Thanks guys... I'll keep digging, been working with iRacing as well and now their developers are thinking it seems to be GPU related issue based on some error logs I sent over. I opened everything up and checked connections and reseated the GPU and switched RAM slots just to see. Ran a race last night with zero issues and looked beautiful with no stutters or anything and held the FPS I have it set at the whole race... I'm really hoping it was something silly like a loose connection or bad RAM slot but we'll see!
Internet was the first place to start and it's definitely not that, been there done that as they say. Hard wired, full gig speed, many a stress / continuous internet tests and she runs as long as she needs with 0% packet loss which is nice. The internet is the one thing I went quite overkill on for living by myself in a studio apartment hehe.
Looking forward to Bathurst!