Is the Fanxiang S910PRO 2TB overheating in AC Valhalla?
During massive raids in England, my frame rate would suddenly tank from 80 FPS down to 25 FPS, which is an absolute joke. Being a PCIe 5.0 drive, the Fanxiang S910PRO 2TB was hitting 82-88℃ under load, triggering a hardware thermal throttle that crashed my read/write speeds. I tried enabling power-saving mode in the BIOS, but that just increased my load times by 40% while only dropping the temp by 5℃—a complete fail. I ended up installing a dedicated M.2 active heatsink with a fan and manually capped the PCIe slot power limit at 12W. Monitoring with HWMonitor, the temps now peak at 62-68℃, and the frame drops have completely disappeared. I had a bit of a struggle fitting the heatsink at first because it was too chunky for my case, but swapping to thinner thermal pads fixed it. Speeds are now locked above 10GB/s. The thermal throttling is gone, and the game is finally playable.
