Samsung 9100 PRO overheating in The Callisto Protocol?
Exploring those creepy underground facilities is immersive until the game hitches for 0.3 seconds; in a horror game, that's just deadly. I checked my monitors and saw the Samsung 9100 PRO PCIe 5.0 4TB hitting 82-88℃ under load, triggering the firmware's thermal throttling and tanking my read speeds from 12GB/s down to 3GB/s. I tried locking the PCIe mode to Gen4 in the BIOS, which lowered the temps but increased loading times by 30%, which felt like a step backward. I ended up swapping to a beefier active heatsink and cranked up the bottom intake fans to 1200 RPM. In RivaTuner, the jagged frame time spikes were finally crushed down to a smooth 14-18ms range. I actually messed up the installation at first by over-tightening the screws, which slightly warped the PCB, but I fixed it by recalibrating the torque. Now the drive stays between 55-62℃ and the read/write speeds are rock solid. Frame times are consistently 14-18ms.
