Question CPU possible bottleneck for 4070 Ti ?

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So i have bought a 4070Ti. I am currently playing Cyberpunk 2070 fully maxed with RT on at 1440P. It runs silky smooth for about 3-4 seconds and then does a quick stutter and it make a weird noise when it stutters, it then runs silky smooth for another 3-4 sec before a quick stutter and the same pattern repeats itself. My CPU is a Core i7 9700K OC @ 5 Ghz. As most of you know this is an 8 core CPU. Do you know if this could be bottle necking it? Weirdly though over the weekend it ran maxxed for two days running without any problems, then on Sunday it started the stuttering again. Does anyone have this issue.
Oh it does this on other games as well like Witcher 3 and then will run fine again another day.
 
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It could be that the maxxed-out RT is causing this because the i7-9700K is a great gaming CPU and you have it OC'ed to 5GHz. Having said that, it's really hard to guess what causes something that's only intermittent because, as you said, it was working fine at some point. I checked some CPU charts and found something interesting:
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The i7-9700K averages 65.4FPS and that's at stock settings. Your overclocked 9700K should find this to be easy but using RT can significantly increase the CPU load. I don't think that it's your VRAM because you have 12GB and you're only at 1440p. The RTX 4070 Ti has been tested on this game several times by several different reviewers at...
So i think I've found the problem. I've reset my BIOS but not turned the 5Ghz overclock on yet. I then re-installed the 4070Ti driver. However i chose to click on customise when installing the driver and selected a "Clean Install" it took well over 10 mins to install. I re-booted and everything was fine. Game runs no stutter. I've read there could be an issue with my old GTX drivers and the new RTX if the old GTX isn't uninstalled properly. I did uninstall it but only through device manager. The clean install definitely changed something hence why it took so long. I can't thank you guys enough for all of your help. So many good suggestions but i've chosen Avro Arrow as the best answer after suggesting driver issues. Thanks again.
Well, thank you! I wasn't expecting that (but I'll take it...heheheheh), I was just spitballing. I'm glad that it worked though because I know that there's nothing worse than glitches in games when you've spent so much time and money putting a rig together.

Enjoy your PC, that's what it's for! 😉 👍