Our recent article on the Crucial T700 Gen5 NVME SSD introduced a rather important question, about handing the increased thermals of the Gen5 NVME drives under control. While Crucial has included a passive heatsink with their T700 series, we saw that under constant performance benchmarking, the thermal throttle was possible that reduced the drive's performance a lot. For that reason we searched around the Internet for other "air" cooled NVME coolers that will help with this situation. While there are many different solutions, we looked at two of the most interesting solutions from no well-known vendors, which or not be sold in your region, however, you can find similar products under different names.

The first product comes from Grauger, a German company, that sells a lot of accessories, including cooling products for NVME drives. Their lineup of NVME coolers is big and we looked at something we hoped will bring down temperatures, the g-m2hp04-f

As the online store describes, the GRAUGEAR heat pipe cooler G-M2HP04-F reduces the temperature of your M.2 SSDs by up to 60% and thus contributes to a longer lifetime of your SSDs. The performance of your M.2 SSDs is also positively influenced by the GRAUGEAR heat pipe cooler G-M2HP04-F. For maximum performance, the two 5mm copper heat pipes and aluminum fins with a 25mm PWM fan that adjusts the speed of the fan by changing the temperature.

Features

• Heat Pipe from Copper maximum performance
• 25mm PWM fan which can control the speed of the fan by changing temperatures
• Reduced M.2 SSD temperature by up to 60%
• Designed for desktop computers
• Compatible with Single/Double sided M.2 2280 SSDs

The retail package is rather big for an NVME SSD cooler and includes many logos and information. The price of the product is around ~ 25 Euro (including VAT).

Everything is well packaged inside.

Inside apart from the SSD cooler, you will find a printed manual, warranty card, cooling pads, screwdriver, and two screws for NVME slots to secure the cooler (if needed).

The product has small dimensions and includes two Φ5 copper heat pipes and an 25X25X10mm fan that will help dispass produced heat.

The product dimensions are 80X24.5X54mm and hopefully will be compatible with modern CPU coolers/graphics card slots.

The fan is powered via a 4-pin PWM DC12V and has a rather long cable of 50cm!

Below we can see a blown-out preview of how this CPU cooler works, it supports both single or double-sided NVME SSDs.

The installation process is very easy, just use the included screwdriver to remove the four side screws and remove the top of the cooler, apply the thin thermal paste at the bottom and the "fat" upon the NVME SSD, and re-assemble the whole package together. Insert the package at an empty NVME slot and secure the drive. At the end install the PWM fan cable at any 4-pin empty slot at your motherboard.

In our case, we used an Asus ProArt X670E-CREATOR WIFI motherboard and a Noctua NH-U12A Chromax.Black + 2x120mm Stock Noctua fans CPU fan and a massive MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM X 24G. We used the top Gen5 NVME slot under the CPU area and it fitted like a glove, while not scratching the back of the graphics card. While this is not the optimal position, due to the tight space, it's a rather realistic scenario. Your setup may vary but we feel it should fit at most currently sold motherboards/CPU/graphic cards combo. The long 50cm power cable is helpful, even our motherboard had nearby a 4pin DC12V fan slot.