CPU Spikes I cant Find Problem!

DanieEsli

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I'll first show my system specs: ASUS GL771JM 17-Inch

Windows 10 64-bit (I just did the most recent update on 01-11-2016) CPU: Intel i7-4710HQ @ 2.50GHz RAM: 12 GB HD: 931 GB Hitachi HGST HTS721010A9E630 (SATA)
NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 860m
I'm running Webroot SecureAnywhere as my AV and that's about it.

Ok, so this problem has just occurred recently:

Whenever I produce my music on this laptop, play video games, even listen to music, I'll hear like split-second "glitch" sounds as if my computer CPU is spiking. I've updated everything I could in my computer (Windows, video card, etc.)

I have even downloaded Malwarebytes and did a scan TWICE just to make sure I dont have anything running in the background that is making this happen.

*I went the task manager to check the readings of my cpu and i havent seen any sudden spikes when this happens. I also checked temp ( i think ) of cpu and im not whats normal and whats not.

I also spoke to a Webroot representative to help me out and i uninstalld webroot, restarted computer, tested it out and its till did the glitch sounds. I then reinstalled webroot and the same problem occurred.

This is really an inconvenience especially when I'm producing my music. I have the battery power switched to High Performance so that I may produce with no weird cpu spikes that fl studio sometimes does.

Any help is deeply appreciated. Thank you!
 
So if the task manager does not show the CPU spiking and you haven't been able to verify that happens when one of these "glitches" happen, why are you stuck on it being a CPU problem? Have you seen anything else that might signal it is?

One thing, too, I would get rid of Webroot. They can be a lot like Norton/Symantec in the fact that it's a resource hog. Uninstall that and I can almost guarantee your performance will get better. Besides if that's all you're using it for is AV, download Avast, it's free and much better.
 


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Thank you for the reply, man.
I honestly dont know how to monitor if its a temperature problem or a spike problem. I just look at the monitors and actually now that i remember, when it did the "glitch" i saw sometimes the cpu monitor spike up a bit and sometimes the hardrive would too but not at the same time. Any suggestions?
 
As I said, I would first get rid of Webroot. I have known that program to greatly slow things down.

But honestly, it sounds like your computer may just be cluttered. Run disk cleanup, go through msconfig, download Ace Utilities from download.com, etc. Once you run all of these, let us know if it all improves.

Let me know if you need any help with those programs I mentioned.
 


i did a disk degrag, a disk clean up, but i havent uninstalled webroot but only because i wanted to ask you some things about that.

I uninstalled webroot and restarted my computer to see if that was the cause. when i restarted, the problem was still occurring.
I dont want to take it to a tech professional and pay because im extremely short on money at the moment.

What does Ace Utilities do and do you know any other method of what may be causing these glitches???

EDIT: i reinstalled webroot since when i uninstalled it, it was still giving me issues
 
Ace Utilities is a cleaning program I have used in the past. It cleans your temp files, registry, everything. I think they have it available as trialware for 30 days or something.

Did you go through msconfig to see all the programs starting up with your computer?

I'm seriously convinced this is a clutter problem.