Microstutter in gaming

Supertoaster77

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Jul 11, 2013
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So I get this strange microstutter in pretty much all games. It used to be significantly worse when useless background programs were running, but I've uninstalled a lot of junk and it's gotten much more bearable but is still noticeable and annoying. Games seem to drop frames periodically, with the period ranging from around one to five seconds. Interestingly enough in Overwatch turning on vsync made it worse. It seems not to matter what fps I get. as it happens above and below 60 fps.
Specs:
Asus X99-A mobo
i7-5820k @ 3.3 GHz (12 cpus)
Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 ti
16 gigabyte DDR4 RAM at ~2133 MHz
Windows 10
Monitor refresh rate is 60 hertz