Question System Stuttering (Fps drops), Looking for some help!

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System Specs

Mobo: msi MPG X570 Gaming Pro Carbon Wifi
CPU: Ryzen 3600x
GPU: Geforce RTX 2070 Super
PSU: Corsair Ax1000
RAM: DDr3 rgb 3600mhz (dram freq: 2133)

Recently over the past 4 or 5 months i've been having trouble with my last computer as it had short circuited and caused sufficient damage to my previous build, Which caused me to rebuild I replaced everything in my build except my RAM and storage at this point. For the most part in all of my games I get some stutter, to further explain this Whenever I start switching my weapons in borderlands 3 I drop instantly 40-50 fps, whenever I go to the box in Black ops zombies I Drop 40-50 fps. In destiny 2 I occasionally got stutter going into a shop menu and/or starting a PVP game.

So heres the current performance of the pc, In hwinfo Cpu cores tend to max out at around 69^C in the most rare of cases but average 52^C with a hyper212 evo black edition, GPU temps never rise above 58^C at least according to MSI afterburner and clock speeds are at max 1995 MHZ most of the time(For some reason they used to cap at 2010 with my prev gpu but doesn't seem to make a difference. The cpu is running on Amd balanced power plan at 4.2 ghz maxed according to Task manager/hwinfo.

Now there are some things that I will point out that i did during the build that scared me slightly, 1. when i was replacing an old cpu cooler i had put the hyper212 evo in and put quite the pressure on it and it felt as though It made a slight creak and some dust lifted, but cpu seems to be working fine. 2. one of the SSDs is missing a part of the connector where the power line goes in which i hadn't noticed until recently. And 3. whenever i'm under load I hear quite the noise from what i believe is my cpu fans going through the aluminum slits on the cpu cooler which is annoying and sometimes I hear a slight thwack which feels like its coming from the ssds(currently 2 in my build). And lastly I notice during these stutters that my cpu will sometimes react with a temp spike up of about +5-10 degrees(which i imagine isn't thermal throttling? as i it only maxes at 69 degrees at the max)



Overall I think It might be the ssd's as they were part of the old hardware which my old pc got short circuited during a power outage. I'm not the most tech savvy when it comes to this stuff but i have tried alot of solutions and updating drivers, bios, defragmentation, system wiping(clean installs), nvidia performance settings, etc. But if anyone has any advice or possible solutions feel free to shoot them at me cause i really want to get this fixed!
 
So after running xmp memory went up to 1600 mhz clock, which although is an imporvement i'd like to also add that the clock I had it on my previous computer was 2133mhz the reason i remember this was trying to run it too high would just crash windows so i settled on 2133 mhz, the only thing i can think of is amd ryzen master or some other app is overriding the memory clocks, and although it runs better im still getting stuttering which is really making me peculiar at this rate, theres only 3 things that i can even think of from the top of my head and that its either the two pieces of hardware that i haven't replaced yet i.e the RAM and the SSDS( as i've heard that sometimes storage devices can cause stutters but crystaldiskinfo said the drives were at 100%) Im also running a dual monitor setup but one of the monitors can only run at 60z(side monitor main is 144hz) and maybe theres too much mounting pressure on the cpu?