Alright First off Specs
Processor
1 x Intel® Core™ i7-8700K Processor (6x 3.70GHz/12MB L3 Cache)
Processor Cooling
1 x Corsair Hydro Series H55 120mm Liquid CPU Cooler
Memory
1 x 16 GB [8 GB X2] DDR4-3000 Memory Module - Corsair Vengence
Video Card
1 x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 - 8GB - EVGA FTW2 GAMING iCX (VR-Ready) - Single Card
Motherboard
1 x GIGABYTE Z370XP SLI -- RGB Fusion, 3x PCIe x16, 2x USB 3.1 Gen2, 6x USB 3.1 Gen1
Power Supply
1 x 850 Watt - Thermaltake Toughpower Grand RGB 850W Gold Full Modula
Primary Hard Drive
1 x 500 GB WD Blue SSD -- Read: 545MB/s, Write: 525MB/s - Single Drive
Data Hard Drive
1 x - 2 TB HARD DRIVE 7200RPM -
Sound Card
1 x 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard
Network Card
1 x Intel Pro 10/100/1000 Network Card
Operating System
1 x Windows 10 Home
Issue:
After a recent Windows update, my PC started hitching in about every game I play. I have never had an issue with this in the past. always have had good to great performance. the game with boot perfectly fine and even run at high frame rates, however, after about 3 minutes the game will lock up and hit like 20 frames and then bounce back up and then repeat.
Steps I've taken:
I attempted to roll back the update that failed. I reset my pc that failed. I clean installed the Nvidia drivers that failed. I clean boot my pc that failed. I made sure I turned off the game bar in windows and all DVR function from windows and GeForce experience. I've done everything I can think of please help!
I have no Idea what could be causing this issue there are no obvious causes and I just simply don't know how to remedy this. Thank you for the help!
Edit: while looking at MSI Afterburner during a hitch the only stand out is no load limit jumps to max and voltage limit hits zero. My GPU clock speed drops and my CPU usage drops aswell!
