Regarding AI protection, I had mine off when I started having this bug (it was always off from day one), then I read to turn it on because it could help the issue (this was 2days ago), regardless, I still had the issue, even after clearing "chknvram2...

Just beat me, was about to post that I have been running the beta for 2days and everything has been great, I hope we will get an official update pushed soon.

I have no HDD plugged into my router, aside from that, my CPU usage should be hovering around 5~10% and RAM around 50~60%, this is with a total of 20+ connections throughout the house. Looking at your % usage, it looks about right.

I have installed the beta version that was shared here, hopefully, it will fix this issue temp until ASUS release an update with the fix

Thanks for pointing out the beta link!