The time taken to load game levels with the heatsink is more or less the same as using the drive without the Sabrent heatsink. We tested games such as Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales on the Kingston drive with Sabrent heatsink. But with the Sabrent heatsink, we got a slightly improved speed of 6559 MB/s.Īs for the startup times for games, there is almost a second difference when using the Sabrent heatsink on the Kingston Renegade PCIe 4.0 SSD. ![]() When we had tried the Kingston 2TB FURY Renegade PCIe 4.0 SSD on the PS5, we achieved a read speed of 6557 MB/s. While we did not exactly have any equipment to test the temperatures of the drive during the time of review, we were able to conduct a read speed test and also loading times of the games with and without the Sabrent heatsink. The Sabrent heatsink with its aluminum cover is designed to improve the heat transfer and cooling of the PCIe 4.0 drive on the PlayStation 5. The aluminum cover does appear to protrude a bit outwards, and that’s a good thing since more airflow can reach from the native cooling fan. Installing the heatsink did not take more than a minute and the aluminum cover fits just as well as the native PS5 M.2 cover. We used the Kingston 2TB FURY Renegade PCIe 4.0 SSD for this review to try the Sabrent heatsink. Sabrent also included a screwdriver with the package that will be helpful for users to easily install the heatsink. ![]() However, it should be noted that most PCIe 4.0 drives have chips on both sides of the drive and the Sabrent’s PS5 heatsink design only covers the top portion of the drive. The aluminum cover also has a gamer-centric design on the top with gold accents and the Sabrent logo. The dimensions of the heatsink are 148.59mm x 76.2mm x 11.684mm and weight is about 82.2g. The heatsink also comes included with a thermal pad for better heat transfer. The heatsink portion is long enough to easily reach the chips of the drive and uses a method that Sabrent calls the “Sandwich Design”, where an even pressure is applied throughout the entire SSD for an efficient and consistent heat transfer. Sabrent solved this problem by simply developing a CNC’d aluminum cover that features the exact dimensions of the native PS5 M.2 cover and merging it with a heatsink that is located underneath. And this results in trapping the heat and throttling the performance of the installed drive. While the slot also has enough room to house a PCIe 4.0 SSD with a heatsink, the metal cover that is used to close the M.2 slot doesn’t exactly do a good job of transferring heat that is dissipated from the drive. With the inclusion of an M.2 slot, PlayStation 5 owners will be able to install a PCIe 4.0 SSD and achieve loading speeds that are similar to the internal SSD of the console. We got a chance to try it out and here are our thoughts about the product. ![]() Without the cooling fan pushing air through the system, your PS5 will quickly shut down as it hits its failsafe temperature.While the Sony PlayStation 5 features an M.2 storage slot for memory expansion, Sabrent had released an M.2 NVMe heatsink for the PS5 that also doubles as a replacement for the metal cover of the M.2 slot. The PlayStation 5 is an exceptionally quiet console, so you may not know when your fan (there’s just a single huge one) has stopped spinning. So if such problems persist after following our tips, get a professional assessment of your system. ![]() It’s important to note that symptoms such as visual glitches can also be traced to faulty memory or to heat-related issues with parts that are not user-serviceable.
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