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I cleaned the old thermal paste off the CPU, installed a new CPU heat sink (ETS N30) with new thermal paste. My CPU package temperature is down to 34 C average with 39 C max. My cores 0-3 dropped from 64-66 C to 25-33 C. Thank you for the help! :))

I used HWiNFO64 to check temperature for the CPU. It looks like CPU package is at 72 C average with minimum 69 and maximum 92 C just using Chrome. Wow, I think that's the problem. Looks like the thermal paste needs to be cleaned and reapplied. I’m going to try that and see if that helps. It...

I think I narrowed down the problem. I tried playing a low-demand game called Gemcraft - Chasing Shadows. It looks like my CPU usage on the Windows Task Manager is jumping up to ~90%. I knew my i5 3470 would be my bottleneck, but why would I have such a severe drop in performance for everything...

Setup: Windows 7 ultimate x64 Intel Core i5 3470 @3.20 GHz MSI Z77A-G41 (MS-7758) BIOS American Megatrends Inc. V2.4 DDR3 16 GBytes (4x4) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 120 GB SSD for OS 3 TB HDD for storage 750 GB hdd for music + some games 500 GB external for backups Powered by Thermaltake TR2 600W...