How to solve Samsung 9100 PRO overheating in Counter-Strike 2?
During a high-stakes firefight, I started seeing these weird pixel flickers at the edges of my screen—my anxiety just spiked. The controller on the Samsung 9100 PRO Heatsink version was hitting 82-88℃ under full load, triggering a hard thermal throttle. I tried slapping two extra exhaust fans at the top of my case, but while the ambient temp dropped 3℃, the SSD core was still hovering above 80℃. It was a waste of time. I went into the BIOS, switched the PCIe slot power management from 'Auto' to 'Power Saving', and enabled the temperature warning in the driver. Running OCCT, the controller temp plummeted to 65-72℃, and the flickering vanished. I noticed a 5% dip in random reads after switching to power saving, but I clawed that performance back by enabling Re-Size BAR. Now the drive stays between 58-64℃ and the heatsink is just warm to the touch. Five hours of gameplay and zero flickers. Finally, I can actually aim again.
