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so in a previous video we showed the new MSI x2 99 motherboards over on the other side of this booth and those included some changes to the MSI MDOT - heat shields that we previously looked at they've been revamped quite a bit actually we talked about those in that video I'll recap in a bit here but they have another response to the MDOT - thermals and that is this added cars before getting to that this video is brought to you by Corsair and their new vengeance or RGB LED memory which has hand-selected ICS for overclocking and you find more in the link in the description below on that so we've got an AIC and as you can see here it actually targets to m dot EU SSDs and they support the full form factor 2280 form factor SSDs then the interesting part is aside from the storage aspect to talk about in a moment there's a small fan here to provide some cooling so this is the biggest problem with the MSP is now a few notes on this if you're not up to speed on how MDOT to as a seasoned thermals work generally speaking overheating is not a problem however if you're doing really constantly steady-state workloads especially big sequential transfers particularly in a raid it can become a problem it is pretty uncommon though that said some of the motherboards don't really help with the temperatures in a way that makes any sense so this would assist by moving the SSDs onto an A ICU socket it into a PCIe by 8 slot so it's an X 8 on the PCIe and then that gives you full bandwidth and throughput to the devices while providing some cooling through here there's a little on/off switch over here as well which I believe might be for the family this is a pre-production model in addition to the 2 m2 SSD s on the back side of the card there's a 2.5 inch SSD or hard drive slot you'd probably put a hard drive in there realistically now why you would put one there I'm not a hundred cent clear on yet it might be worth trying out but either way there's a slot back there there's the band with the support if it's just a hard drive anyway so they've got one there for cooling the fan spins close through goes across the normal heat sinks that they call the EM to shield assuming these have the same change as the motherboards which I'm not clear if they do if they have the same change as the motherboard there would be a three millimeter thick thermal pad there with a higher watt per meter Kelvin or thermal conductivity rating than on the previous pads that we looked at for the original MSIM two heat shield so that's some changes that are relevant so blow the cross there goes out the back of the case and covers your thermals the reason that something like this would make sense if you do happen to use those steady-state workloads with a higher throughput that causes thermal issues of throttling or whatever would be because with the normal heat shields or heat sinks or whatever you call it on the motherboard normally heat gets trapped underneath particularly with double-sided MDOT - SSDs and there are quite a few of those like the Patriot Hellfire for example so when the heat is sinks through the top really doesn't do a lot of good if you have no direct airflow over the heatsink and no air flow under the SSD where all the heat is just racking up and getting stuck there so that would solve that now to go back to the motherboards talk about that briefly at the beginning of this and more detail in the motherboard video but just to cover that for the sake of the name of this video the motherboards have a few new types of heat sinks one of them is called frozers they're naming it frozen line second generation these were the first generation the one under here the frozer heat sinks are made of aluminum they're a little bit thicker they don't have fins or anything to speak of but they've got a better thermal pad on there in theory now technically I will say display having a three millimeter thick their home pad you generally want a smaller one because it's less area to transfer through you really don't want to have a big thermal interface like thermal paste or throwing pads between your metal but the reason you would have a thicker one is to make sure you can accommodate all the different types of recipes because they're really not standardized any reasonable expectation so they've got the changes to the motherboards I've got two changes to this the motherboard version still no direct airflow but it's just a better he think overall so we'll be looking at that in more detail after contact for now though check the channel for other coverage we're gonna be looking at some of the video cards from MSI including the Lightning already looks at the X 299 motherboard and sky for more go to patreon.com/scishow and Razak stuff that directly thank you for watching I'll see you all next time you