According to our information, the idle temperature of this product is normally lower. A temperature of 60 °C in idle mode is rather high and could indicate insufficient cooling or poor air circulation in the system. We recommend checking the cooling.

The Kingston NV3 SSD is not directly compatible with the Asus Z97-K motherboard as it is an M.2 NVMe SSD with PCIe 4.0 interface. However, the Asus Z97-K motherboard does not natively support M.2 NVMe SSDs as it is based on the Z97 chipset, which does not natively support M.2 NVMe. However, it might be possible to use an M.2 NVMe SSD if the motherboard has an M.2 slot and BIOS support is available, but the speed would be limited to PCIe 2.0 x2.

For the Kingston NV3 SSD with product ID SNV3S/1000G, the maximum random 4K read/write values are not specified in the available sources. The sources only list the sequential read and write speeds, but no specific values for random 4K reads and writes.

Here, the NV3 1TB runs as a system hard drive and gets around 40-50 degrees in normal operation. But the board also has its own heat sink for the M2 slots. So temperatures above 80 degrees are definitely not normal and can also damage the memory.