Hi all.

I purchased an Alienware 17R4 last month and have been having a blast with it.  However, I have noticed that I have been getting stuttering issues while playing games.  To be honest, there are slightly older games (Assassin's Creed 3 & 4, Watch Dogs, Dishonored 2) and I feel my laptop should handle them without breaking a sweat.  Temps seem fine while gaming, never goes above low 80s for CPU and GPU is in the 70s.  I have the following specs:

i7-7700hq

GTX 1070

16GB 2400 RAM

Tosh 512GB NVMe SSD

MDSSD BPX 480 GB NVMe SSD

1TB HDD (for storage only)

According to GPU-Z, I noticed that the bus interface is listed as PCIe x16 3.0 & x8 3.0 (sometimes will show x8 2.0 & 1.1).  Would this have anything to do with stuttering issues?