A console drive bay limits how tall a drive and its cover can be. No body dimensions are published for this heatsink, so the bay's allowance has to be compared against the physical part. That is a measurement rather than an assumption.
A console ssd bay has rules a desktop case does not, and the most important one is height. Before dropping an AsiaHorse M.2 2280 ARGB heatsink into a PS5's expansion slot, it is worth being honest about what that bay allows and what this cover's listing does and does not tell you.
Sony specifies a maximum height for the drive-plus-heatsink combination that fits into a PS5's SSD bay, and no body dimensions are published for the AsiaHorse cover, so its fit there cannot be confirmed from the spec sheet alone. At R199 it is inexpensive to get wrong, but console bays are unforgiving of even a few millimetres over the limit, so this is one to measure rather than assume.
A PS5's expansion slot sits under a small removable cover with a fixed amount of internal clearance. Sony's own guidance gives a maximum combined height for the drive and any heatsink attached to it, which is why the console market has its own dedicated low-profile heatsinks built specifically to that number. A cover designed for open desktop cases, where the constraint is usually a nearby graphics card rather than a sealed bay, is not guaranteed to respect the same ceiling.
Even setting height aside, the ARGB panel on this cover needs a 5V 3-pin connection to a motherboard's addressable header to light up. A console has no such header, so fitted into a PS5 the panel would simply sit dark. Since the lit face is a large part of what this particular cover offers over a plain heatsink, that is worth weighing before deciding it is worth the risk of a tight fit for no visual payoff.
Treat this cover as a PC part rather than a console one. In a desktop case with a free M.2 slot, the ARGB lighting works as intended, and clearance is something you can physically check against your own graphics card rather than against a sealed console bay you cannot easily open and re-measure. Pairing it with a desktop build works best when you shop for case accessories alongside a look at the solid state drive selection, rather than trying to make it work in a bay it was never designed for.
Yes, a maximum combined height for the drive and any attached heatsink is part of Sony's official guidance for the expansion slot.
No. No body dimensions are published for it, so height against a console bay cannot be verified from the listing.
No. It requires a 5V 3-pin addressable header, which a console does not provide, so the panel would remain unlit even if the cover physically fit.
Console-specific heatsinks exist and are generally built to the bay's stated height allowance, which is the exact figure this general-purpose cover does not publish against.
Fit it in a desktop PC build, where the lighting functions and clearance can be measured directly against the board and any card above it.
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Yes, a maximum combined height for the drive and any attached heatsink is part of Sony's official guidance for the expansion slot.
No. No body dimensions are published for it, so height against a console bay cannot be verified from the listing.
No. It requires a 5V 3-pin addressable header, which a console does not provide, so the panel would remain unlit even if the cover physically fit.
Console-specific heatsinks exist and are generally built to the bay's stated height allowance, which is the exact figure this general-purpose cover does not publish against.
Fit it in a desktop PC build, where the lighting functions and clearance can be measured directly against the board and any card above it.
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