My Seagate FireCuda 530 500GB is hitting a thermal wall and throttling during FF16 fights, how do I fix this?

The Eikon battles look gorgeous, but the smoothness just vanished, replaced by these jarring frame drops that are painfully obvious during big attacks. Checking my logs, the FireCuda 530 500GB was spiking between 78-85℃, causing read speeds to plummet from 7000MB/s to a pathetic 1200MB/s. I tried switching to 'Ultimate Performance' mode in Windows, but that just pushed the drive to 92℃ and triggered even harder throttling—totally frustrating. I ended up reseating the stock heatsink and rigging a 4cm spot fan over it, then locked the PCIe link to Gen4 in the BIOS. Using RTSS, I saw my frame times collapse from a chaotic 16-42ms range down to a rock-steady 12-16ms. I had some weird drive detection delays right after adding the fan, but a firmware update cleared that right up. Temps now hover around 52-60℃ with barely any fan noise. Frame time analysis confirms the throttling is gone and the drive is finally behaving.