u/Iliketomobit

Specs:

CPU: i7 14700k with corsair nautilus rs 240mm aio

Mainboard: MSI B660m mortar wifi ddr4 with lite load 11 undervolt

Ram: Gskill cl16 3200mhz ram 32gb (16x2) with xmp enabled gear 1.

Power: 850 watt psu 80 + gold

Gpu: Rtx 4070ti 1025v@2860(numbers I don't remember specifically but the undervolt is stable)

Storage a: windows installed on 1tb pcie 3.0 Sk Hynix (tlc) nvme slotted into m.2 drive module 2 (games like league and valorant are installed here with all the software for my pc)

Storage b: 2tb pcie 4.0 (dramless) solidigm p41 plus (qlc) nvme slotted into m.2 drive module 1 (pubg, and many of my most modern aaa games are installed here)

Storage c: 500gb pcie 3.0 samsung 970 EVO connected through an m.2 to pcie adapter on the bottom slot of the motherboard (some aaa games 2-4 years old installed here)

Storage d: Sata ssd 500 gb for general downloads

Storage e: 4tb hdd for photos and other sizable files

Storage f: 4tb hdd for some games that don't need ssds and nvmes, and destination of where my in game screen recordings go

Storage g: 4tb external hdd always plugged in for extra space. mostly unused

Now before getting judgemental I have a good reason why my pc is a frankenstein's monster. initially built in 2021, with storage upgrade in 2022 and 2024, gpu and psu upgrade in 2023 and cpu upgrade in 2024.

I am experiencing extreme stutters and hitches in games like Final Fantasy Rebirth (Installed in storage b) (also with 4fps 0.1% lows and 21fps 1% lows) and recently games like league (installed on storage a) has 0.5 second freezes making the game go from 240fps to 110 fps. I do not experience stutters in games like Death stranding 2 (installed in storage b) or Dead Space 2023 (storage c). Overwatch (on storage b) also has bad 1% lows from 250 fps to 70 fps with hitches

As far as my knowledge goes, I have put all the storage devices in the right place. which means even though its dramless, my 2tb 4.0 gen nvme would not be a stutter cause. (i have 500+gbs of storage left to make up for the dram) and all of my other storage devices except for storage f (4tb hdd 3.5 gb used out of 3.6) are in the blue with plenty of space left for each drive.

in this case, what would be the cause of the stutter? Is the usage of ddr4 instead of ddr5 the culprit? and if upgrading to ddr5 is not a financial option for me, would upgrading from ddr4 3200 mhz cl16 to 3600mhz cl16 help with the stutter?

Thank you for all the help!

Specs:

CPU: i7 14700k with corsair nautilus rs 240mm aio

Mainboard: MSI B660m mortar wifi ddr4 with lite load 11 undervolt

Ram: Gskill cl16 3200mhz ram 32gb (16x2) with xmp enabled gear 1.

Power: 850 watt psu 80 + gold

Gpu: Rtx 4070ti 1025v@2860(numbers I don't remember specifically but the undervolt is stable)

Storage a: windows installed on 1tb pcie 3.0 Sk Hynix (tlc) nvme slotted into m.2 drive module 2 (games like league and valorant are installed here with all the software for my pc)

Storage b: 2tb pcie 4.0 (dramless) solidigm p41 plus (qlc) nvme slotted into m.2 drive module 1 (pubg, and many of my most modern aaa games are installed here)

Storage c: 500gb pcie 3.0 samsung 970 EVO connected through an m.2 to pcie adapter on the bottom slot of the motherboard (some aaa games 2-4 years old installed here)

Storage d: Sata ssd 500 gb for general downloads

Storage e: 4tb hdd for photos and other sizable files

Storage f: 4tb hdd for some games that don't need ssds and nvmes, and destination of where my in game screen recordings go

Storage g: 4tb external hdd always plugged in for extra space. mostly unused

Now before getting judgemental I have a good reason why my pc is a frankenstein's monster. initially built in 2021, with storage upgrade in 2022 and 2024, gpu and psu upgrade in 2023 and cpu upgrade in 2024.

