Is the Fanxiang S910Max overheating in Star Wars Outlaws?
While flying through dense asteroid fields, my frame rate would suddenly tank from 90 FPS to 35 FPS, which is an absolute nightmare for gameplay. The Fanxiang S910Max 1TB has insane bandwidth, but the controller was hitting 82℃ - 88℃ under load, triggering a thermal throttle that sliced my speeds in half. I tried enabling power-saving mode in the BIOS, but that only dropped the temp by 4 degrees and made the load times unbearable—a total fail. I ended up stripping the heatsink, swapping in higher-conductivity thermal pads, and tightening the screws properly. HWInfo showed the peak temps dropped from 86℃ to a manageable 64℃ - 70℃, and the FPS drops stopped completely. I actually messed up the first time by using pads that were too thick, which actually raised the temp by 2 degrees until I swapped to the 1.0mm version. Sequential reads are now locked above 10000MB/s. The system performance panel confirms the thermal management is finally dialed in.
