Hi guys, after getting a new GTX 1080 TI FTW3 and i7-7700K, I've been experiencing stuttering in games like Witcher 3, PUBG, Battlefield 4, and Crysis 3. With my current cooling solution, GPU temps never go above 55 C, and CPU averages around 65 C with a max of 77 C.
 
Things I have tried:
Removing CPU and GPU OC back to stock
Defragging HDD and SSD
Rolled back GPU drivers
Updated lots of drivers with Driver Booster 5
Removed my antivirus for a short while
Fresh reinstall of my OS (Windows 10)
Doing clean boots now - disabling all startup programs
Disabling G-Sync
Disabled High Precision Event Timer
Disabled a BIOS PCH option called IOAPIC 24-119
Moved a few games from HDD to SSD and it didn’t help with said games that were moved.
 
Attached are monitoring of game play via MSI Afterburner:

When I had this happen in BF1, disabling V-sync took care of the stuttering. Give it a try and see if that works for you. 

rlb9682
When I had this happen in BF1, disabling V-sync took care of the stuttering. Give it a try and see if that works for you. 

I did not have V-Sync enabled for any of the above mentioned games. I did have G-Sync on, but like I said, disabling it didn’t help.

See if the stutters get reduced when running the game off your other storage device.

Sajin
See if the stutters get reduced when running the game of your other storage device.

Ah, I forgot to mention that - PUBG and Witcher 3 were originally on the HDD and I moved it to SSD and it didn’t help.

Have you tried playing your games with all monitoring programs disabled?

Sajin
Have you tried playing your games with all monitoring programs disabled?

Hm, I’ll try that.
But personally I like to keep an OSD up to see if anything is going awry.

Sajin
Have you tried playing your games with all monitoring programs disabled?

So I've tried running it without monitoring software, but since I use MSI Afterburner to do my overclocks, once I close it the overclock is no longer applied and my GPU runs at stock speed.
 
Or can I just uncheck all the parameters that I have MSI monitoring instead of closing MSI completely?
 
Or what if I close/uninstall Rivatuner?

An applied overclock will continue to run after exiting afterburner.

Sajin
An applied overclock will continue to run after exiting afterburner.

How do you close MSI without removing the overclock then? I ran 3DMark just to make sure the OC didn’t get removed and it reported stock speeds.