This Is Actually Dangerous Arctic Budget M2 Pro PCIe NVME SSD Cooler
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
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This is actually quite dangerous! Arctic Budget M2 Pro PCIe NVME SSD cooler
Today we are looking at the NEW @ARCTIChannel Arctic M2 Pro m.2 drive cooling heatsink.
It was cheap on Amazon, so thought i would buy two, one to review and one to giveaway to a "lucky" viewer.
After this experience i will be arranging an Amazon return as soon as i can and would suggest that anyone lured in by the cheap price, think twice and watch this video before parting with any money.
It is a shame as for the money it actually performs really well and very close to Gen5 cooler.
Being so small it will also be useful in a PS5 or PS5 Slim.
I hope that Arctic, watch this and can learn from it and maybe there will be a revised version that has a shorter length, and easier to ply open. I think that Arctic's attention to detail and close tolerances have actually worked against them in this instance.
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I've already made the blood sacrifice to the gods of PC building
Me too 😀
If you don't, they'll refuse to make it boot properly.
Blood for the Blood God - Skulls for the Skull Throne
@@lamikal2515 Lol!
I spent 23 years as a courier. I pulled my back a few times lifting heavy loads, one time doing it so bad I had to go home on the Friday it happened, and then I didn't go in to work on Monday. But I never bled as a courier. Now the few months I spent in late '98 building computers is a different story. Poking around in computer cases banging my knuckles on sharp edges and STABBY motherboards and add in cards caused me to BLEED!!! I feel for ya, Mike. Take care.
thanks Charles
Let me know your thoughts on this? Do you expect better from Arctic? Am I asking to much for a £5 M.2 cooler?
Try the Thermalright one. It is miles better in terms of design practicality and I think they look nicer too. Won't cut you unless you are trying to cut yourself. You are not expecting too much; the Arctic one is an objectively bad design. But I knew Arctic had lost the plot when they discontinued their Accelero line to follow the ridiculous water cooling trend.
@@Lurch-Bot How much people want to de-shroud their GPUs vs how much people want affordable cooling solution wich destroy any competition at fixed noise output ? That one is easy to answer.
Nope you didn't ask too much. You were honest. I like Arctic and I know you do too. They need to and can do better.
@@jamesmiscellaneous thanks James, it is nice to hear a comment from someone as geniune as you to give me a reality check
@@mikesunboxing That's a big compliment coming from you, thanks Mike.
I didn’t know Arctic made box cutters
lol 😂
Cuts better than the last cheap pack of blades I bought.
I have the Be Quit nvme heat sink.. its easy and doesn't cut me
This press together design becomes a tomb for ssds. One you put a ssd in, getting it back out is... interesting.
yes it seems that way
Meanwhile, Thermalright did it right, with a bracket and screws to properly sandwich the NVMe between two pads. You can also adjust for thickness and clamping pressure, all for around $8 US. Dropped my temps by 20-25C. Comes off easily for changing the pads or putting it on another drive.
Hope Arctic take note of your review and all the feedback for a revision. Luckily there are plenty of M.2 heatsink coolers under 5 or 10 smackers.
i hope so.
Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. We are truly sorry to hear about your experience with the M2 Pro Cooler. Please know that we take all customer feedback very seriously and have shared your comments with our engineering team for further review and improvement. We also want to highlight that our user manual includes a recommendation to wear gloves for safety purposes while using the product. Your satisfaction is our top priority, and we appreciate your input as it helps us to enhance the quality of our products and services. If you have any further concerns or suggestions, please do not hesitate to reach out to our customer support team.
thanks for getting in touch, i hope my experiences are useful in the ongoing improvement and evolution of the cooler. I would maybe suggest asking users to wear protective gear during installation and removal, as at present it only suggested PPE during disassembly.
and maybe in the next batch get those edges rounded off a little more, and reduce the overall length a few millimetres to ensure compatibility and ease of installation.
In terms of performance, you nailed it. But the user experience wasn't great.
It is a bad design, but there is people whom should not be allowed to use any tool. Even a screwdriver can tell how bad is someone at using tools.
