Is heatsink required?

[Logeshavan]

Greetings,

I purchased HP Pavilion Gaming - 15-dk0261tx 2 years ago. Initially, It contained only HDD of SATA type. Now, I am in need of SSD. This laptop also has a M.2 Slot for SSD. I decided to use Crucial p5 plus which is Gen4 PCIe component. Many suggested that heatsinks are required for gen4 SSDs. Is that really required? If so, can I fit into my laptop? I need to run software such as Unity, Android Studio and some modern games. So please suggest if heatsinks are required while running these software.
Thanks in Advance 🙂

[NonSequitur777]

@Logeshavan,

Welcome to our HP User Forum!

Really required? It so happens that opinions differ.  Regardless, I for one do prefer to add (copper) heatsinks -even in laptops, but whether or not you can actually add an M.2 NVMe SSD heatsink depends entirely on the available headroom -the available space just over the M.2 NVMe SSD before it touches your back panel.  You'll have to try to measure this.

In some laptops, thanks to extraordinarily snug engineering, there is absolutely no headroom whatsoever to add an M.2 heatsink.

Probably the best you can do is to find out if one of these 3mm heatsinks will fit:

Reference link: Amazon.com: Easycargo M.2 Heatsink Kit, Cooler Heat Sink + Thermal Pad for Cooling PS5 M.2 SSD 2280 ...

These particular heatsinks don't take up too much space -see this example on an M.2 NVMe SSD fitted on an M.2 NVMe to PCIe 3.0 x4 adapter card installed in one of my desktop's  PCIe slots:

Hope this was helpful.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[NonSequitur777]

@Logeshavan,

And for even the tightest of places, even a thinner copper heatsink would help, such as this 1mm example: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256801622065093.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.224b353fPRR6zD&algo_....

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777