Hey, I'm wondering whether this is normal behavior or not, but one core is idling at 100%.
My build is brand new and I tried updating drivers/bios/restoring windows/reseating GPU/safe mode/sfcscan/healthcheck/disk check.
The CPU usage lingers around 8-15% whilst idling as well. When I turn off Turbo Mode in my ASUS UEFI, it goes down slightly to 6-8%, but my clocking rate also goes down to 2,9GHz.
Yes, I have tried every possible BIOS settings on/off, including turning off devices.
The only thing that actually causes a difference is when I enter advanced power settings in Windows and turn down the Maximum Processor State anything between to 5-99%.
When I lower this, CPU usage goes down a lot generally, and 1-2 cores no longer keep peaking.
Usage in normal mode:
View: https://i.imgur.com/jfJUkBa.png
Usage in safe mode:
View: https://i.imgur.com/atM1fuE.png
Usage after reducing state:
View: https://i.imgur.com/JSShs6N.png
Maybe the energy option thing is utterly stupid and only proves that "reducing cpu speed reduces the speed of the cpu" lol... But I'm pretty new at all this, so you'll have to excuse me.
Anybody has similar experiences? And ideas on how to diagnose this further?
I will also add that my temps are fine and CPU heavy processes seem to function smoothly. My fans are quite lively though, they speed very dynamically when I do small tasks such as browsing.
Oh and upon analyzing the processes, the main load is from "System" and "System Interrupts". Within "System", the load (and quite a lot of latency I think) origin from ACPI.sys. My gut feeling is that it all somehow has got something to do with power.
Would be very grateful for any ideas and help!
My build is brand new and I tried updating drivers/bios/restoring windows/reseating GPU/safe mode/sfcscan/healthcheck/disk check.
The CPU usage lingers around 8-15% whilst idling as well. When I turn off Turbo Mode in my ASUS UEFI, it goes down slightly to 6-8%, but my clocking rate also goes down to 2,9GHz.
Yes, I have tried every possible BIOS settings on/off, including turning off devices.
The only thing that actually causes a difference is when I enter advanced power settings in Windows and turn down the Maximum Processor State anything between to 5-99%.
When I lower this, CPU usage goes down a lot generally, and 1-2 cores no longer keep peaking.
Usage in normal mode:
View: https://i.imgur.com/jfJUkBa.png
Usage in safe mode:
View: https://i.imgur.com/atM1fuE.png
Usage after reducing state:
View: https://i.imgur.com/JSShs6N.png
Maybe the energy option thing is utterly stupid and only proves that "reducing cpu speed reduces the speed of the cpu" lol... But I'm pretty new at all this, so you'll have to excuse me.
Anybody has similar experiences? And ideas on how to diagnose this further?
I will also add that my temps are fine and CPU heavy processes seem to function smoothly. My fans are quite lively though, they speed very dynamically when I do small tasks such as browsing.
Oh and upon analyzing the processes, the main load is from "System" and "System Interrupts". Within "System", the load (and quite a lot of latency I think) origin from ACPI.sys. My gut feeling is that it all somehow has got something to do with power.
Would be very grateful for any ideas and help!
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