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No, that's what confused me. I readjusted the core and memory clock for the GPU and it seems a little better. I'm gonna try some games out and see if it still persists,

Hit a clean Installation of Windows with only the drivers Installed and the bare necessities to benchmark It - both physically, and online. Do not Install anything else. See how It performs thereafter.

If you're still experiencing the same Issue(s), It's very likely to be a hardware Issue.