My Intel 760P 512GB has massive texture loading delays in GoW Ragnarok combat, leaving models blurry.

The blurry models were incredibly obvious the second a fight started, and I knew immediately that my storage I/O was totally choked. While the sequential reads on the Intel 760P 512GB are okay, the random reads were hitting latency peaks of 50-70ms when handling small files. I wasted a bunch of time trying to defrag the drive, which is a complete joke for NVMe SSDs and probably just ate into my write endurance—total waste of effort. I ended up grabbing the latest official firmware and bumped the drive queue depth from the default 32 up to 64. In AIDA64 benchmarks, my random read performance jumped from 48MB/s to a range of 65-72MB/s, and the textures finally started popping in faster. I did have a weird glitch where the drive wasn't recognized on the first boot after the update, but a quick reseat of the M.2 slot and cleaning the gold pins fixed it. The drive temp settled at 52-58℃ with controller load between 35-50%. System logs show zero I/O errors now, and RAM temps stayed around 58-63℃, though the load times are still slower than Gen4 drives.