Is occasional stuttering typical for PCs in most games?
Is occasional stuttering typical for PCs in most games?
Stuttering is typically a brief cpu overload.
Improving single-thread speed is often the solution.
Your i7-7700 scores around 2490 in single-thread passmark ratings. That's decent.
On your motherboard, an i7-7700K would score about 2769.
A current i7-10700K reaches 3035.
The highest I've recorded is 3693 for the upcoming 5950X.
Similar results are expected from upcoming Rocket Lake chips.
Another potential reason for stuttering is the storage device. If a game requires access to a drive or needs to save a checkpoint, an SSD can handle it roughly 40 times faster.