Massive Heatsinks Beware: Patriot Has A Gen5 NVME SSD With A Tiny Fan And An Incredibly Low Profile

Computex saw a lot of Gen5 NVME SSDs being shown off on the show floor and each one had a heatsink bigger than the other. Some even had dual-cooling with a decent sized fan and a water loop passing through it. For a second, it seemed like the days where you could snugly fit an NVME SSD out of sight were over - but Patriot Memory seems to have swooped in to save the day. While Gen5 NVME SSDs dump too much heat to be passively cooled just by the motherboard plate, Patriot Memory have actually figured out a solution that can still fit underneath your average graphics card!

A size that impresses: the Viper PV553 delivers 12.4 GB/s read and 11.8 GB/s write while having a cooler that can fit under your graphics card

The Patriot Memory Viper PV553 supports the NVME 2.0 standard and comes in sizes ranging from 1TB to 4TB. It features a 4 GB memory buffer (DDR4) from 2TB and above. Best of all, however, it has a very low profile heatsink with the tiniest blower fan we have ever seen that can apparently provide all the cooling this Gen5 SSD needs to hit 12.4 GB/s of write speed and 11.8 GB/s of read speeds. That is very impressive considering most passively cooled low profile heatsink SSDs are usually in the 8 GB/s range.

The team also told us that in lab conditions, the NVME SSD never went upwards of 33c at room temperature (typically 24c) . But of course, if the SSD is going to be sitting underneath a very hot GPU, it is not really going to be operating at room temperature. To this, Patriot Memory replied that they had also tested the SSD multiple times underneath big graphics cards for 2 days at a stretch with a sustained load and it had not throttled once - which is once again very impressive.

So in a world full of Gen5 NVME SSDs with absolutely monstrous heatsinks and some even having water cooling loops going through them - Patriot Memory stands out as the one company that dared to find an unobtrusive solution to, frankly, not that complex a problem. With those massive heat sinks - you can forget about using those slots that typically exist underneath or around your main PCIe slots - but with the Viper PV553 - you can still do that. With a tiny blowerfan-that-could and a super low profile heatsink, this is one SSD to watch out for.

Written by Usman Pirzada