Defective 7950x?

[snowwsquire]

I built a pc earlier this month and everything was fine until about 2 days ago. I've had audio crackling and weird bugs, like apps & dialogs randomly thinking they should be scaled to a different size. As well as weird visual inconsistenticies in games. Like flickers or sprite randomly being scaled up 20x

I figured this was Windows 11 weirdness and generally ignored it. Until I tried to record a song in Reaper with my Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 interface. I got horrible crackling and a unusable sound. I figured this was a problem with the audio drivers so I tried reinstalling it, that didn't work so I tried different USB cables, different USB ports, and even using another interface I had. After realizing the 2nd interface also had an issue I realized it must be a different cause. I did some googling and found a program called latencymon which alerted me to the fact that the Nvidia Driver was taking 2500 microseconds to respond. (This screenshot shows 1700 but it got worse)

 

 

 

 

At this point I cut my losses and just reinstalled windows since its a new installation anyways. I ran 10 passes of Memtest86+ so I'm pretty its not memory corruption but the problem stilll persists, I have no idea what could be the cause as these are all new parts except for the 3060ti which i bought ~January last year. Thinking the 3060ti was the problem, I removed it and used the IGPU of the 7950x, issues continued. In desperation of it not being a cpu or motherboard issue; I got a new ram kit. The issues continue. Is there a higher chance of this being a cpu or motherboard issue? Or maybe something else entirely.

 

PC Specs:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 4.5 GHz 16-Core Processor  ($568.99 @ Newegg) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black 82.52 CFM CPU Cooler  ($109.95 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard  ($499.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory  ($149.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Samsung 990 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($289.99 @ B&H) 
Video Card: MSI VENTUS 3X GeForce RTX 3060 Ti LHR 8 GB Video Card 
Case: Fractal Design Meshify 2 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($159.99 @ B&H) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply 
Total: $1778.90
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[WinteryCart]

Might not fix your issue, but I had similar issues that I fixed by rolling back a windows security update, reinstalling almost all of my drivers, and most importantly uninstalling armoury crate. I was getting a blue screen everyday for two weeks, but after doing what I mentioned earlier I didn’t have any more issues. If that doesn’t work try seeing if connecting to a different monitor/using a different display cable helps as I’ve heard of some people having similar issues caused by a cheap/faulty cable somewhere in their system.

[snowwsquire]

20 hours ago, WinteryCart said:

Might not fix your issue, but I had similar issues that I fixed by rolling back a windows security update, reinstalling almost all of my drivers, and most importantly uninstalling armoury crate. I was getting a blue screen everyday for two weeks, but after doing what I mentioned earlier I didn’t have any more issues. If that doesn’t work try seeing if connecting to a different monitor/using a different display cable helps as I’ve heard of some people having similar issues caused by a cheap/faulty cable somewhere in their system.

I never installed armory crate, I'll try reverting security updates but i've installed the drivers multiple times