Question motherboard ssd heat sink mount

[man00]

I have a gigabyte z590 ud ac that came with heat sink for SSD.
My SSD would not boot from that 1st m.2 slot
But the other port has no way to mount the heat sink to the motherboard and I can not remove the one near the cpu
The SSD doesn't run hot (35C) but thought I would use the heat sink
Where can I find the standoff for the heat sink screw or does other aftermarket sinks mount different?
thanks

 

[Tech Junky]

Unless you're hammering the drive with writes you don't need one as long as the case has good airflow. I would be more concerned that the other slots doesn't work.

 

[Brainonska511]

It's a bit weird that you couldn't boot from the m2 slot closest to the CPU.

But also, it should prob be fine sans heatsink.

 

[man00]

Unless you're hammering the drive with writes you don't need one as long as the case has good airflow. I would be more concerned that the other slots doesn't work.

Maybe because I have a Intel I5 10600KF CPU, and the drive is SN580 PCIe 4.0...not sure

 

[Brainonska511]

Maybe because I have a Intel I5 10600KF CPU, and the drive is SN580 PCIe 4.0...not sure

Could be - looks like the 10600kf only supports PCIe 3.0, but then you should just be able to set that M2 slot to PCIe 3.0, if auto detect is not making it shift automatically to the correct standard for the CPU-controlled slot.

 

[Tech Junky]

Maybe because I have a Intel I5 10600KF CPU, and the drive is SN580 PCIe 4.0...not sure

Likely. I forget Intel did shifty things with those placeholder versions 10/11th gen CPUs.

 

[man00]

think I found what I was looking for

 

[VirtualLarry]

Did you guys forget? There are some boards where the M.2 slot (on Intel 10th/11th-gen boards) only operates when there's an 11th-gen CPU installed. With a 10th-gen installed, you must use the lower M.2 slot, connected via chipset lanes.

 

[Brainonska511]

Did you guys forget? There are some boards where the M.2 slot (on Intel 10th/11th-gen boards) only operates when there's an 11th-gen CPU installed. With a 10th-gen installed, you must use the lower M.2 slot, connected via chipset lanes.

Didn't forget, just didn't know. Thanks for pointing out that interesting tidbit.

 

[VirtualLarry]

It's the cheaper boards. 11th gen Core added PCI-E x4 off of the CPU for NVMe, but 10th-gen doesn't have that pinout. So, some boards skip the PCI switch necessary to get that slot working with both gens.

 

[man00]

That's all I cared about was being able to use the heatsink, 4.0 or 3.0 made little or no difference to me