Frameskipping in brand new PC

notj0e

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G'day

I recently assembled a new system comprising of the following specs:

i5 8600k
Z370 GAMING 5 (GIGABYTE)
nVidia GTX 1080ti (GIGABYTE AORUS)
Corsair RM650
Samsung 840 EVO 250gb (OS Drive, I have others but they're just for general storage)
TT Floe 360
G.Skill Trident Z RGB 3000C15D

I noticed during some stress testing (FurMark, Heaven, Valley etc.) that the output was almost "skipping" frames, which was odd considering that the FPS wasn't dropping, nor were the temperatures crazy high.

I'm not really sure if this is the GPU, CPU, software, or PSU but the things I have tried are:

Different monitors (both 144hz)
different display cables (DP, DVI, HDMI)
memtest
a fresh install of windows
configuring nVidia control panel
deleting and updating all drivers
reducing CPU and RAM clockspeeds

Any advice on what direction I should take from here would be greatly appreciated because I'm honestly lost for ideas.

Feel free to ask any questions as well. Thanks :^)
 

notj0e

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I just chucked in an r9 280x to see if it would have a similar effect and the "frameskipping" is non existent. Does that mean the fault lies in my GPU? If so, in what way? There's no FPS drops, no artifacts, temps are fine, no strange noises, fan speeds are fine etc. This has really got me stumped...