Question FPS DROP 1080TI

Konnr

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My computer has been having stuttering issues on games such as Sea of Thieves, Street fighter 6, overwatch etc.

For example in sea of thieves I will be running at a steady 144 frames, randomly it will drop to 90 for a brief moment and then come back. It seemed that removing the HDD improved the stability but not by much. My hunch is that my GPU is old, or that my RAM isn't fast enough. I'm not entirely sure and I'm at a loss here.

Another issue i've noticed is that my GPU isn't being utilized during sea of thieves, it appears to be at 0% in task manager while my cpu fluctuates at about 10 to 20%

Specs:

CPU: i7-12700kf 3.60hz
GPU:1080ti Founders edition
RAM: 16gb 2133 MHz
PSU: Don't remember the brand but it's a 750 watt (old)
SSD: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 120GB (WINDOWS 10 INSTALLED)
SSD FOR GAMES: NTEL SSDPEKNW010T8
(Intel memory and storage tool says this device is no longer supported)
MOTHERBOARD: PRO Z690-A DDR4

Things i've tried:
I removed a HDD that was running at 100% occasionally
I used the program to uninstall graphics card drivers and then reinstalled them fresh
turned off game mode and accelerated gpu settings
tweaked nvida control panel to turn v-sync off, few other settings in nvidia control panel, tried many variations
Checked and updated all drivers I could find
 
Task Manager is completely useless for accurate GPU measure. Check MSI Afterburner/HWInfo/HWMonitor to get more accurate information regarding GPU usage. It'd be worth using HWInfo/HWMonitor in general, or setting up RivaTuner for an overlay while in game to see if your CPU/GPU usage spikes/dips when these slowdowns occur.

Your DRAM is certainly slow, and having a DDR4 platform isn't helping the CPU, but neither one should be causing what you're getting.
 
Task Manager is completely useless for accurate GPU measure. Check MSI Afterburner/HWInfo/HWMonitor to get more accurate information regarding GPU usage. It'd be worth using HWInfo/HWMonitor in general, or setting up RivaTuner for an overlay while in game to see if your CPU/GPU usage spikes/dips when these slowdowns occur.

Your DRAM is certainly slow, and having a DDR4 platform isn't helping the CPU, but neither one should be causing what you're getting.
I downloaded RivaTuner and am not really sure what I should have enabled to verify the issue. I'm thinking the first thing I should do is upgrade ram, any recommendations?
 
I downloaded RivaTuner and am not really sure what I should have enabled to verify the issue. I'm thinking the first thing I should do is upgrade ram, any recommendations?

Even something fairly cheap would be a decent upgrade, but getting DDR4 to run even 3600 starts to become involved.

low latency (16GB kit due to 32GB being very expensive in low latency form):

standard lafency:

If you want to spend time tweaking: