Mid range board with a high end CPU that is known to be an absolute guzzler at the tap.
Make sure to keep your VRMs cool. Id even go as far as to say your VRMs possibly might be thermal throttling.
Yeah its amazing how long theyve held onto the X-Fi branding when its diverged so far from its original concept and meaning.
With that said. It being a Creative product used to mean something too. Now it means nothing and the brand is more or less a walking corpse.
I had a legit moment where i lifted the mouse up to flick the off switch then got confused why there was no switch... I was holding my 502 X. Ive gotten so used to flicking the switch on my G900 to save power overnight that I still did it unconsciously.