Technically speaking a bottleneck cpu or gpu wise would not give stutters íf you have the right drivers installed. Check out your motherboard model and search the support page then download and install the latest drivers. Chipset drivers and ME(intel) drivers. Maybe the latest BIOS update and The latest ME firmware could help too Indeed a clean DDU of your videcard could help and install the latest videocard drivers.

Let’s say you use Windows, that means Windows will butt force you to upgrade it every month or so, so Windows will have had a lot of changes and the old drivers could maybe not keep up.

1000x better than participating and finishing 2nd or 3rd and still have to show up with the other 2 kids.

32GB is more than enough memory for now and some years, better to go with faster than more i would say. You could always put in more sticks later.

Those dangerous disruptive words while seated, could really hurt someone indeed, guns should be used i might say.