Fixing thermal throttling on Fanxiang S910Max in Silent Hill 2?
The frame rate plummeted the moment I entered the fog, and then the game just vanished back to the desktop. It was an absolute anxiety-inducing loop. The Fanxiang S910Max is a beast in terms of PCIe 5.0 speed, but when reading over 15GB of assets, the core temp spiked to 85-92℃, triggering the hardware thermal throttle. I tried enabling power-saving mode in the driver, which dropped the temp by 4℃ but doubled the load times—completely unacceptable. Instead, I reworked my case's bottom fan curves to blast air directly onto the M.2 heatsink and updated the NVMe drivers. Now, read speeds stay above 10000MB/s and temps are suppressed to 62-68℃. I did deal with some annoying resonance noise after the fan tweak, but locking them at 1600 RPM hit the sweet spot. The drive is rock steady now. Stress tests show the thermal wall is no longer an issue, and the input response feels crisp again.
