Cooling improvements

Hi folk, just sharing a modest cooling mod I made that dramatically improved cooling of my Framework desktop. SSD temperatures on Windows went from 60+ to 40 degrees C. On Linux it’s barely 30 degrees idle. I use a pair of Samsung 990 Pro. I know 60 is not super hot for SSDs but I don’t want to cook them and have them throttle either.
As for the CPU, it barely reaches 80 degrees C during benchmarks and it stays at 140W sustained. The fans don’t even run at maximum so it’s still relatively quite even at full load.

What I did: cut out the front panel and add a Noctua 80mm in pull config and cut out a hole on the side in front of the SSD. See pictures. Oh and I used a 3D print of the Noctua-designed side panel :smiley:

Hope that helps someone in case their SSD runs hot.

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