Much improved hardware specs not improving export time...?

I havent been able to get on the new PC for a while.  It hasnt felt quite as urgent since we replaced that plugin that increased the encoding time by hours.

But there has been a strange development.  My wife was recently encoding a video and using the computer while it was encoding.  I think she was transferring files to an external hard drive while using the internet. The computer froze up on her while encoding and a hard reset was performed.  She had to start the encoding over again because it hadnt finished, and when she did she told me the CPU was being fully utilized now.

I checked and every core was being fully used.  In a previous post I had checked and half of them werent.  7 were barely being used at all and a few more just werent being used fully.

We got our hopes up, but further testing showed that the encoding time wasnt actually increased.

So I dont know what thats all about... I thought it was strange though.

Well we made some form of progress yesterday.  Turns out one of the major culprits was a plugin my wife uses when she edits videos.

We knew it was the reason hours were being added to encoding time, because one of the various things we did while trying to figure out why encoding time didnt change with the new machine was to take a project and see how long it took to encode without using that plugin - on both the old and new computer.  The time went down by hours, but still took the same amount of time to encode on either machine.

She ended up finding a new plugin, and it cut the time down to basically how long it took to encode without the old plug in there at all.  The GPU basically handles it like its not even there, I guess.  So, thats good, times were cut down by hours, but at the same time its clearly taking "way" longer than it should be taking to encode videos as it takes just as long as the old machine. 

DavidROfficer6198​'s advice is that its Windows 10 not fully utilizing the CPU, and using Windows 7 may help that.  I still have to try that because I need to put a DVD drive in the new computer.  I didnt bother buying one with it because we never seem to use them.  I dont doubt that suggestion, but Ive had people telling me that theyre using Windows 10 and are getting better times than me, so I dont know what to make of that.  Plus my wife isnt too keen on moving back to Windows 7, but is willing to if that actually makes enough of a difference.

Other than the Windows 10/Windows 7 theory, I have yet to figure out why this particular PC isnt encoding any better than the old PC.

So, I have to ask... and I know Im reaching here, because its kind of the point that Ive gotten to, is there any chance that maybe my CPU is "malfunctioning" in some way without any signs?

The PC runs fine and I havent encountered any errors at all that would lead me to believe something might be wrong, but I thought it might be worth asking if its possible.  I considered exchanging the CPU just for the hell of it to see what would happen.  But, like I said, I know its kind of just reaching.

Saw on another thread. Try creating or modifying a file called "cuda_supported_cards" and putting it in the  Premiere Pro directory?

Your problem kept me from sleeping so here I am at midnight.

I will describe your situation with one of our dear departed Harm's similes.  Your old system was like a Volkswagen Beetle, your new system you dropped in an i9-7900X Ferrari Racing engine into your new one and supercharged it with a GTX 1080 Ti, then you ued an aerodynamic body with 32 GB of RAM.but the bottleneck problem is you used the same type single SATA III SSD for the transmission and differential.

I consider it a sin that you do not have a new super speed M.2 PCIe x4 SSD like a Samsung 960 as a SECOND SSD device for all your Adobe project files and media when your motherboard is perfectly set up to use one.  There also are tuning steps that you have to perform to get the maximum horsepower out of that wonderful new computer.

Go ahead and run PPBM and Submit me the whole snapshot file (not a screen grab) as I can help more with the data in that file.  A ASUS feature is AURA, turn it off! as a starting point.

Download and run my Premiere Pro BenchMark (PPBM) and Submit the results.  PPBM has three timelines but four tests which stress your CPU, GPU and Storage hardware using Premiere Pro.  With that data we can tell a lot about your setup and correct anything that may be causing problems.  I will be delighted to see my first test results from an i9-7900X