Not sure if it's your issue, but I have found certain software to not play nice with this setup - main culprits for lock-ups:
Bitdefender
Drivermax
Asus AI Suite
Known to cause DPC Latency spikes for me:
Nvidia drivers
Photoshop CC
On the latency side, this can be very much down to ram timings and procodt I have found - can test stable for hours and not be 'smooth'. lowering timings can actually help, and trying different procodt values.
Also, is this after your system has been running for a while? I still find that every now and then I can have it suddenly start feeling a bit laggy - but generally passes.
Thanks that's helpful. It has happened a couple of times and yes for no apparent reason. The other day it happened after 3 hours of planet coaster followed by 30 mins of sniper elite. It happened precisely when I turned vsync on incidentally but I've seen it a couple of other times too.
A bit more detail then -
Running 3333 at 14-14-14-34. Two hours memtest stable. 1.38v SOC at 1.125v.
Also running 3.9ghz at 1.425v, which droops all the way down to 1.35 ish under load. LLC2 didn't seem to help this at all. 1 hour real bench and 2 hours prime stable. 65c or so under said load but rarely gets over 50 in games.
However. The beta BIOS (with 1.0.0.6) doesnt like vcore over 1.25 or multiplier over x36. Going over on either causes x15.5 to be set. I get around this with 1.25v and x36 in BIOS, then have easytune ramp up the overclock and volts on bootup. Easytune feels a bit crap so wonder whether it doesn't help.
Finally I don't seem to have great airflow through the case as I am using an intake rad which doesn't need any fan speed at all to keep the CPU cool. Under load in the heatwave last week all temps were sensible apart from the VRMs for the CPU which were in the 90s under prime95. Again though nothing like that when gaming.
I am going to drop my GPU overclock completely for a while just in case. I tend to run CPUZ and/or afterburner in background on my second screen so will stop doing that too.
As well as the intermittent sluggish behaviour I also get bootloops both at 3333 and 3200. It reboots 3 times with code F6 then starts up. When it starts up all settings are fine, timings remain and there are no other issues. If I get into windows without a bootloop it will crash when easytune applies the OC. It will then bootloop, restart and be fine. I am pretty confident elements of this are due to the BIOS being in beta as once I can apply x39 I will ditch easytune...