S910Max thermal throttling causing lag in Black Desert?
Every time a massive guild fight starts, my frames dive from 120 down to 40, and the stutter is just anxiety-inducing. The Fanxiang S910Max 1TB is a furnace; core temps hit 82-88℃ under load, triggering a hard thermal throttle that crashed my read speeds from 10,000MB/s to a measly 3,000MB/s. I tried capping the PCIe link to 4.0 in the BIOS, which dropped temps to 60℃, but the load times nearly doubled, which felt like a huge step backward. I ended up reinstalling the stock heatsink and rigging a 40mm mini-fan to blow directly on the drive, while setting the M.2 fan curve to 'Aggressive' in the BIOS. Monitoring with HWInfo showed the drive peaked at 62-68℃, and the speed stopped fluctuating. I had some annoying resonance noise from the fan at first, but some silicone pads fixed that. Idle temps are now 35-42℃. Benchmark curves are back to peak performance, and the input lag is finally gone.
