Is my Kioxia Exceria Plus G4 overheating in PUBG?
Whenever I was looting in a crowded city, the screen would get this anxious, twitchy feeling—it was honestly unbearable in 2K. The G4's controller was hitting 78 - 85℃ under heavy load, triggering the thermal throttle and sending I/O response times jumping from 1ms to 28ms. I tried enabling power-saving mode in the BIOS, but that was a nightmare; it didn't lower the temps and actually tanked my read speeds further. I eventually cranked up the front case fans and changed the Windows write cache policy to 'Disable write-cache buffer flushing' to take the pressure off the controller. In my monitoring tool, the controller temp stayed capped at 55 - 60℃, with random reads holding steady at 75 - 88MB/s. The fan noise was way too loud at first, but I found a sweet spot by lowering the 60℃ threshold. Now temps are stable at 50 - 58℃ and the performance is flat. The thermal throttling is gone, but the fan hum is a constant reminder of the struggle.
