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The bleeding-edge WD SN850x 2TB SSD w/ heatsink is down to £140.94
The WD SN850x is something of a favourite around these parts, capturing our ‘best PCIe 4.0 SSD for gaming‘ crown, and today it’s also one of the best value SSDs thanks to a heavy discount as part of Amazon’s Spring Sale.
Samsung’s 980 Pro Heatsink 1TB is down to £92 after a 36% price drop
Samsung’s high-end 980 Pro PCIe 4.0 SSD has dropped in price on Amazon UK, and now costs £91.82 for a 1TB model with preinstalled heatsink rather than the £125+ it normally costs. This is an awesome price for one of the fastest SSDs on the market, with the advent of the even faster (but significantly more expensive) 990 Pro pushing the previous flagship to nearly bargain basement territory.
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New MacBook Pro Features Smaller Heatsink Due to Supply Chain Issues
The new MacBook Pro’s revised thermal architecture appears to be caused by the reduced overall footprint of the M2 Pro and M2 Max SoCs inside the device, as noted by iFixit and Max Tech. The M1 Pro and M1 Max MacBook Pro models contained two, large memory modules, but the M2 Pro and M2 Max MacBook Pro models contain four slimmer memory modules. Even though the M2 Pro and M2 Max dies are physically larger than those of the M1 Pro and M1 Max, the SoCs as a whole take up less space.
This means that the M2 Pro and M2 Max MacBook Pro models do not require a heatsink as large as the one used for the previous generation. It is not clear if this significantly impacts thermal efficiency.
The reason for the use of four smaller memory modules appears to be supply chain issues. The entire SoC is mounted on a substrate, so four smaller modules allow Apple to use a smaller substrate, making a saving on materials and reducing complexity as a result. Dylan Patel, Chief Analyst at SemiAnalysis, told iFixit:
ABF substrates were in very short supply when Apple made the design choice. By using four smaller modules rather than two larger ones, they can decrease routing complexity within the substrate from the memory to the SoC, leading to fewer layers on the substrate. This allows them to stretch the limited substrate supply further.
The M2 Pro and M2 Max deliver up to 20 percent better CPU performance and 30 percent better GPU performance than their predecessors, but since the chips continue to be based on TSMC’s 5nm process, some users have noted that Apple may have made thermal tradeoffs in order to deliver improved performance.
This article, “New MacBook Pro Features Smaller Heatsink Due to Supply Chain Issues” first appeared on MacRumors.com
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Get the blazing fast WD SN850x 1TB SSD w/ heatsink for $70 off
The WD SN850x is one of the very fastest NVMe SSDs in the world, with its PCIe 4.0 connection, super-fast TLC NAND flash memory and high-speed controller offering some frankly astonishing speeds – up to 7300MB/s reads and 6300MB/s writes, not to mention random read and write speeds of 800K IOPS and 1.1M IOPS respectively. This puts it within the top echelon of SSDs – perhaps why we named it the best PCIe 4.0 SSD for gaming!
Samsung’s 980 Pro PCIe 4.0 SSD is down to £98 for a 1TB heatsink model
The Samsung 980 Pro, a ‘PCIe 4.0 SSD speed demon‘ with ‘absolutely barnstorming… read and write performance’ and a former ‘fastest PCIe 4.0 SSD‘ pick has been reduced over at Amazon UK. There, you can pick up the 1TB model for £98, and it’s even the premium version that includes a high-grade heatsink preinstalled.
The WD SN850 1TB SSD is down to £105 with a heatsink in a historic price drop
The WD Black SN850 is one of our favourite gaming SSDs, and today it’s available for just over £100 at Ebay when you use the code SPEND15 to knock 15% off the price. This a good price for one of the fastest SSDs on the market, especially given that it’s a PCIe 4.0 model that comes with a heatsink – very useful for PCs and it even meets Sony’s strict requirements for the PS5.
Pick up a high-spec Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NVMe SSD with heatsink for £184
The Samsung 980 Pro is one of the fastest NVMe SSDs on the market, making excellent use of the PCIe 4.0 spec, and today a 2TB model has been reduced to £184 on Amazon UK. The usual price for this model is £252, making this a sweet 27% reduction.