Games stuttering / dropping frames with High End PC

[Frazman00]

Hi all,

 

I've looked at numerous ways to eliminate stutter, but nothing's really worked... So here goes: 

 

Recently my power supply blew and I took it in to the store that custom built it for me under warranty. All was good and they replaced the hard-drive and the cpu cooler, because apparently it had died too as a result... They also ended up giving me new ram, as I realised they had damaged my original corsair vengeace rgb ram sticks when installing the cooler. So now I have G.Skill Trident Z RGB 300MHz Ram...

 

All was good and seemed to be running fine (wasnt really playing many games last week) and then the other day I went to play farcry 5 and started experiencing really bad microstutter... This was unbearable, so I stopped playing. I then went to play rust and experienced stuttering there too... The stutters were less frequent, but more prolonged... I have NEVER experienced stutter in games on my GTX 1080, i7 8700k system...

 

I thought it may have been the graphics drivers, so I reinstalled them - still stuttered.

I then thought that it was only games on my HDD because CSGO (on my ssd) seemed to be running fine. So defragged my HDD and ran Seagate's diagnostic check on it - it passed the diagnostic check and defragging did not help.

I have ran intel's Processor diagnostic tool and microsoft's own memory diagnostic tools, both passed with flying colours...

GPU and CPU temps are both stable, so I don't think it's them... although I did experience some really bad lag/mouse cursor jitter after running something cpu intensive the day I noticed the stutter (can't remember what it was though...)

Played csgo tonight and now realise that it is stuttering too (although much less frequent)...

When playing pubg I am also dropping frames significantly, going from 160-180fps to 60fps when the stutters happen - which is not fun at all...

I am planning on contacting the system builder tomorrow, but just wanted some input from you guys first...

 

Can anyone advise me on anything else that could be causing this?

 

Thanks in advance. 

[.Apex.]

@Frazman00

did you have 2 RAM sticks before? and if so, do you have only one RAM stick now? 

[.Apex.]

@Frazman00

Could also be that you didn't enable XMP profile for the RAM, so it's running at 2133mhz instead of 3000mhz.

[Frazman00]

1 hour ago, syn2112 said:

@Frazman00

did you have 2 RAM sticks before? and if so, do you have only one RAM stick now? 

Only the brand has changed, the ram is the same speed and 2 x 8gb 300MHz. XMP is enabled, and I have checked this using wmic in cmd.

(the memory is in dual channel, thus the issue is originating elsewhere).

[nick name]

1 hour ago, Frazman00 said:

Only the brand has changed, the ram is the same speed and 2 x 8gb 300MHz. XMP is enabled, and I have checked this using wmic in cmd.

(the memory is in dual channel, thus the issue is originating elsewhere).

Are the RAM timings different?  

[Frazman00]

15 hours ago, nick name said:

Are the RAM timings different?  

They are both CL15 RAM; the latency in the tech specs is slightly different, though : G.skill - Latency Timings CL15 (15-16-16-35), Corsair -  (15-17-17-35).

Is this significant? and could it cause such issues?

[Reznik]

Honestly, re-installing Windows these days is pretty quick and easy so if it were my system I'd do that first and see if issue remains.