My Samsung 9100 PRO 8TB keeps overheating and crashing the game during big scene loads. Why?

Seeing a BSOD right in the middle of a high-speed chase is enough to give anyone a panic attack. The Samsung 9100 PRO is a PCIe 5.0 beast, but it pulls up to 12W under load, which sent my temps screaming from 45℃ to 82℃ in under two minutes, triggering the emergency thermal throttle. I tried capping the PCIe link to Gen4 in the BIOS; the temps dropped to 60℃, but I lost nearly half my read speed, which felt like buying a Ferrari and putting speed limiters on it. I eventually slapped on an active heatsink with a fan locked at 3000 RPM. Monitoring via HWMonitor showed temps dropping to a manageable 58-63℃, and the crashes vanished during a six-hour stress test. I actually messed up the first install by over-tightening the screw, which slightly warped the PCB and caused a detection failure, but a quick loosen fixed it. Read speeds are now locked above 10000MB/s. It's overkill, but necessary for these Gen5 drives.