{"id":118885,"date":"2017-07-06T12:49:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T10:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=118885"},"modified":"2017-07-06T12:50:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T10:50:16","slug":"ekwb-launches-new-cooler-for-m-2-ssds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/118885-ekwb-launches-new-cooler-for-m-2-ssds","title":{"rendered":"EKWB launches new cooler for M.2 SSDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EKWB has launched a\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekwb.com\/news\/ek-releasing-m-2-nvme-heatsink-next-generation-form-factor-ssds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new passive cooler<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for M.2 NVMe SSDs, which aims to reduce thermal throttling of ultra-fast drives.<\/p>\n<p>The cooler is a low-profile heatsink which attaches to the drive with a clip, and is available in either black or nickel.<\/p>\n<p>EKWB said the heatsink lowers SSD operating temperatures by 8-11 degrees Celsius, which the company said improves performance under heavy load.<\/p>\n<p>The heatsink consists of a front and back plate, and is compatible with all single-sided M.2 2280 NVMe SSDs (22mm wide and 80mm long).<\/p>\n<p>The cooler is priced at \u20ac10 for the black model and \u20ac13 for the nickel model.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/217240-graphics-cards-for-crypto-mining-coming-to-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Graphics cards for crypto mining coming to South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EKWB has launched a\u00a0new passive cooler\u00a0for M.2 NVMe SSDs, which aims to reduce thermal throttling of ultra-fast drives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":118887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[24725,24727,2101],"class_list":["post-118885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-ekwb","tag-heatsink","tag-ssd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118889,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118885\/revisions\/118889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}