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yes! forgot about reddit, thanks mang!

also double check that alll cuda cores are enabled in there as well as setting the Phys-x to CPU for testing/troubleshooting

go to nvidia control panel, manage 3d settiings... in there change "optimal power" to "prefer maximum performance" and double check the vsync setting at teh bottom to make sure iit's not set to 'fast' or anything, preferably off for troubleshotting. reboot. test. reply.

Sounds dumb, but... How old is your CMOS battery? You'd NEVER believe the things that little turd can cause. In my years I've seen it be the reason some people decide to upgrade (unknowingly obviously). Also, despite bells and whistles, you may want to consider removing the power supply and taking it's casing off (carefully) to assure that the dust from bi-monthly cleanings hasn't clogged the coils and other internals. This is especially true if your PC is near carpeting/animals. Lastly, depending on your motherboard/case styles & arrangement it may be that you bumped a temperature probe within the GPU or motherboard. Especially after years of constant cleaning (unfortunately there is such thing as too much of a good thing) where even the most non-invasive methods could cause jarring of a product that heats up and cools off for a living (PC parts, namely CPU/GPU). TL:DR- see above ^

less than a year, and not trying to sound rude but instead of dealing with all of that crap and waiting i was wondering if you had a good reason as to why? why the gpu and not the cpu,mobo,psu,etc? you immediately suggested benchmarking and rma. i game daily and don't want to go through all that if there's something concrete you can give me to check. i thought i'd get help from more people on this forum opposed to tom's but maybe i'll post there instead.

I doubt I can still RMA it, I've been using the system for months. Was there a reason you're saying that specifically for the GPU? Just wondered if you have seen others or something. What benchmark utility, because it does it even if I keep the clocks stock.

So over the course of the last 6-months I upgraded my system so that the only thing from my original build is 2 drives. So over the last few months I've noticed that during most games I play, I'll get these random spots on MSi Afterburner (or whatever monitoring software I have running since the beginning) where everything GPU related drops down. During this time either the game I'm playing freezes for up to 45 seconds (Ark), drops to 6-9fps (Fallout 4), or crashes to Desktop. Whatever it is causes the GPU to "forget" there's a game playing... drops in the power, memory, core clock, all of it just drops. There's nothing else consistent about when it happens or why. Only that everything GPU related drops then usually comes back up. I will now list my system then share a few afterburner graphs. PC: Asus Maximus IX Hero Z270 Intel Core i7-7700k @ 4.8Ghz 16Gb G.Skill 3000Mhz DDR4 Trident-Z RGB Asus Strix GTX-1070 OC Edition (Samsung memory not Micron) NZXT Kraken X62 All-In-One CPU cooler Samsung 840 EVO 128Gb SSD/ Seagate SSHD 1Tb/ Seagate 3Tb HDD EVGA Supernova 750 G2 80+ Gold PSU Asus VX238H 1080p 1ms monitor Corsair K70 & Redragon Perdition I see no reason why this would be happening. Over the course of the last few months I've used other GPU software (GPU Tweak2, EVGA Precision X), I've done complete re-installs of Windows, drivers and bios are always up to date... I'm no competitive builder/overclock-er but I know my way around PC's. Any input/questions/comments/concerns please let me know. Here's the top page of Afterburner during a massive freeze in Forza Horizon 3 earlier, it was stuck with the controller vibrating then resumed like nothing happened. Here (below) you can see the sudden spike of 3Gb in the RAM section as well as the 5th CPU thread pegging

As others said, yep no problems. If you used Windows to make a recovery image before you can also just mount those via disk management, but for yours it's just plug and play. It'll also be faster to transfer the stuff from old hard drive to new over the motherboards sata controller than it would to add a middle man drive to transfer between old and new drives, as that'll likely be USB 3.0ish at best.

I'm having this problem in quite a few games thus last week or so. 7700k & 1070 here. 1080p gaming. RES monitor shows action but graphs on after burner show dips in all sections every 2-5 minutes in a lot of games.

Yep. This. It's hard man, quit whatever it is you're spending your money on. I was an addict of heroin, Xanax, coke, weed, alcohol and cigarettes over the course of my life. I've been clean from all mind altering substances since 2011 and haven't smoked a cigarette since 2014. Transferred all the money and love from those things to computers; it's a really long way of saying you can't start with an i7 and 1080ti. Piece by piece get everything from the ground up. Get graphics last as it'll be most expensive and whatever budget card you choose at the beginning will decrease in price until you're ready to order it. If you can't save and buy a $300 console or something you should just sell the case. Because a decent budget pc will be 450-550 at lowest. Decent I said not lowest and not best. But console besting for sure.

This just happened to me, only both sticks are being picked up and utilized but the LED's in one aren't working. Boy am I agitated. But considering I have Kraken x62 (cam software) Aorus Gigabyte z270x gaming k7 (RGB fusion) strix rx480 oc edition 8gb (aura RGB) and this gskill ram ( gskill RGB) Did you order yours from newegg very recently? that and the i7-7700k are the only things we have in common

Thanks for suggesting DDU... never heard of it before and it worked for me. No matter what I did, including deleting from device manager, seemed to work. DDU worked perfectly though. What I did: -Ran DDU, it suggested rebooting into safe mode. -Once in safe mode I checked the boxes in the options menu for "removing Nvidia & AMD folders from C: drive" although they say (not recommended) but this was a sure fire way to remove everything from my previous Nvidia cards as well as the tainted AMD stuff -I clicked clean and restart and as soon as I was back into windows I ran the full installer from AMD's site and accepted the install of ReLive opposed to skipping it and all went very smoothly. Considering I tried everything before this I assume others have as well; that's why I was overly descriptive on what I did. Good Luck!