Experiencing frame drops.

[Zinatrafan]

HDD's: Kingston 120GB(Windows), SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB(drive in question), Mechanical Drive 1TB
Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-Z170-HD3
CPU: I5 6600K Skylake 4.2 GHz
GPU: Gigabyte windforce 1060 stock
RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB)
PSU: Rosewill Capstone-G750, Capstone G Series 750W Modular Power Supply, 80 PLUS Gold Certified, Single +12V Rail, SLI & Crossfire
Case: Mastercase 5
CPU cooler: 212 evo

Power mode is set to high performance, drive in question has no copy of windows installed and windows was a fresh install.

http://imgur.com/a/RwvQY this is what the frame drop looks like in afterburner. I am willing to supply any extra info that is needed, thank you.

 

[SgtScream]

Are you running a fan curve in msi afterburner? Try not running msi afterburner while gaming and see if the issue persists.
I had stuttering issues when configuring msi afterburner's fan curve.

 

[Zinatrafan]

Are you running a fan curve in msi afterburner? Try not running msi afterburner while gaming and see if the issue persists.
I had stuttering issues when configuring msi afterburner's fan curve.

the frame drops persist often when afterburner is not running at all, i started afterburner to catch them in the act and give a way to prove that it was an actual problem

 

[SgtScream]

Temperatures look good in afterburner. You have all of these drives. Can you do a clean windows install on one of them to see if the issue persists? This will rule out a possible software problem.

 

[Zinatrafan]

Temperatures look good in afterburner. You have all of these drives. Can you do a clean windows install on one of them to see if the issue persists? This will rule out a possible software problem.

it appears as though reinstalling a newer version of NVIDIA drivers has fixed the problem