Is the Great Wall GW3300 overheating in Phantom Blade Zero?
During high-intensity combat, the screen would just freeze for about 0.3 seconds—it's a tiny hitch, but it completely ruins the rhythm of the fight. I used some monitoring tools and found that the Great Wall GW3300 512GB spikes from 40℃ to 78℃ in just 15 seconds under full load, triggering the thermal throttling mechanism. I tried enabling power-saving mode in the drivers, but that just slowed down my loading times by 20%, which was a compromise I wasn't willing to make. I ended up slapping on an aluminum heatsink and adding a 4cm spot fan directly over the M.2 slot, while disabling PCIe power management in the BIOS. Now, the drive peaks at 52-58℃, and read/write speeds stay above 2000MB/s. The fan caused some annoying resonance noise at first, but dialing it down to 1200 RPM made it whisper quiet. CPU temps are steady at 62-68℃, and the drive is finally behaving itself.