Buy a be quiet MC1(2€ Cheaper as the Arctic) or be quiet MC1 Pro (3€ more then the Arctic but with Heatpipe)
i will take a look at those
Hi Mike. I've worked with that exact cooler, and with a few other brands like Thermalright and didn't have that much of a problem. First thing is I noticed you were using the wrong tool to take it apart. You might want to buy a plastic pry tool set used for opening tablets and laptops. They make it easier on your fingers, and on the cooler. The tolerance is a bit too tight, thus they must be have the M.2 placed exactly or as you've seen they won't fit. Be careful and take care of those fingers.
it's not just that.
products must be smooth.
In the CAD drawing specifications chamfers are made, these are created not only for aesthetics but also to not make the material sharp.
Regardless of the object, it is cut because it is sharp.
Items for sale have certain ISO specifications that avoid this.
Like a spudger?
I tried a plastic pry tool, and it just bent out of shape straight away, the amount of pressure here is incredible, consider it like trying to pierce a coke can bit without the momentum and with the can contents being a lot more valuable and delicate. It really is a over engineered piece
Yeah any plastic tool will have zero effect on this, it was close to the screwdriver bending, plastic would have given up straight away with the force needed
@@mikesunboxing Wow. That's insane. I hope that you didn't take my comment to mean I don't think you know what you're doing. I full well know that you do. If I thought that, I'd certainty say it out right. LOL. I was only going off of my personal experience with the product. The ones you have must have been over engineered, because they're not suppose to fit that tight. Believe it or not, I have one m.2 heat sink made by Corsair that is water-cooled and connects to a custom loop. Weird, I know. Enough of my ramblings. Take care.
I think they are thought for back of motherboard SSD or slot who are actually void of any cooler not meant to replace the original front one, so as long it gets close enough performance than the front cooler it fine by me.
So saving some money to pay more in blood and nerves 😲
Thank you very much for your sacrifice Mike 😀
you are welcome
its only the main chip that will get warm the others are memory as normal for data , you can go to about 70c before they start slowing down , i do have one but it just the same temps as if i freely have one without the cover , depends on your fans inside the case i guess.
Damn, this takes me back to my PC building days when you'd randomly slice your fingers open on a case or motherboard I/O shield. The amount of blood that can come from a small slice in a finger is astonishing!
yeah it really is
Its bizarre they wouldn't go for a basic screws in the side design like so many others do
Hmmm. Nah I'll leave my hot ssd bare to the airflow of the case fans or just use the one that came with the motherboard.
Also there are unknown brand ssd heatsinks with better compatibility and less hassle installation compared to this, and also wont wound you. 😂
I'll be avoiding. I've made plenty of blood and skin sacrifices since the 1990s, but this seems to be more of a torture device than an M.2 cooler.
Haha yeah not great 👍
Looks like your getting what you paid for !! .... What was the customer reviews/score like on the Rainforest ?
Brand new out yesterday I think so no comments or reviews to go by
It appears to me they gone for style over practicality. Add they probly using a 3rd party manufacturer to hit price means quality control not good. Below par for Arctic stds. I would rather pay more ease of use and fitment. Thanks for the warning Mike and Kath 🐈👍
it is close to being really good. rounded edges, smaller length and looser tolerances and it would be great
use hairdryer/heat gun to expand the metal before taking it apart
good idea, but you r really shouldn't need to do that for a brand new product
18:39 --> ...if you've 5 or 10 quid, (or an extra pint of blood..) and you want to try it....
Do you know any way to increase cell phone signal,it works outside but lose signal when inside.
Some providers allow WiFi calling , check if it is an option in your network
Over-designed and over-engineered. Screws would indeed have done the trick.
