Is the Samsung 9100 PRO 8TB overheating in Spider-Man 2?
Zipping through Manhattan is great until the frame rate suddenly craters from 120 down to 50, which is just pathetic for this hardware. The Samsung 9100 PRO 8TB is a PCIe 5.0 beast, but when loading massive amounts of city textures, it hit 85-90℃, triggering thermal throttling that cut the bandwidth in half. I tried enabling power-saving mode in the BIOS, but while it dropped the temp by 5 degrees, the loading times became unbearable, which was a totally useless fix. I ended up swapping in some higher-grade thermal pads and changed the Windows write cache policy to 'Force Flush'. Monitoring with HWInfo, the peak temps dropped from 90℃ to a safe 65-72℃, and the drops stopped completely. I actually messed up the first pad installation, which caused a gap and made temps rise by 2 degrees, but I fixed it by tightening the screws properly. Sequential reads are now stable around 12000MB/s. I exported the optimized disk config via a system snapshot, and temps are holding at 65-72℃.
