Consistent Critical events plus game Crash/stutter

[MADCATMKV]

I have had the occasional weird issue like the taskbar not responding, or game crash/stutter. Event viewer and reliability monitor are showing multiple critical events, and Google has not helped me narrow the issue. I don't think these issues are related, but I just don't know. I have crashed in MW2 multiple times, and I know that game has issues. It's the stutter that is more widespread and hard to pin down. The stutter is not consistent with it randomly dropping low fps.

 

Specs

Microsoft Windows 11 Pro

Intel Core i7-12700KF

Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Pro

Bios F8f

Corsair Vengeance DDR5 32 GB XMP to run at rated 5600 CMK32GX5M2B5600C36

EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 XC3 ULTRA GAMING, 08G-P5-375

Samsung SSD 980 PRO 2 TB C drive

Creative Sound Blaster ZxR Sound Card

Corsair HX750i PSU

CP1500PFCLCD UPS

 

I have restarted the PC. I have run SFC/Scannow. Furthermore, I have run search troubleshooter. I have run over 4 hours of memtest with the XMP profile and 30 minutes of Fur mark. Other than XMP for the ram, I have not overclocked anything. A few months ago, I did a full clean install. A few weeks ago, I had a blue screen and used DDU with new Nvidia drivers.

 

Thank you for your time and expertise.

[Cyberat]

Memtest x64 and 8 passes. BUT according to Intel, your CPU can only handle DDR5 at 4800mhz not 5600mhz.

At 16% increase in memory speed, you will get 1.6% better system performance only, at the cost of 100% instability.

Dial it down to 4800mhz, set CL/CAS timing to Auto, let CPU/MB pick their own comfy timings and leave it alone, those will not get you any speed increase.

 

[MADCATMKV]

I will give it a try. It does make me sad to "slow down" my system, but I prefer stability. I have not had issues with XMP in the past, and this is the first system I have not really overclocked.

[MADCATMKV]

So far it seems better, if it gets bad again I will post again. Thank you.

[Cyberat]

Welcome, I've proven Linus's 10% gain video with my own PC also, just to make sure. It's exactly that in all benchmarks.