I've made many a sacrifice in the past. No go backsies
Yeah this was a literally painful experience
@@mikesunboxing thanks for your honest review, would expect nothing less
I tried to mount one very similar to this a few days back and it wouldn't sit down flush. even though i lined it up correctly it was scraping against the chip things on the board so i gave up and binned it. 😅
i know the feeling
You've just completely put me off buying an enclosure for the build I'm doing
i just ordered a few different models on Amazon, so look out for the reviews coming soon. Hopefully something good will be found
I'm surprised you didn't try to fit it before you fit the top part of the cooler...??
well really all the others i have used in the past have probably been a bit smaller and not had the clearance issues, this is the first time i have had this much trouble
@@mikesunboxing Sorry, I was meaning after you had adjusted it. I'm terrible for assuming people get what I mean. Fail on my part. 🫤
You have more pataince than my with my back always killing me.I would have thrown it against the wall a few times and jumped up and down on it a few more just for good measure.
lol I was close and if it wasn’t for a video I would have given up much sooner
If you want an SSD cooler that actually work, buy a Thermalright HR10 pro. It cost about £15 and the idle temp on my Kingston Fury Renegade is 27c and at full load never exceed 53c.
sounds good a few people have suggested that model, i will have to try it, thanks!
If you apply a little heat to just one side of the cooler it will come apart much easier.
yeah that is a plan idea, but i should not need such drastic action on this cooler, it needs to be designed better.
@@mikesunboxing I agree, a little chamfer or finishing of the edges would make no difference to the coolers performance or aesthetics.
Thats a nasty cut Mike,it looks like you need to fumble around with the marigolds for these. Ive seen similar with fiddly small screws to hold the lid on but those look like design over function.
I think chain mail might be better or some Ironman stuff
The built in one on my Crosshair viii Extreme keeps my Samsung 980 pro at 46c (26c in my front room)..
My other two Samsung M.2 are in the Dimm.2 and are the same temps..
That is more trouble than it's worth.. That is rubbish..
I think those heatsinks are designed to be used on drives put on mobos wich does not have included heatsinks. Your Crosshair VIII Extreme is a 800 bucks mobo, so it better be having decent heatsinks for it's M.2 ports.
👍👍👍
Thumbs up? My thumbs are ruined 😂
@@mikesunboxing 👍
Hmmm, an unstoppable force (bench vise) and an unmovable object (heatsink).
What could possibly go wrong?
😉
i won't be finding out :-)
Most of these coolers tend to be rubbish. Id also wonder if it had enough thermal mass for continuous heavy use.
to be fair to it, the performance was actually pretty good and on par with the PCIe gen5 cooler the motherboard has, and that is twice the size and weight, so that part of it is pretty good
@@mikesunboxing Fair play. At least they havent put an LCD screen on it :D
Thoughts - "Rubbish"!
😂
no thanks.... cheers
don't blame you
Just bad product design all over - hard to remove to the point of causing injury, not particularly easy to assemble, and due to it's low surface area inefficient at removing heat...💩💩
it is a badly engineered unit, it could be great, but i falls short in the machining. Shame as the performance is actually pretty decent for it's size
@@mikesunboxing I'm sure you appreciate the difference between the ability to absorb heat and the ability to radiate heat. For short bursts of activity from the NVME sure it will provide some help, but for sustained data transfers the heatsink will just be become saturated, and due to lack of surface area to radiate the heat away will just sit on top of the NVME as a hot metal bar. Better then nothing, but the benefits are limited as a result of the poor design choice.
Airflow is your friend for these smaller coolers
be quiet mc1 pro is better and have screw on it than arctic M2 pro
almost anything will be better than this one
Pure trash... use the be quiet! MC1 Pro... a bit more expensive but a great SSD cooler with copper inside...
i will have a look at that one soon
Read Manuel
manual doesn't state to wear protection during assembly only for disassembly, unless they changed it after the video was released
Manuel is from Barcelona
A completley unnecessary item
how so? it has been proven that bare drives overheat and lose performance and probably lifespan. A £5 investment in your data is worth it?
@@mikesunboxing I should correct my statement. It's probably unnecessary on on a motherboard that already has a heatsink! Maybe a PCIE5 NVME drive would require something with a bit more metal
@@Jacko_486 Cuts cheddar into slices really good
Thank Mile.