[someotherperson]

Is there any real benefit over some thermal pads and heat sinks? I've passively cooled CPUs to idle at 40 degrees and max out at 60 degrees during benchmarking. I imagine $10 worth of pads and heatsinks would achieve the same outcome as this expansion card.

[kkielhofner]

In my use case I needed to support four x4 NVMe drives (actually eight NVMe across two x16 slots). The low temperatures in a very dense chassis by doing nothing other than mounting the drives is a nice bonus!

[someotherperson]

That makes a lot more sense. Thank you for expanding. Glad to hear the setup is working for you well :-)