CPU jumps so bad that sound glitches and mouse freezes while loading pages.

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Hi. New to forums. So yeah, just like the topic says. While surfing the internet in any browser, for no reason from out of no where while loading pages CPU % starts jumping so bad (while loading page is finished) that while playing music, sound starts glitching and mouse freezing.

And I am running on Win8x64 8GB RAM and i3. Computer is one year old and this never happened, OS was never reinstalled and I already reinstalled all possible drivers and updated BIOS.

Another interesting fact that this doesn't happen suddenly after booting the PC, it takes 1-2 hours of simple home usage of the PC to make this glitching and CPU jumping start. And no matter what browser, IE, FF, Chrome, Opera - tried all.

Scanned for viruses and malware, using Avast, Spybot Search & Destroy and Agnitum Firewall.

No new software or anything was installed for over a month and this started happening couple days ago.

Restarting fixes this, but after 1-2h it comes back.

I don't have any system restore points left.

I tried loading 10 programs at a time on full CPU 100% and sound doesn't glitch nor mouse freeze. Neither while copying files on HDD 100%, but it takes to load average-sized page, or just spam CTRL+F5 a bit to get even more glitching and CPU jumping. I am not even talking about loading 5 tabs at a time, it's like it's going to explode.

Please help, I tried everything, I can't even track down what the hell is the problem.

Also please don't offer running Linux or sit on Safe mode for 2 hours hoping if something happens, I cannot do that. I am sure it wouldn't fix anything, like I said this never happened before, just now out of nowhere and not immediately.

Cheers,
Ayla.
 
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Haha I think I solved it. It was Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro all along! I just closed it and shut down it's background service and glitches and lagging were all gone without restarting.

Can't believe it was the issue. Been using it for like ages! Found out it was going through every byte and bit while browsing/loading pages and was somehow taking up all CPU to process.

I guess this can be selected as solved!
Haha I think I solved it. It was Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro all along! I just closed it and shut down it's background service and glitches and lagging were all gone without restarting.

Can't believe it was the issue. Been using it for like ages! Found out it was going through every byte and bit while browsing/loading pages and was somehow taking up all CPU to process.

I guess this can be selected as solved!
 
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