Recently, I have been experiencing a lot of stutters when gaming, which appeared out of nowhere as before the performance was flawless.
While monitoring system resources, I noticed that when they appear, the cpu spikes close or exactly to 100% and then quickly drops to whatever value it was at before. This usually happens in open world games at random, but frequent intervals, but I also noticed it happening in CS:GO, which I believe to be a game where I really shouldn't be having such issues.
What I've tried so far is: disabling every cpu power management setting in bios, but turning them back on when it didn't help, setting performance mode in control panel to high performance, setting performance mode in nvidia control panel to high performance, doing a clean install of windows, disabling memory xmp in bios, but turned it back on again as nothing improved and replacing thermal paste on CPU. I have had an issue like this about 2 years ago, but back then it was a mistake made by me where I didn't insert both ram modules in the correct slots, so they weren't running in dual channel mode. This time my only suspicion is the PSU as I've had a lot of power surges in my area lately and I'm thinking that maybe they affected its power distribution, but would like to hear any thoughts from someone who is much more qualified with things like this than me.
PC specs are:
Motherboard: Asus Strix Z390-E Gaming
GPU: Asus Strix 2080TI OC
CPU: Intel I7-9700K 3.6Ghz (but I run it on turbo mode at 4.6Ghz)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32Gb (16x2) - running it on xmp at 3200mhz
P.S.: I have also noticed that the CPU spikes from idle at about 8% to about 20 or 30% when moving the mouse in certain applications, which I'm sure was not happening before.
While monitoring system resources, I noticed that when they appear, the cpu spikes close or exactly to 100% and then quickly drops to whatever value it was at before. This usually happens in open world games at random, but frequent intervals, but I also noticed it happening in CS:GO, which I believe to be a game where I really shouldn't be having such issues.
What I've tried so far is: disabling every cpu power management setting in bios, but turning them back on when it didn't help, setting performance mode in control panel to high performance, setting performance mode in nvidia control panel to high performance, doing a clean install of windows, disabling memory xmp in bios, but turned it back on again as nothing improved and replacing thermal paste on CPU. I have had an issue like this about 2 years ago, but back then it was a mistake made by me where I didn't insert both ram modules in the correct slots, so they weren't running in dual channel mode. This time my only suspicion is the PSU as I've had a lot of power surges in my area lately and I'm thinking that maybe they affected its power distribution, but would like to hear any thoughts from someone who is much more qualified with things like this than me.
PC specs are:
Motherboard: Asus Strix Z390-E Gaming
GPU: Asus Strix 2080TI OC
CPU: Intel I7-9700K 3.6Ghz (but I run it on turbo mode at 4.6Ghz)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32Gb (16x2) - running it on xmp at 3200mhz
P.S.: I have also noticed that the CPU spikes from idle at about 8% to about 20 or 30% when moving the mouse in certain applications, which I'm sure was not happening before.