FPS Drop Issues (HDD Issues?)

Lately, when I've been playing games, I've noticed extreme framerate drops every couple of seconds from my usual 150 FPS to 0-20 FPS. No high CPU, RAM, or Disk usage, but I noticed this in my task manager.
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Not likely to be HDD - scale is to 100KB - HDD capability would scale to 100MB.

What did you add to software just before problem started?

Which games have problem? Is that all games?

Get a utility which records history on temps and voltages and let that run in background while you play some 'problem' games... what are the ranges for these?

I would suspect the GPU first - last cleaned? replaced thermal paste?

CPU?...check and clean heatsink and all system fans... good videos on this on YouTube
 
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