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I appreciate your help here, but I don't think adding more fans will help. I already have two front intake fans, plus a rear exhaust fan, which is usually the best setup for a standard air-cooled Mid-ATX tower like mine. If these temperatures are really that bad, then I will just RMA the drive, although the other responses on this thread seem to suggest that it's not super clear-cut if these temps are bad.

Yes. It hits 75 max, usually sits in the mid 60s-low 70s while I'm playing a game directly off the drive. When playing games off another drive, it sits around 60-63. This is for the "drive temperature 5" reading in HWinfo; the other two sensor readings for this drive show a max of 55C.

Yes. This is the motherboard: https://www.asrock.com/MB/AMD/X570M Pro4/index.asp

I have an EVGA XC Ultra RTX 2070 Super.

So, after moving my SSD to the slot under the heatsink (which has a thermal pad on the bottom), the temperatures have definitely dropped. While playing Wolfenstein, with the game installed on the NVMe and the GPU averaging around 63 C, the drive hit a max temperature of 75 degrees. It fluctuated between 65-75. Before I left on Friday, it was hitting a max of 81 playing the same level in Wolfenstein. To see if the GPU was having a significant effect, I moved the game over to another SSD (just a regular 2.5inch sata drive). Playing the same level, the NVMe never hit higher than 63C. Is the 75C temperature still too high? Seeing as this is supposed to be a drive for games, if that's too high even with a heat sink I may try to RMA it. It's too late to return it and use the money for an NVMe that doesn't get too hot.

As mentioned in my original post, my SSD is a Crucial P1 1TB m.2 NVME. After reading your comment, I just realized that I do not have my M.2 ssd installed in the slot that has a heatsink; my motherboard has two M.2 slots and my SSD is currently plugged into the one next to the heatsink rather than under it. I will move it from one slot to the other later today or tomorrow night. I am visiting family for a day so I may not be able to test this issue further for about 24 hours, but I will post any updates here. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.

Could this thermal throttling lead to decreased performance in games? I've been having issues with FPS dropping randomly in some games and wasn't sure if this could be the cause

I've been thinking of doing a clean install of windows for other reasons anyway, and I just bought a 1TB 2.5 inch SATA SSD to replace a dying HDD. I can try installing my games on that drive both before/after the clean windows install, leaving the NVME empty, to see if the GPU is heating up the NVME. After more googling (not sure why this didn't come up in the initial 30 minutes of searching...) it looks like someone else also posted about a similar issue and Crucial told them "the relevant temperatures (Temperature Sensor 1 and Temperature Sensor 2) are the NAND-Flash temps. They are available at the SMART Data Offset 1 and represent the average temperature for the NANDs. Temperature 5 is the temp of the controller which "could sometimes be higher than 70 degrees Celsius."

Okay. Before I begin that process and figure out where to put my games (since that's my games drive at the moment), is it possible that moving this to the other M.2 slot, a bit farther from the GPU, would lower these temperatures?

Hi, I have a Crucial P1 1TB m.2 NVME drive. It's installed in a the m.2 slot directly beneath my GPU in my AsRock X570m Pro4. As can be seen in the screenshot link below, the "drive temperature 5" reading for this drive has hit 88 degrees in HWInfo while gaming and it looks like 96 degrees just in the last few minutes... not sure why, since I haven't gamed in a bit. My GPU temperature hasn't exceeded 68 degrees. Is this temperature dangerous and could it decrease the drive's performance/cause harm to the drive? I figured it was since it was highlighted red. EDIT: Forgot the link https://imgur.com/a/EFefits

Actually, I was just poking around during a break and saw in my NVIDIA control settings that the DSR setting is set to 2.0. From what I understand, this increases the number of pixels on the screen past the native resolution. Could this be something else causing the problem?

Yeah, last night the frames dropped again, although not as bad. I was getting about 30fps in Wolftenstein after spending some time in the menus upgrading weapons. The only other things I can think to try are DDUing again and updating the chipset drivers. To do the latter I think I'd need to do a clean install, which I won't fully have time for a couple days because of work, but it has been helpful knowing that other people have noticed a similar issue.

So, normally that's what I'd figure - that there was one specific setting tanking everything. However, for the one game with ray tracing, both NVIDIA and Digital Foundry show my card running the game at more than 60fps with ray tracing turned on. I also saw other people in forums and on youtube getting those numbers, so I knew that meant that there was something else afoot. Thank you for recommending this! I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier. I DDU'd the drivers after work and it seems to have done the trick - ran the Wolftenstein benchmark a few times and had it at more than 70fps at max settings + ray tracing with DLSS balanced 4K. Just played an hour of RE7 at 4k without any issue either. Gonna give it another day or two of playing to make sure the problems don't come back again like they did last week. Thanks, good luck to you too! I bought my 2070 Super after a bit over a week of auto refreshing store pages. It just wasn't worth all the extra effort - this is more than twice as powerful as my 970, and should let me play Cyberpunk at 1440p with high settings, DLSS, and some ray tracing features. That's if I don't get the 3080 by then. Might try for the 3070 too, if I can snag one beforehand.

I recently bought an RTX 2070 Super to eventually step-up to a 3080 from EVGA. I've noticed some issues while using the card, and I've been having trouble identifying their source: I play on both my 1440p monitor and my 4K tv. I usually play at 1440p resolution on both, but for some games, I've checked online to see if they can handle 4k. 3 games I've been playing over the last week are Gears of War 4, Resident Evil 7, and Wolftenstein: Youngblood. In each of them, I will start off with great 4k performance (staying at 60fps) and then at random points in each game, my FPS will tank to the 20s or 30s. In each game, I continue having issues even after switching to 1440p resolution. I usually have to exit out of the game and reload to fix the issue, but sometimes even then it persists. I'd normally just think my GPU can't run the games at 4K, but I've seen other people's results with similar hardware and I know it should be able to. For example, Wolftenstien: Youngblood can run at 4k60 using DLSS and RTX at the highest settings on a 2070 Super. When I run the in-game benchmark, I will get 60+fps maybe 2 out of ten times. The other 8 it will average about 18. I don't think it's the GPU itself - the GPU stays cool, never exceeding 66 C, and the fans are on a custom curve I've set. The drivers are updated. I've updated my BIOS and attempted to update my chipset drivers, although the installer says I don't have an AMD system and then it aborts, which is strange. I read somewhere that it may be an issue with my windows registry, although I'm not sure how to change that. This is the same version of windows I was using with an old i7-4790k until earlier this year, although I didn't have issues with my GTX 970. Another issue may be that I have some sort of malware on my PC. Windows Defender and Malwarebytes don't report anything in their scans, but while running the Wolfenstein benchmark last night, my PC randomly started running Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 at the same time, and the background image for my desktop changed (I'm not synced with other PC's and I don't have the background settings set to slideshow). Is this an issue with my chipset or with an infection? Should I just do a clean install of windows? If this isn't the appropriate spot for these questions, I can also try them in a different part of the forums. My PC specs: CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 MOBO: AsRock X570M Pro 4 RAM: 16 GB Kingston HyperX 3200mhz GPU: EVGA RTX 2070 Super XC Ultra Drives: Samsung 840 EVO, Crucial M.2 1TB, OCZ Vertez 3 256 GB, Western Digital 2tb HDD

Thanks! Unfortunately, almost all of the AIB cards are too long for my case. The only other one that I'm aware of being less than 11.4 inches is the EVGA XC3 Black, which I am also keeping an eye on.