How to optimize storage scheduling on Galax B760M D4?
Man, it's ridiculous that a B760M board would turn my game into a slideshow during a team fight. The PCIe 4.0 link on the Galax B760M D4 was hitting signal interference while loading fragmented assets, causing micro-packet loss when peaking at 3.2GB/s - 4.0GB/s. I tried adding more virtual memory, but the stuttering actually got worse—honestly, that was a huge mistake on my part. I went into the BIOS and forced the NVMe interface to Gen3 mode to stabilize the signal, and I also killed Fast Startup in Windows. Monitoring with RTSS, the frame time variance shrank from a messy 18ms - 45ms down to a tight 14ms - 20ms. The drive took an extra second to be recognized after the first Gen3 switch, but it went back to normal after a chipset driver update. VRM temps were sitting at 52℃ - 60℃. I used a performance logger to dump all the I/O conflict data for the archives, and the scheduling is finally dialed in.
