narrowed it down some more and setting 'maximum processor state' to 99 percent fixed it totally. somehting to do with disablling turbo boost which i know nothing about
well its an i9-9990k with a base speed of 3.6 GHz - when I set the maximum processor rate to 99 percent, it goes to about 3.43 GHZ, but if I turn it back to a 100 it goes to 4.68 GHZ immediately. so it must be intel turbo boost causing the problemthere are no settings in my my bios for this , so this fix will have to do,…