My brother dished out a ton of money for a new GPU. I forgot what he bought but I did fix an issue he was having. I do know it was a GeForce RTX 40 series Super GPU. Made a deal if I was to fix it I would get his old GPU a GeForce RTX 2070 Super and he said it’s a deal.
He is a Windows 10 user so this was a little odd for me. Some tricks I still know from the Windows 2000/XP days.
The issue he was having was the system would shutter. Get 200FPS then drops to zero then back up. Sound would be all gabbled as well.
I ran msconfig and had it use all 16 threads of the CPU. Uninstalled GeForce Experience and made sure the driver was up to date. The last thing I noticed was the motherboard firmware was from 2019 so I found a updated firmware and updated it. When the system booted up the video was all screwed up but after windows settled the video restored and half of the hardware on the system got back to normal. My guess Windows reinstalled drivers for that stuff. I then ran a benchmark called Superposition and ran just fine with no shuttering. He wasn’t too sure and I said you can’t ignore the deal. He then load up some Final Fantasy benchmark and he said it has to hit 16,000 of the score. Well it didn’t hit 16,000 but hit 15,437 but still passed as extremely high. I told him you have to factor in SSD speed and RAM speed as well. If you get rid of the SATA SSD and toss in a M.2 and some faster RAM you would probably hit that 16,000. Since he is in IT as well he knew I wasn’t bullshitting him so I got the old GPU.
So now I can put some RTX love in my new build.
Anyway, if you toss in a new GPU and end up with the system acting up like it’s shuttering and working too hard and have tried the latest drivers I would say update the firmware to the motherboard. If that doesn’t work then I would say reformat and start over.