100% Cpu and Disk

Hitori x Sakura

Commendable
Oct 1, 2016
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My desktop keeps going to 100% on the cpu and disk, so far ive done everything to fix it and nothing works, i've disabled superfetch, ran malwarebytes hundreds of times and avg, switched out the cpu and hdd, turned off window notifications, and nothing seems to work.

System
Processor: AMD FX - 4300 Quad-Core
Os: Windows 10
Ram: 8gb
HDD: Western Digital 2tb
Graphics Card: EVGA GTX 970 FTW+
 
Solution


Games make your CPU and disk usage go to 100%, but general desktop use is fine? That really sounds about normal for a slow FX CPU with an older mechanical hard drive. I would expect most games to peg it at 100%.

Also, it's normal for your memory to be more than half full sitting idle at the desktop. Windows preloads things into memory so they open quickly, but if you need that RAM, it's instantly cleared and usable.
I wonder if you're running out of useable RAM or have faulty RAM, forcing the computer to rely 100% on the Windows pagefile on your HDD. What does resource monitor say is hardware reserved and standby and free? Is this a single 8gb stick or 2x4gb sticks or 4x2gb sticks? Is this 32bit windows or 64bit windows? How old is your hard drive?
 


I run google chrome a lot and cpu and disk stays near 5% or lower but when i try to play games or open photoshop or even malawarebyte they both spike up but when idle on chrome my memory keeps going to 60%
 


it's a 2 4gb ram cards
 


Games make your CPU and disk usage go to 100%, but general desktop use is fine? That really sounds about normal for a slow FX CPU with an older mechanical hard drive. I would expect most games to peg it at 100%.

Also, it's normal for your memory to be more than half full sitting idle at the desktop. Windows preloads things into memory so they open quickly, but if you need that RAM, it's instantly cleared and usable.
 
Solution


but even when idle it still spikes to 100 and everything start lagging making everything run really slow cant even open up youtube videos and having to keep restarting the desktop