This is one of those times I loath Intel's "new" (several years old now) naming scheme. I've a 6 core i7 extreme...but it was one of the first or second gens, so it's hard to qualify it against current gen. I've also 64GB RAM, and seldom get near 50% usage w/o VMs running. IO seems reasonable, and yet streaming video stutters a lot, with say Civ6 on the primary monitor and streaming live TV on a secondary. I didn't use to have a problem with Civ5 & streaming live TV (i.e. TV stream was clean and Civ5 performed as crappy as Civ5 does), and when I look at task manager, the CPU is not fully tasked, so I presume it may be a GPU issue (anyone know of a taskmon like app for GPUs?).

Since I'm on the fast insider ring, I've tried both with and without game mode turned on (which supposedly now works), and both cause the TV stream to stutter. I don't even recall having this issue before they even announce game mode, but I can't be sure when I first had the problem, because I was also having physical internet issues in same time frame (thanks, Comcast).