My Mario emulator is dropping frames when loading huge ROMs on a Galax H310M Warrior. Can I fix this with priority settings?

My gameplay was literally turning into a slideshow, which is just insulting given my emulator settings. The bus on the Galax H310M Warrior D4 was hitting 20 - 45ms scheduling conflicts during high-frequency small file reads, leaving the CPU just idling in a wait state. I tried forcing the software cache, but that just sped up the game by 2x, making it unplayable—a hilarious failure. I then went into the BIOS, disabled the useless integrated audio enhancement features, and set the SATA mode to 'High Performance'. HWInfo confirmed the disk response time collapsed from a wild 12 - 110ms swing to a stable 5 - 15ms range, and the fluidity jumped significantly. I did lose my system audio for a bit after disabling those devices, but a third-party driver sorted it out. Idle temps are 35 - 42℃, peaking at 50 - 58℃ under load. I exported the logs and the fan speed is holding steady at 1400 - 1600RPM, though the BIOS menu is still clunky as hell.