Is my Kioxia EXCERIA G4 overheating in Assassin's Creed Shadows?
While sneaking through the capital, my frames suddenly plummeted from 60 down to 18, which was honestly anxiety-inducing. The Kioxia EXCERIA G4 shot up from 42℃ to 84℃ in three minutes, triggering a hard thermal throttle that crashed my speeds from 10,000MB/s to around 2,200MB/s. I tried capping my CPU state to lower the heat, but that just cost me 15 FPS without solving the core issue. I ended up redesigning my front fan angles and swapping to high-conductivity thermal pads, which kept the SSD between 52-61℃. My read speeds stabilized back at 9,500-10,200MB/s, and the transitions are finally fluid. I actually messed up the first heatsink install by over-tightening the screws, which slightly warped my board, but a quick loosen and realign fixed it. The PCIe bus is now running at full x4 speed with a power peak of 10-13W. Switched the drive to full-speed mode in the analysis tool, and the input response is finally snappy.
