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Question

Massive Frame Drop + Partial Sound Loss

Oct 23, 2018 10:06PM PDT

THIS IS MY SYSTEM
Intel Core i7 8700 3.2GHz Coffee Lake 12MB
Motherboard ASRock B360 Pro4 LGA1151
GeIL 16GB Kit (2x8GB) DDR4 SUPER LUCE RGB LITE C16 2400MHz
Samsung 860 EVO Series 2.5" 7mm 250GB SSD
Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM010 3.5" 1TB 64MB HDD
Gigabyte GeForce GTX1080Ti
NZXT H500 Matte Black Mid Tower Case w/ Side Panel Window
Power Supply eVGA GD Series 650W 80PLUS
Lighting Deepcool RGB LED Magnetic Strip w/
Wireless ASUS PCE-N15 300Mbps
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-Bit DVD

ISSUE ;
So I stream and play games at the same time. I run my game at 200FPS and stream in 60fps 720p, Monitored all my usages and when I have a video playing, stream and have the game running at 200+ FPS my RAM/CPU/GPU all sit about 45-55% usage temperature stable.

Then all of a sudden the sound goes a bit iffy very quickly, the FPS drops to 0/1 and i get a complete freeze. It will then fix itself within 2-3 seconds and go back to normal. The only difference after FPS drop is SOME portions of sound is not there. For example if there was water sound and music, maybe only the water sound would go, but the music (in-game) would still work. Sound would eventually go back to normal. 

Computer is freshly built 3 months old.

Side note; There was a notification popping up "something to do with audio jack" and had the same intermittent crash and FPS drop so i disabled windows 10 notifications, however still occurs.

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Fps
Oct 24, 2018 7:32AM PDT
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And exactly why
Oct 24, 2018 10:59AM PDT

I bought a Fire stick to plug into a monitor with speakers. This way I wasn't pushing my luck on my game machine.