I am experiencing extreme stutters and hitches in games like Final Fantasy Rebirth (Installed in storage b) (also with 4fps 0.1% lows and 21fps 1% lows) and recently games like league (installed on storage a) has 0.5 second freezes making the game go from 240fps to 110 fps. I do not experience stutters in games like Death stranding 2 (installed in storage b) or Dead Space 2023 (storage c). Overwatch (on storage b) also has bad 1% lows from 250 fps to 70 fps with hitches

As far as my knowledge goes, I have put all the storage devices in the right place. which means even though its dramless, my 2tb 4.0 gen nvme would not be a stutter cause. (i have 500+gbs of storage left to make up for the dram) and all of my other storage devices except for storage f (4tb hdd 3.5 gb used out of 3.6) are in the blue with plenty of space left for each drive.

in this case, what would be the cause of the stutter? Is the usage of ddr4 instead of ddr5 the culprit? and if upgrading to ddr5 is not a financial option for me, would upgrading from ddr4 3200 mhz cl16 to 3600mhz cl16 help with the stutter?

Thank you for all the help!

For me the app2 was the perfect tws. I used it over the apm, project ace iem and project m iem. But I had to upgrade to the app3 because it broke down. There are three major differences:

1. The fit (also the switch from silicone to silicone foam hybrid)
2. The audio quality.
3. The other features such as anc and transparency.

To address 3 first, it’s a huge upgrade from the app2. I thought it couldn’t get better with anc from the 2s, but it is significantly better. Transparency mode is almost as if I don’t have anything filtering sound in between.

Second is the fit. I have personally never liked foam tips. They always got a good seal, but always felt uncomfortable and all foam tips changed the sound signature into boomier lows and flatter mids imo. The app3 goes through similar issues for me. The most similar wearing experience to the app2 I got was by using the azla crystal 2 silicone tip.

Last is the audio quality. I personally think it has improved, with audio feeling “fuller and wider” overall. However there is a serious issue with how the high mids and highs are presented. The mid highs feel much flatter and the highs are pretty much constantly and excruciatingly sibilant.

TLDR: from app2 to app3, everything is an improvement, except for the tip requiring aftermarket silicone and mid highs and highs in audio sounding bad or painful.

Pro 2 user for 3 years who has purchased the pro 3s because the transparency mode got busted in the pro 2s here. I am conflicted right now because I can't tell if there is a defect in my product, or I'm doing something wrong, or its just straight up bad. So I can feel that the transparency mode and anc mode is working perfectly when the right tip size (m for me) is inserted. I can definitely feel that its a step up from the pro 2s. However when it comes to sound quality, after comparing them between music and dialogue, I found the pro 3s to have; better/louder drums and bass, muddy and recessed mids and highs worse peak sibilance and constant sibilance or sibilant noise in dialogue and voice as if its going through some heavy compression filter.

When comparing the app3 to the app2 and apm, for me the app2 and apm sound very similar with the apms sounding more "full" do to the fact that its an over ear headphone. compared to these two the app3 feels like it lacks distiction between individual instruments.

I don't know what's wrong or what I am doing wrong here. does anyone have some insight on this? I am on the newest firmware by the way. personalized spatial audio sounded the same on or off and I don't use any accessibility settings because they make the mid highs to sharp for my ears.

One more important thing to note is that I've always disliked foam tips. My personal favorite are the spinfit w1 and final e tips. under the assumption that the pro 2 and pro 3 has the same sound quality how much do you think the difference in tip material play here?

How much difference for a 14700k would a 3200 cl16 and 3600 cl 16 have? I’ve got a used offer (unopened) 3600 32gb for 250 usd and I can sell my 3200 32gb for about 200usd is this worth it for 14700k?

Galax 4070 ti st here, stock was 1.1v@29xx(low 10s)mhz during peak clockspeeds, but hotspot heat was worsening from 81c at day 1 to 87-88c day 5 (average stayed same at 69c) so I decided to undervolt it to 1.025v@2850mhz (tested with pragmata and it crashed at 1.0v@2800mhz so stuck at 1.025). Temps went down to 66-67c avg and under 84c for hotspots. Game runs well without hitches or crashes and windows is also stable.
But when I tried to launch pubg it shows the logo and crashes on launch. This would sometimes go away after a few reboots but within the same boot cycle I logged how with an undervolt the game crashes on launch but it doesn’t on stock, but then in game the undervolt(when launched) stays perfectly fine.
Do I need to up my voltage? Lower my mhz? I don’t understand what’s going on here any insight would be appreciated thanks!