I'd go a step further than the person you quoted and say next gen #2 card is often faster than previous gen flagship with the exception of 50 series. My 4070Ti Super is right there with a 3090Ti while pulling roughly half the power. A 3080 is...
Lurker here. Saw the Soyo board posted and man. I look at mine everytime I use my half-bathroom.
AMD Athlon XP 2700+ in socket. The caps leaked out years ago.
UE 5.5.4 build from March 2025. Improved performance. STALKER 2 is using an early build. Apparently 5.8 brings larger performance increases and may finally help with shader stuttering, but that came out in June so I assume STALKER 2 will continue...
Set CPPC Preferred Cores in BIOS to "driver"
Make sure you have "balanced" power profile set in windows
Make sure XBOX game bar is running (win+G)
EDIT: Sorry, didn't realize you posted this issue nearly a month ago.