Ok so some back story.
For about a year I was running my rig as follows.
MB - Asus TUF Gaming B670M-Plus Wifi
CPU - 5800X3D
GPU - RX 7900XT
RAM - Corsair Vengeance PRO RGB 4x16 3600mhz
I Only play a few games. Mainly playing DMZ on the MWII engine. I would also record using Stream Labs OBS. I was able to get about 120-140 FPS consistently while doing this. I never had any issues with stuttering, lag, crashing or anything.
Just because I was wanting to be able to get the most out of my 165hz monitor and well upgrading and building is fun(usually). I decided to go with
MB - ASUS TUF Gaming B650 Plus - Wifi
CPU - 9900X3D
GPU - 9070XT (currently running 7900XT)
RAM - G Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB 2 packages of 2x16 6000mhz
After swapping parts I started over with a complete re-install of windows, downloaded all drivers and set up EXPO in my Bios. I immediately had booting issues when setting to EXPO. I had reset the CMOS several times and found I could only boot when RAM was at default setting of 4800mhz. I was able t get it stable when setting EXPO and lowering the speed to 5600Mhz.
Moving on I then had DirectX driver crashes when trying to play DMZ. I would sometimes get an unknown error, sometimes it would say "we see your GPU is overclocked, This could be the issue" Not verbatim but essentially what it was telling me. So I put in my 7900XT and the game wasn't crashing at all. I found that I can get roughly 200FPS with my 7900XT until I open up Streamlabs. I lose about 40fps consistently. When I start recording I get intermittent dips in FPS down all the way to 80fps. i also get visual stutters and almost "skipping" in my game.
I have downloaded OCCT, Frameview, HWmonitor and other programs to see if i can correlate the drops to any power dips, spikes. temperature spikes or anything like that. There is nothiing. I've ran Bench mark tests, stress tests and have found no issues with anything.
I updated my Bios to the latest setting, removed 2 sticks of RAM to only be running 2x16, just in cases there was a timing issue between the 2 different sets. I've tried different recording software and get pretty much the same results. So I tried playing the game without recording. I'm still getting the stuttering and skipping. Not quite as bad but very noticeable when playing. I did cap my FPS in game to 165fps. When the game skips It will drop down about 20-30fps for a split second. Sometimes so fast the monitoring software wont show the dip. Others it shows my GPU going from 90% utilization to 60% utilization. I don't believe my CPU is trying to compensate because the CPU utilization doesn't spike when the GPU dips.
I've ran into issues over the years and have always been able to figure it out. I'm not a super expert so i don't know what I'm missing. I do know I'm beyond frustrated and I'm about to just go back to my AM4 setup. Any help, info or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
