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Or (after looking a bit more) are these worth $50 more than the i5 4570 which is currently 140 at microcenter

Both processors are currently $190 at microcenter. Which one is recommended?

Another update I installed Process Explorer and there is a process called Interrupts under the system heading that bounces between 1% and 15% CPU usage. Not entirely sure how related it is but after starting a download for 3dmark11 to try and use it see how the system reacted the interrupts...

Small update (was busy with finals and such for school) I re assembled everything including the heatsink and now the cpu temp is a much more reasonable 39. However the cpu still has issues. Upon testing the new gtx 660 in another system it did not create the massive cpu problems. Running out of...

The highest process is svchost.exe (netsvcs) at a consistent 15-20% of cpu usage, other than that it fluctuates with whatever is putting on the load. One strange process that I found in the resource monitor is system interrupts which is bouncing between 0 and 10%. As for the temp currently the...

As the title says my CPU runs at 100% capacity under minimal load creating an extremely slow system. This started after doing a completely fresh install using dban to wipe the hard drive prior to the new windows installation. The reason for the fresh install was swapping from a HD 6850 to a gtx...

As the title says I have a problem with my XFX HD 6850. Whenever I try to play anything, in rare cases even with youtube videos, the screen will flicker and split. I made a recreation of what will happen to the picture during this. Any ideas as to the cause or recommendations on what I can do...