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I have came to the conclusion that my storage devices are bottlenecking my GPU. I experience lag and frame rate drops that are brought on my low GPU usage. This did not happen in tell I made a second steam library that has a duplicates of games which also on my SSD. I was getting 98-99% GPU usage before I made a second Steam folder on my hard drive. I have these issues in games like Battlefield 3, DOOM, Resident Evil 7 etc.
Here is post on the steam forums that I made a little over month ago.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/379720/discussions/0/1470841629663634004/
Also I am planning on moving all my games from hard drive and my SSD to a M.2. Internal SSD. I'm wondering if this will eliminate my bottleneck.
 
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Depending on how much bloatware you have installed, how much stuff you leave open in the background and how large the game's working data set is, 16GB might not be enough to keep all of the game's frequently used assets in cache. If that's what is happening, an SSD will make those accesses quicker but you will likely still notice stutter when they happen.

On my PC, I have 11-13GB in use by the time I am done opening all of the stuff I usually have open all of the time.
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So, it shouldn't bottleneck. Everything "important" should get cached, and not be a HDD issue. Except when it's saving or something, it shouldn't lag.

Maybe moving all to M.2 will help, but I doubt it.

Your GPU use never reaches high levels anymore? Can you record the GPU use and post the results while you play 2-3 minutes of intense ultra setting game?
 
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Depending on how much bloatware you have installed, how much stuff you leave open in the background and how large the game's working data set is, 16GB might not be enough to keep all of the game's frequently used assets in cache. If that's what is happening, an SSD will make those accesses quicker but you will likely still notice stutter when they happen.

On my PC, I have 11-13GB in use by the time I am done opening all of the stuff I usually have open all of the time.
 
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Games such as Battlefield 3 and Half Life will run a 99% to 100% GPU usage at 4k. But at 1080p which the resolution of my monitor Battlefield 3 gpu usage will jump to 80% then drop down to %20 for seemly no reason. I have 3 copies of Battlefield 3 that appear to be installed according to Geforce Experience, even though I uninstalled completely and reinstalled it. I doubt there is a problem with my motherboard because my PC used to run like grease lighting, now it seems like all these duplicate copies of games are causing performance problems. I don't care what anyone says a storage device can bottleneck a system under some circumstances. Also I have diagnosed every component in my system.

 
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