TONGFANG GK5CN5Z / GK5CN6Z / GK5CQ7Z / GK5CP0Z

I'm confused. I was planning to buy the samsung 970 500GB for the 2nd slot. Will this work? Can someone confirm it again that the x4 will work in slot 2 ? Thanks in advance.

 

i put thermal grizzly non conductive and it gets pumped out I even took it back off without wiping away what pumped out and put more and just transferring movies to another hard drive it is sitting around 50c I replaced all thermal pads with I believe 1 mm Arctic pads.. thermal grizzly is a little liquidy I ordered some Arctic silver 5 hopefully itiwon't get pumped I've used it before and it seems pretty thick, it's supposedly not that conductive.

 

check my previous post: http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...ongfang-gk5cn6z.815943/page-329#post-10852973
I have a 970 EVO 500GB, and did some benchmarks: https://imgur.com/a/1K0vS61

I found that both slots give the same speeds so they should be both 4x. Also HWiNFO says both slots are 4x.

My problem (and what you quote was a reply to me) is that although my seq write speed is ok (~2200 MB/s), seq read is only ~1200MB/s, less than half the specs says it should be (3400MB/s).

 

I bought this 180w power brick and it seems to work just fine:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/TARGUS-UNI...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649

 

Having similar heat issues after repasting with Kryonaught. Temps for the first couple weeks were improved but have increased in addition to the delta between cores since. I will give ICQDiammond a try.

 

Do you have Samsung Magician Installed? It’s a great software that maybe can find what’s wrong.
I have a 500GB 970 EVO too (installed in the only pcie slot) that can reach its full speed.

 

Which cores are hotter than the others? I had hotter cores on 1,3,5, and it turned out the sing mount screw on top wasn't applying enough pressure. Adding a little foil around it and tightening it back down has evened out my temps very nicely.

 

Is this a good drive & price for an SSD drive to be used in the 2nd slot ?

Intel 660p 1TB 3D NAND QLC M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 SSD $125 AC @newegg
w/code EMCTUVA42

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Pr...6820167462

 

Does anyone in this tread think that they'll come out with a larger battery than the 4 cell?

 

yes, latest versions of Magician, firmware and nvme driver.

2 questions:
- what bios (version and vendor) are you using?
- what benchmark did you run? did you run ATTO?