That was an excellent call - i actually read that thread also after I posted this and so I uninstalled the geforce experience entirely. Things I thought were looking good, but unfortunately no. It starts at a solid 60 and then dips down. Once it dips down, it does seems to stay down. I also disabled the less CPU in background, but unfortunately same issue.
Maybe its not even my GPU that the issue, since everything rises (draw, game, gpu, frame), and its the CPU. I have my power settings to best performance (since the 1709 WIn10 update, there is a slider now in place of the power profiles).
I think my next try will be to let Windows install the GPU driver and remove the nVidia manually installed driver.
Yet, I can play games, run 3dmax - as far as I know, everything else runs just fine…its so bizarre