My S910Max is overheating and crashing my whole system during heavy loads. How do I fix this issue?

This was a total nightmare. Right in the middle of a stealth run, my PC just black-screened and rebooted. With PCIe 5.0 drives, this is the ultimate fear. The Fanxiang S910Max 1TB controller was jumping from 60℃ to 85 - 92℃ in half a second during map streaming, triggering the hardware thermal protection. I tried capping the game at 60 FPS, which reduced the crashes but made the input lag feel terrible—totally unacceptable. I ended up tearing off the heatsink and replacing the pads with high-conductivity 12.8W/mK thermal pads, then tweaked the motherboard's thermal trigger threshold. In AIDA64 stress tests, the peak temp stayed between 68 - 74℃, and the reboots stopped. I actually got some gunk on the gold fingers while swapping pads and the drive wasn't detected for a minute, but a quick clean with isopropyl alcohol fixed it. The response is now snappy and the system is finally stable.