SyCoREAPER OP t1_ivnjb2g wrote on November 9, 2022 at 6:33 AM

Reply to comment by thenatar007 in TIFU by working on my wife's laptop while sleep deprived by SyCoREAPER

Windows was so erratic that I wouldn't trust the drive to throttle itself. Had th processor been boosting and the 3070 active, the drives would have been heatsoaked to oblivion. If they didn't act write in Windows, gaming certainly wouldn't have done it any favors

Buruutsuki t1_ivs6nib wrote on November 10, 2022 at 5:24 AM

The good news is that the thermal throttling is controlled by the firmware of the NVMe drive and not by Windows. It is likely because of this that Windows behaved erratically, as the OS relies on quick reads and writes to be responsive. Once those IOPS drop sharply due to the thermal throttle, user experience goes from smooth to choppy real quick.