New Build Keeps Stuttering

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I just finished building my first computer, it has the components found at the pcpartpicker link at the bottom.

A few times a day, the computer will freeze up for about 7 seconds and then unfreeze like nothing happened. At first I thought it was the display driver but when I sent my 1080Ti back (because I decided to go with an RTX 2080 instead), during the time I was using the onboard graphics I still had the same stuttering. I suspected it may be the bios so I upgraded to the latest bios version, 1.60 (from 1.51), but still experienced the same stuttering.

I am not doing any CPU intensive tasks. My 2080 is not here yet so I'm still using onboard graphics. I also purchased another 16gb of the same RAM, that will be arriving tomorrow.

I'm not sure what to do next. Every time it freezes, I check Event Viewer and see no indications of any problems. I don't know if there is monitoring software that I could install to help diagnose this but I'm sure the software would freeze too during the stutter. Any help would be appreciated.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/LCTBWD
 
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My temps are pretty cool across the board. Funny enough, as I was opening HWMonitor, my computer stuttered while the GUI was loading. Checking task manager, it shows that my CPU spiked to 100 for that moment in time.
 
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Theoretically, if I had my computer plugged into a surge protector that also had several other devices connected to it, could a stutter be caused by the surge protector not always being able to provide enough power to the power supply?
Background: In the past, I had plugged in six external hard drives into a high joule-rated surge protector and was trying to diagnose why sometimes some drives would appear in windows and othertimes they wouldn't but new drives would appear. I ended up coming to the conclusion that the surge protector couldn't handle all the drives at once. Plugging some into one surge protector and the rest into another one fixed the problem. Right now I'm experimenting to see if that is the problem. I'm waiting to see if the computer stutters.
 

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