Ridiculous.Asesino34 wrote: ↑01 Jan 2026, 01:46Later, he moved back to his old house, where he currently lives (which does have proper grounding), and everything works normally again. He can dodge bullets, in Overwatch he can tank a crazy amount of damage, zero desync.
At least I don’t personally know anyone close to me who has no grounding, otherwise I could tell you for sure whether it’s that or not. But beyond that, this is the most common fix for many people, and I’ve read about it more than 20 times
Let me use the same anecdotal n=1 logic of you as well: I had no grounding on my sockets as well until half a year ago and none of those "issues" were a thing during my play time.
Pure snake oil
1.) There is no "overkill" in terms of hardware, if you want to be the best.valhalla wrote: ↑01 Jan 2026, 03:45Memory: Corsair Dominator Titanium RGB DDR5 RAM 6400
I appreciate your response, but a 4090 or 5080 for CS2 is really overkill. I play at a resolution of 1280x960... (Of course, I also tried higher ones to see if the problem was related to that). I even tried an AMD GPU 9070xt.
The 4090/5080 is bare minimum if you want to play this game at the lowest total system latency possible, especially when paired with a good +500Hz display.
2.) That RAM kit choice looks concerning. Provide a HWInfo or Asrock Timing Configurator screenshot of your current timing profile.
(Present-to-present) Frame rate is a irrelevant metric, latency is what matters.
You cannot claim that for certain, as the variables which I've discussed can still occur to you.
Have you ever ran CPU or RAM (IMC) stress testing software? For example: GSAT, RamTestPro, ycruncher, OCCT, P95?
You could be setting up your UEFI (colloquially referred to as 'BIOS') settings incorrectly.
You could've degraded your 13700K unknowingly due to incorrect settings.
You could be setting up Windows incorrectly.
Not to mention that you should be using wired USB peripherals & offload audio onto 3.5mm port (ideally no mic for least cycles taken up)
Placebo can be a hell of a drug, not to mention that health deteriorates
Modern hardware is the opposite of that.
It's much less plug & play since DDR4 due to the increased signal integrity requirements of higher clock rates.
This to me is a typical sign of some form of lingering instability, either in the IMC (DRAM related) or CPU itself.
I strongly suggest going with a X3D and side-band ECC UDIMMs route.
Switching frequency is moved into >1MHz region, much lower voltage ripple, excellent transient response & excellent EMC.
See Aris' review


