Massive stuttering, audio popping/cracking in games

[Gmr_Chick]

I wasn't quite sure where to post this. Basically, I've been encountering massive stuttering in games recently. The audio crackles and pops, my USB devices act up (wireless headphones disconnect, among other things) and I've had several BSODs already recently in the past couple weeks or so. It's doing it right now as I type this, in fact. It's very aggravating. I've updated my chipset drivers, audio drivers, LAN drivers, BIOS, GPU, but still the problem continues. Earlier tonight, I managed to fire up LatencyMon just as the issue started and got this:

And, as I've still got the program running, the readings look like this now:

I literally don't know what more to do. I've thought maybe the ethernet controller is bad on my board, as its the notorious Intel i225V, but I'm not sure buying a whole new board would help fix the problem. Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated!

 

[eidairaman1]

Get blue screen viewer and post up your bsods and also event viewer for diagnostics, also while you are at it post up hwinfo64 screenshots with sensors only-post everything from it here

 

[Gmr_Chick]

And screencaps of my HWINFO:

 

[tabascosauz]

@Gmr_Chick I was gonna say, that all still sounds like uncore stability like on AM4.

Problem is, things have changed a bit since AM4. Before, you would have just bumped up VSOC a bit and thrown in the towel and bought a different board if that didn't help. VSOC has a bit of a complicated relationship now and Fabric doesn't like it not only when VSOC is insufficient, but also when it's too high. 1.25V is functionally about as high as you ever want to go now (yes, I know the hard limit is 1.3V).

Unfortunately I haven't ever encountered USB issues yet on AM5 so I can't advise from experience.

When was the last time you clean installed windows?

And all the usual recommendations, make sure CPU is fully stable (even stock) and thoroughly test RAM/Fabric/UCLK (as opposed to AM4 where UCLK really wasn't a standalone thing).

I have had some disconnection issues from i225 (I have Killer E3100, same thing), but installing the actual latest driver from Intel website seems to have stopped all that, as opposed to the default one that Win Update fetches. I don't think that would cause this behaviour you're seeing.

 

[Gmr_Chick]

@Gmr_Chick I was gonna say, that all still sounds like uncore stability like on AM4.

Problem is, things have changed a bit since AM4. Before, you would have just bumped up VSOC a bit and thrown in the towel and bought a different board if that didn't help. VSOC has a bit of a complicated relationship now and Fabric doesn't like it not only when VSOC is insufficient, but also when it's too high. 1.25V is functionally about as high as you ever want to go now (yes, I know the hard limit is 1.3V).

Unfortunately I haven't ever encountered USB issues yet on AM5 so I can't advise from experience.

When was the last time you clean installed windows?

And all the usual recommendations, make sure CPU is fully stable (even stock) and thoroughly test RAM/Fabric/UCLK (as opposed to AM4 where UCLK really wasn't a standalone thing).

I have had some disconnection issues from i225 (I have Killer E3100, same thing), but installing the actual latest driver from Intel website seems to have stopped all that, as opposed to the default one that Win Update fetches. I don't think that would cause this behaviour you're seeing.

Is there a particular setting I should stick to for UCLK? VSOC?

Admittedly, it's been a while since I did a clean install of Windows.