) So the heatsink is not needed? Or did you plan on putting it back afterwards?? I'm so confused. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago Mobo probably has its own heatsink, given that they mentioned being unable to remove that and removing the SSD heatsink instead. permalink fedilink source parent [–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca [S] 4 points 1 month ago The motherboard has big, built-in heatsinks on its M2 slots. You install a naked NVMe drive in the M2 slots and the motherboard heatsinks (with thermal pads) hug it from both sides. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago Mobo probably has its own heatsink, given that they mentioned being unable to remove that and removing the SSD heatsink instead. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca [S] 4 points 1 month ago The motherboard has big, built-in heatsinks on its M2 slots. You install a naked NVMe drive in the M2 slots and the motherboard heatsinks (with thermal pads) hug it from both sides. permalink fedilink source parent