Does the Samsung 9100 PRO 4TB overheat in Gears 5?
Watching my FPS dive from 144 to 40 during the most intense fights was a nightmare, especially since this drive is supposed to be a beast. The Samsung 9100 PRO 4TB has insane PCIe 5.0 speeds, but the controller hits 82-88℃ under full load, triggering a brutal thermal throttle that drops read speeds from 12000MB/s to around 2500MB/s. I tried downgrading the PCIe lane to 4.0 in the BIOS; while it dropped temps by 10℃, loading times increased by 40%, which was a trade-off I couldn't live with. I eventually swapped to an active heatsink with a dedicated fan and changed the Windows write cache policy to 'Force Flush'. Monitoring with HWInfo showed the controller staying cool at 62-68℃, with read/write rates fluctuating minimally between 10500-11200MB/s. The fan was annoyingly loud at first, but once I manually set the fan curve to 40% load, it became whisper-quiet. 4K random writes are now holding steady at 180-210MB/s. It's finally stable, though the active cooler is a mandatory requirement for this drive.
