Issue - Bad performance / Random BSOD / Screen flickering

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ZpQ

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Hey guys,
It has been happening for several months now, I can't seem to find the issue even though I have a pretty good idea where it comes from (Ram or PSU imo)

Here are the issues i'm facing :
- While playing LoL, black screen flickers (very fast ones) happening every 3-5 minutes
- While playing CS:GO, sudden drops in FPS (I can feel it) every now and then
- Overall poor performance on a strong machine
- Random BSOD while booting (Memory Management)

What I tried :
- Testing each ram stick in each slot, all passed and booted successfully
- Memtest 8 cycles with all sticks, passed without errors - Uninstalling Corsair ICUE (thought it was interfering)

I had a BSOD cycle boot once, related to "faceit.sys", the anti-cheat I use playing Faceit, it erased some of the DMP files I gathered so it does not help. My temps are fine even tho I have pretty high spikes for less than a second (96-98 degrees Celsius), the average is 70 while playing.

I'm pretty sure its RAM related to be honest. One more thing : I use my mobile device as a hubspot to get the wifi, as can't use wires and I don't have a wifi card in my motherboard

PC specs :
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60GHz 3.60 GHz (default OC, didn't tweak anything)
- Corsair DDR4 3200mhz, XMP activated
- Gigabyte RTX 3080- MSI Z390 Tomahawk
- M2 SSD / Another SSD / 1 HDD
- Corsair RM650x PSU- 2 monitors, 1 HMDI 1 DP

Here is a link to download the minidump : https://files.catbox.moe/l63y8u.zip

In advance, thank you very much for helping me, i'm kinda desperate right now.
 
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Your PSU pulls up for me as a 650w Gold rated unit, is this correct?

Some things we can try right off the hop: (these are just good housekeeping, if they don't solve your problem, they're good to do anyway)

Run Disk Cleanup (check all the boxes) this will delete things such as your recycling bin, so make sure you don't have any files you want to keep.

Run Defragment and Optimize Drives, run this on your drives.

Turn off XMP

Settings > System > Power and sleep > Additional power settings
Make sure your power plan is set to balanced, anything else could tamper with the wrong settings and cause issues.

Right click on the Windows logo in the bottom left and select Windows Powershell (Admin)
Run these two commands:

sfc /scannow

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

These will take a while to run, do not close out of Powershell while they are running, if one fails then move onto the next and then loop back around.

Finally, a system restart from the power menu, then re-test.

Note: Make sure you have a system backup before you make all these changes, save any important files of folders. While these changes shouldn't cause any issues, better to be safe than sorry.
 
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