Question I need help pls, PC requires 2nd restart to play games smoothly after getting new PSU (XMP no longer works)

[Arizonaguy]

Hi I am requesting help for an issue I can’t really look up properly. It’s kind of a puzzle.

I recently updated to a 4090 on my older 9900K Aorus Master setup and I bought a new PSU with the newer 4090 ready Corsair PSU but for some reason my rig had problems booting up until I reset the mobo bios. Then XMP wouldn’t work anymore. If I turned XMP on it would keep refusing to post until it was off.

I kinda let it go for now because I have more upgrading to do in the future such as new and more ram both before getting a new CPU and after and other things planned.

But the weirdest thing started happening. Anytime I played heavy triple AAA games likes Indiana Jones GC and FF7 Rebirth they would have micro stutters and frame hesitations every 2 seconds upon starting the PC the first time in the day. But if I exit out of game and reboot the whole PC, the 2nd time it works perfectly smooth like I would expect the system to run.

What in the world could this be related to?

My guess is that something something about memory and it pre loading or something and it’s smooth after restart somehow? That barely makes sense even as a theory. Not sure it’s even XMP related. But it’s the only think that has been “wrong” lately. Everything else is up to date.

Can anyone help solve this puzzle or heard of such a thing before or have clues to what it might be about?

First time I start the PC and game for the day it has hiccups and micro-stutters and then upon PC reboot, it works smooth as expected.

Windows 11 all updates as of today
4090 up to date
9900k on Aorus Master Z390 up to date firm and bios
16 Gigs Gskill Vengence 14cl (which was good at the time for the mobo with XMP)
Samsung M.2

Thanks!

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

The only thing you've stated about the PSU is this;
the newer 4090 ready Corsair PSU
You forgot to mention the model of the unit. We can tell it's a Corsair unit.

9900k on Aorus Master Z370 up to date firm and bios
Gigabyte have a number of Z3790 chipsetted motherboards under the Aorus lineup, which one do you have? On that note, for the sake of relevance, what BIOS version are you on for your motherboard?

I recently updated to a 4090 on my older 9900K Aorus Master setup
What GPU were you on prior? Did you run DDU prior to the GPU swap?

16 Gigs Gskill Vengence 14cl (which was good at the time for the mobo with XMP)
Corsair are the only ones who have a Vengeance series of rams(and other devices) in their portfolio, G.SKill have Ripjaws/Trident/Flare...you're amalgamating the two, so which one is it that you have?

Moved thread from Memory section to Systems section.

 

[Arizonaguy]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

The only thing you've stated about the PSU is this;
the newer 4090 ready Corsair PSU
You forgot to mention the model of the unit. We can tell it's a Corsair unit.

9900k on Aorus Master Z370 up to date firm and bios
Gigabyte have a number of Z3790 chipsetted motherboards under the Aorus lineup, which one do you have? On that note, for the sake of relevance, what BIOS version are you on for your motherboard?

I recently updated to a 4090 on my older 9900K Aorus Master setup
What GPU were you on prior? Did you run DDU prior to the GPU swap?

16 Gigs Gskill Vengence 14cl (which was good at the time for the mobo with XMP)
Corsair are the only ones who have a Vengeance series of rams(and other devices) in their portfolio, G.SKill have Ripjaws/Trident/Flare...you're amalgamating the two, so which one is it that you have?

Moved thread from Memory section to Systems section.

The PSU is the Corsair RM1000e (upgraded from EVGA 850 Gold)

The Mobo is the Aorus Master Z390 (Master is the version as opposed to pro or Elite) and its running F11 drivers, the latest update of the recent year.

Before this Gigabyte 4090 I had an EVGA 2080 and no I didn’t do the DDU driver cleaning because I read it’s not necessary on modern nvidia but do you think that has the potential to be a culprit?

Ram is G.Skill Trident Z which worked perfectly in XMP mode with the mobo, cpu and even the new 4090.

For a few days I ran the 4090 on the old EVGA PSU and that ran fine in XMP mode.

But even then I’m not sure if the stutter on first start, fix on PC restart symptom is necessarily even because of the PSU/XMP issue it’s just a clue.

Thanks.