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Puzzled Mind

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  1. Hello everyone! I am experiencing a strange behaviour from what I can tell caused by my GPU. While my FPS is fine, it stutters for 0.2 seconds every second and while it is stuttering my GPU makes a buzzing or a whining noise when I try to play certain games (Apex legends, Division 2). It used to work fine before but there is a weird story behind it so I am going to tell it just in case it is relevant. The story: So I built a pc around 3 years ago. But I didn't buy a new PSU as I had an old but good one so stuck it in. After a year of heavy use, I think the PSU gave its last breath, frying some other parts as it passed away. At that time I was very busy with my education and I didn't have a lot of money so I left it be for a year. When I came back I salvaged and tested which parts were dead and it turns out only the motherboard was fried. I had the official customer service repair it, bought a new psu (very basic 750W fsp hydro) and rebuilt the same system. Everything worked fine for a month or two when suddenly the PC hung so I had to force shut it down and it wouldn't even get power again. I went to the service again and they said that my CPU was dead now. I said well I need a new pc so I spared some money and built my current rig a month after. Old rig: intel i5 7400, MSI z170i pro gaming ac, G.skill ripjaws 8gb 2400 mhz single stick, MSI rx480 8gb gamingx, generic hdd. New rig: ryzen 5 1600, ASRock b450m pro4, same ram, same gpu, intel 660p 512gb nvme ssd. The said problem didn't occur at any point of the lifespan of the "old rig". It started with the "new rig". I have been trying to solve it with various methods I could think of (clean installing AMD drivers, downgrading drivers etc.). I even considered the new ssd as the problem as it is a tlc one and may be causing stutter because of paging so I disabled it and it didn't help. The only interesting thing I could discover is when I set the power limit to -20% or even less through MSI afterburner the stuttering and the whining lessens significantly, as do my fps... I did a benchmark from userbenchmarks and the results are attached below. The stutter and whining was present when the GPU benchmark was running. It unsurprisingly says my gpu is performing way below expectations... Another funny point is I don't have any system stutter, mouse stutter, audio cracking or any other type of system wide problem, only the application with heavy graphics load has this issue. I play Rainbow six: Siege with nearly max settings with %75 T-AA resolution with no stutter and high fps but when I turn the T-AA resolution to %100 I start to get stutters. These are all the clues and findings I could gather and think are relevant. Sorry for the relatively long text, I tried to give as much info to you PC experts as I can for you to identify the problem and help me. I am completely lost and frustrated at this point... Thank you all in advance for taking your time and helping me. I wish you all a good day!
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