After i installed an RTX 3080 a new problem appeared - sound disappears randomly for several seconds at a time, system-wide. it looks like the entire sound processing gets stuck somehow, then when it resumes, whatever wasn't played back is simply skipped. like someone hit mute for that time.
I only noticed that problem when using my ASUS Xonar AE sound card, and installing multiple different rtx card in the PC shop showed the same problem with them all. my gtx1070 that i had previously, had...

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