fps stuttering/dropping quickly while loading new areas/loading intense graphics, etc

[LumpParrot]

I have been having serious fps spikes, frame issues and stuttering in many of my games since a few weeks ago and I have tried but I am at my wits end. This PC has always run the games in question flawlessly, and I cannot find the source of the issue.


My specs are:

Windows 10

Processor - Intel - Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor
Motherboard - Asus - MAXIMUS VIII HERO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Ram - Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory
SSD - Corsair - Force LE 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
GPU - Zotac - GeForce GTX 970 4GB AMP! Extreme Core Edition Video Card
PSU - Corsair - RM 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

I have tried:

checking Ram Sticks, they are fine

checking the SSD and regular Hard Drive, games seem to have issues regardless of which drive they are on

making sure voltage is correct, everything is at recommended voltage

to give a bit more in depth explanation, the majority of my games will experience a small stutter or freeze for about one second, this seems to happen whenever I enter a new area, or textures are loading into these areas.

But for one specific game, Skyrim, I will get severe frame drops whenever I look at a graphically intense area or an area with a lot of entities, otherwise it always runs at a smooth 60fps. This started a few weeks ago and I don't believe I changed anything, the one thing I did do was

-"Start, type This PC"
-"Go to properties"
-"advanced system settings in control panel"
-"performance"
-"advanced"
-"change virtual memory"
-"unchecked automatically manage paging file size for all drives"

This was suggested to me because I had a problem viewing all of my ram, but I fixed that another way and just simply changed the paging back to automatic, so that shouldnt be the case.

Here is an example of the micro stuttering in games:

http://imgur.com/Rzs4p23


and here is my annoying skyrim issue, note: its always been modded this way, always been full 60fps until this issue started.

http://imgur.com/acQqNeP

Any suggestions at all would be immensely appreciated.

 

[Lakken]

Run any antivirus and malware programs you got. Clean the pc for dust. DO NOT USE THE VACCUM CLEANER!!! use q-tip and compressed air.


Use HWmonitor or MSI Afterburner to get more information about what happens when fps go down.
With any of those programs you get CPU/GPU usage, temps, fps, memory.

If the temp is high on the CPU, you might have to reapply thermal paste on the cpu.

 

[LumpParrot]

I will try your suggestions and get back to you if replacing the thermal paste and/or doing a thorough cleaning fixes anything, thank you

 

[LumpParrot]

sadly that didn't work, same issues are occouring, tried to even overclock the gpu to see if that helped but it made no difference