Is the Great Wall GW3300 2TB overheating in Remnant 2?
Everything was running smooth until I started noticing these periodic frame drops, especially when moving fast through the world—it felt really choppy. Checking the hardware, I saw the Great Wall GW3300 2TB controller was hitting 82-88℃ under high bandwidth, which triggered the hardware thermal throttling and basically cut my read/write speeds in half. My first instinct was to drop the PCIe link speed to 3.0 in the BIOS. While that brought temps down to 60℃, I lost all the throughput benefits of a 2TB Gen4 drive, and loading times increased by 30%, which was a total dealbreaker. I ended up ditching the stock passive heatsink for an active cooling module with a tiny fan and optimized my case's front intake. Monitoring via HWInfo showed the controller staying between 55-62℃, with speeds consistently above 5GB/s. I actually had a moment of panic when the system wouldn't boot because the fan cable was too long and interfering with the motherboard power delivery, but a quick cable management fix sorted it out. Idle temps are now 42-48℃. Stress tests confirm the speeds are no longer fluctuating, and the hardware fault is officially dead.
