high cpu load

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  1. alexalexa221

    Question High CPU with System Idle Process

    There is a chance this is just an error made by Task Manager but I am not sure so I decided to ask you guys for an opinion. As the title suggest, 'System Idle Process' (SIP) is using a lot of my CPU. Now, from what I understood this is completely normal as it is just a way of showing how much of...
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    Question Higher End PC struggles with Multitasking and can't play a number of games

    Hey all! I recently made a few upgrades to my old PC due to some RAM issues, and now despite the amount of money I've put into it, is running worse than it did before. My computer struggles with basic multitasking, often having to close my browser while gaming as it ends up lagging out the game...
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    [SOLVED] High CPU temp

    Hello, It has been 6 or 7months since my first PC build. Everything was going fine and life was great, until recently my FPS suddenly started to drop whenever I play Warzone. Usually, FPS would be around 100-120, but recently it has been dropping as low as 50, and averaging about 70-80. I...
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    [SOLVED] Getting 100% spikes on one core, making games stutter (i9-9900KF CPU)

    Hello Starting a week or two ago (Atleast thats when I noticed it), I have begun to get huge stutters / lag spikes in my FPS games. What I have seen / figured out so far is that out of the 16 core on my CPU, one (nr 15) looks like the only one thats really being used and spikes on 100% alot and...
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    [SOLVED] Microsoft windows search indexer high cpu usage

    Hi, so whenever i open the pc, the CPU produced high noise, a quick solution is to open the task manager where the Microsoft windows search indexer is taking 80-90% of CPU but then after couple of seconds it disappaers. tried many online solutions (...
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    [SOLVED] Relatively high CPU and power usage by System at idle

    Hello everyone, My PC is equipped with 10400f with Windows 10 Pro (21H1 and OS Build: 19043.1081) and recently I noticed that when at idle I have a relatively high CPU and power usage by System. Checked for Windows updates but everything is up-to-date. Also scanned for hardware changes in the...
  7. prsnr

    [SOLVED] High CPU and frozen picture when I ALT+TAB to a Chrome tab playing YouTube video ?

    So I was watching a YouTube video and I opened services.msc to check something. When I alt+tab back to the video, the picture was frozen for a bit while audio was still playing fine. I opened Task Manager and recorded a video with my phone, because I didn't want to slow down my laptop with a...
  8. Tech Gaming wale

    [SOLVED] File explorer causing sudden high cpu usage for a few seconds

    I have a i7 3770 with GTX 1050ti and 16 gb ram..used to work fine with me. But few days ago, I started facing a problem. My pc would freeze for a few seconds due to extreme cpu usage. After monitoring, I found that file explorer takes up the cpu to peak for the a few seconds causing it to...
  9. kudner

    Question Bad idle CPU and memory usage

    SPECS: GTX 1060 6gb, i5 6600k and 16gb of ram (3000mhz), ASRock z170 pro4 Recently I have been getting terrible performance on games I used to be able to run flawlessly. I cant even use my VR headset (like I used to) because of my PC's terrible framerate etc. So I checked my task manager and...
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    Question Cpu load and high temperature

    Hi, I have Intel i7-4790k (I know it's old I'm upgrading soon) when I download a game it go 90% load and yesterday the temperature reached 91°(186F) just for downloading a game and everything is closed , but when I play game like Ac Odyssey all good 73° (163F), I run full norton 360 virus scan...
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    Question high cpu usage until i open task manager

    new build and as title states, cpu utilized approximately 40-50% at idle and once i open task manager i can see the utilization high but before i can see or task manager figures out whats going on and cpu usage quickly drops to 5-9% and i cant see what was causing it as it changes so quickly and...
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    Question HDR causing explorer.exe to have high CPU usage

    So I recently bought a 2k, 144hz, HDR monitor to have as my main monitor, and it seems that whenever i have HDR enabled, after a period of time, maybe 5 minutes, explorer.exe goes from usual CPU usage around 1% to having 20% give or take some. After disabling HDR after around 5 minutes...
  13. Hello man

    [SOLVED] High System Interrupts on New System

    I know EVERYONE asks "wait, what is this process, how come I'm idling with high CPU usage?!" but I have exhausted all internet solutions I can find here, and I work in IT. My server at home is an old Lenovo E32 with an i5 4590S, 12GB of DDR3 1600, an EVGA 500W G3 PSU, a GTX 1060 and a decent...
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    [WTS] I5-2500k, G.skill ddr3 8gb ram, hyper 212 evo

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    Corsair Link Not Detecting H100i, Windows 8.1.

    Hi. I've upgraded my PC to Windows 8.1 Pro and Corsair Link is not detecting the fans and the water blocks LED colour can't be changed. I've tried plugging the USB 2.0 cable into a different Motherboard header, its not solved the problem. I'm aware the H100i software has problems with Windows...