Constant stuttering/heavy frametime spikes across 6 builds (dead serious)

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36Chambers
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Constant stuttering/heavy frametime spikes across 6 builds (dead serious)

Post by 36Chambers » 12 Oct 2021, 03:13

Hey all hope everyone's doing well, I am ashamed to admit after almost a year (at least 8-9 months) I can't possibly find out what is causing this constant stutter/frametime spike in every single game I play no matter the specs I throw at it I have tried both AMD and Nvidia GPUs (6700xt and now a 3070 tuf) despite getting great frames at first it seems roughly every few seconds I get a dip (tf2 for instance starts off great at a constant 144, a slight dip causes a slight stutter but then roughly every 15 seconds or so it jumps down to 90 or slightly lower resulting in a huge slowdown).

These troubleshooting steps are copied from an old post I made a month back on techpowerup and done on the old Powerspec g510 I returned (6700xt, 5600x, asus prime b550m-a, G skill Ripjaw 2x16gb 3200mhz xmp profile, high power 650w 80+ gold), ultimately we came to a possible conclusion it could be electrical related, make a long story short my house is roughly 80+ years old an electrician came out and inspected the wiring and it wasn't holding up well I am also connected with the kitchen power. I was approved to get free repairs so I'm waiting on that currently but I'm still unsure if this is truly the answer.


Disabled PBO (prebuilt manufacturers enabled it even though he had stock cooler)
Updated all drivers via AMD Auto detect
Made sure Ryzen Master was running on the default mode
Updated bios
Disabled XMP (and setting different memory times)
Increased DRAM voltage
Disabling Radeon Software Auto OC tuner
Disabled Freesync
Disabled Vsync
Disabled Enhanced Sync
Increased memory clock
Decreased core clock
Cleaning old drivers with the AMD cleanup utility
Disabled PCIE power saving
Disabled 10-bit pixel format
Disabled Microsoft game bar
Disabled discord overlay
Set audio channel to "stereo"
Tried every single GPU driver
Increased the card's power limit via MSI Afterburner
Updated Ryzen Master
Set refresh rate to 60hz (from 144)
Set games to run at 1080p
Ran memtest86 no errors after 4 hours
Ran crystaldisk, ssd came up as healthy.
Reseated GPU
Replaced RX 6700xt with Zotac 950 (lowest fps,rest and settings but stability in frametimes were overall good)

Just got back from returning that build and got the g707 (Asus Tuf 3070, 3700x, Cooler master ML240L, Neo Forza 2x16gb 3200mhz) I'm unsure of the PSU I tried peeking inside but I didn't see a label on the side, maybe it's on the other side or worst case no named brand. Sorry for the big post just unsure on where else to go from here if anyone has ever experienced something on this scale or have any advice please let me know thank you.

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