Stopping Samsung 9100 PRO 4TB from overheating in CP2077?
Night City looks incredible with path tracing, but the weird stutters I was getting completely broke the experience. Since the Samsung 9100 PRO is a PCIe 5.0 beast, the core temps in Overdrive mode spiked to 82-88℃, triggering the controller's thermal throttling and tanking the read/write speeds. I tried lowering the game resolution first, which gave me about 10 more FPS, but the drive was still cooking—it was a band-aid fix that left me feeling totally anxious. I ended up installing an active cooling fan and set the motherboard's M.2 thermal mode to Full Speed, while disabling the SSD power-saving mode in Windows. My monitoring software showed the peak temps drop from 85℃ to a stable 62-68℃, and speeds stayed locked above 10,000 MB/s. I had some annoying resonance noise from the fan at first, but adding some rubber gaskets fixed it. The game is finally buttery smooth without any thermal crashes. A 3DMark stress test confirmed the read/write curve is flat, and the input response feels incredibly snappy.
