Compatability of M.2 drives with heatsinks and motherboard heatsinks?

[JerryTheC]

I'm in the early stages of planning a new PC build. Looking at M.2 nvme drives, some of the faster ones come with heatsinks.

Looking at motherboards, some come with per-slot M2 heatsinks. Presumably that's not a problem -
you can just leave the supplied motherboard heatsink off if the drive has its own heatsink.

But what about motherboards where there's a large single heatsink that covers one or more M.2 slots
and other parts of the motherboard? Does that mean you can't use M2 drives that have their own
heatsinks?

[kalniel]

Either take the heatsink off the SSD, or leave the motherboard heatsink off - it's probably going to be designed to be removed so you can get the SSD in in the first place and unlikely to be part of cooling for anything important.

[watercooled]

Or just get the version of the drive without the heatsink if available - they're usually cheaper anyway.