CPU fluctuates badly even when no app is open

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Hello! I have this Dell laptop,Inspiron 17 5759 for nearly 3 years now but its been bearly used...

Starting few days ago,the CPU is going crazy,fluctuating alot with no aparent reason(meaning nothing is open than task manager and it goes from 1% to 48% then goes back to 5% and up again on 60% and so on in a maner of seconds). When i open anything,like a chrome page,ie or a game or i try to access other programs in pc,the CPU goes to 100% and then everything becomes extremly slow or freezes!

I got the Core Temp and the temp on both cores is 33-43C wich i think is normal so the CPU is not overheating.Even if the CPU stays at 100% the laptop is quiet and doesnt get hot. I have updated all drivers and also the OS..

I also got the CrystalDisk to check the HDD wich also seems to run good with a 30C temp (also there i saw the hard been used 432hrs)

I have reinstalled the OS ,using 7 Ultimate x64 ...did that several times,using different versions as i thought the issue is with the OS but as soon as i enter windows,with nothing installed on it,the CPU goes crazy.

Any idea what the issue could be? Any help would be greatly apreciated 🙂 Thank you!

This is my config:CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6200U CPU @ 2.30GHz (2402.19 MHz)
Memory: 7892 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 64-bit (Build 7601)
Graphics Card Vendor: Intel
Graphics Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics 520
 


As i said,i havent update to sp2 bcs it was working perfect on SP1. And another reason was my game,wich is very tricky and "moody" and worked on this laptop,the short time i ussed it,very well,with SP1. I repeat,the laptop has 2 years and been bearly used..when the issue occured the hdd been used 430hrs...

What i need to know now is how long it takes for the update to SP2 to show up?