SSD Temperatures

It's only the top M.2 port we're testing here as the underside port, while offering PCIe Gen 5 support, isn't equipped with a heatsink. The results here are the same as the previous board, or within a degree or two, and 80 °C is rather toasty. This was with the thermal pads being adjusted to suit our double-sided SSD and our older thermal testing SSD is known to be quite warm-running, unlike the ADATA XPG Mars 980 Blade we now use for speed tests. Still, we've seen much better cooling from other boards, so this isn't a strong point. Temperatures were better with our PCIe Gen 4 SSD.

PCIe Gen 4 Performance (2 TB ADATA Legend 960)

PCIe Gen 5 Performance (2 TB ADATA XPG Mars 980 Blade)