Frame Drops on games after changing SSD

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TLDR: 980 pro 2tb ssd crapped out and after replacing with 990 pro 1tb ssd, games are lag spiking/frame dropping.

I recently had an issue with the notorious samsung 980 pro 2tb ssd on my computer where it crapped out one evening and got stuck in read only mode. This caused my computer to restart and get stuck in the "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key." Luckily samsung offered to replace it but to keep my computer running I went and bought a new 990 Pro SSD with heat sink for my computer. After installing new SSD, I updated my aorus 570s bios to latest version , F8C, and installed new windows onto the 990 so it would be my boot SSD.

I downloaded some old and new apps for hardware management like Samsung magician, ryzen master, seagate, NZXT. I also redownloaded some of my old games/programs like wallpaper engine, overwatch, monster hunter rise, and tiny rogues. However, since the 980 crashed and I did this entire reinstallation, my games are now experiencing intense frame drops and lag spikes. Before, my 3090 could play these games on high settings without temp spikes or even frame drops but now on high settings my cpu spikes up to \~80 when it used to sit at 70. My cooling systems are working and maxed out too like before. My computer boots up fine, I can watch videos or surf the web easily, and do other small tacks but its mostly when I am gaming that the frame drops occur.

Systems Specs:

Fixes I have tried that have not worked:

I dont know what else to try or do. Any help would be appreciated. I made this computer back in 2021 so its been a few years but I dont want to give up on this just yet.