I have been contemplating making this post but I feel as though I have no other option. This is also probably going to be a long-winded post, but I will do my best to summarize my experience with this "stuttering" or "freezing" issue I have seemed to be plagued with since I originally built my PC in October 2017.
I built a PC with the following specs back in October 2017. The ">" denotes a transition of a part change I have made up until the creation of this post. There are a few recent changes mentioned below, those are referring to the last hardware item in the transitions.
I built a PC with the following specs back in October 2017. The ">" denotes a transition of a part change I have made up until the creation of this post. There are a few recent changes mentioned below, those are referring to the last hardware item in the transitions.
- Intel Core i7-7700k > delidded and overclocked
- Asus ROG Strix z270e motherboard
- EVGA 1080 FTW Hybrid > EVGA 1080ti FTW3 > Asus RTX 3080 (recent change) (currently running the RTX 3080 on MSI Afterburner)
- Corsair Vengeance RGB 16GB 3000MHz DDR4 > Kingston Fury Renegade 32GB 3600MHz DDR4 (recent change) (XMP'd to 3600MHz)
- EVGA 550W G3 PSU > Seasonic Focus GX-850
- Number of Samsung Evo SSDs and Seagate 1TB HDD > 2 SK hynix m.2's (1tb and 2tb) and Seagate 1TB HDD (recent change) (all my data is on my m.2s right now, the HDD is empty)
- A mix of Corsair and Noctua fans
- Cryorig H7 > Corsair H100i v2
- Corsair 460x RGB case
- Remove overclock, revert back to system defaults (Was happening before ever overclocking) (my temps have always seemed to be good before and after overclocking, especially after delidding)
- Originally though it was a GPU issue, replaced with 1080ti
- Nvidia drivers updates/rollbacks and clean installs with DDU
- Fresh install of Win10
- G-sync on/off, vertical sync on/off in games
- Other Nvidia control panel option adjustments
- Thought PSU was the issue, replaced with Seasonic PSU
- Ran memtests on Corsair memory, tests always passed
- Lots of general Win10 and other software troubleshooting
- Hardware checks (loose cables, use different cables, reseat CPU, reapply thermal paste, temperature checks, etc.)
- Different source outputs, different cables
- Different GPU management software
- I known I am missing a TON of other things here but like I said this is just some I can think of right now
- Etc. etc. etc.
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