CPU usage unstable? HELP!

MisterCamper

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Nov 1, 2015
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So a week ago while playing diablo3 I've noticed something is wrong... it was very laggy so I decided to put all settings down to low even tho recommended was ultra settings. Then I went to play other games such as cs:go and lol when I realized that even with ultra or very low settings the fps is under 60 ? This is a trouble since it was always 100+ . I went to reinstall windows with clean installation and formated all drives but that didn't help me. I suspect the faulty is in cpu since on HWMonitor it the cpu usage is unstable and easily reaches 100% on some cores when I'm not even doing any gaming.
My RIG : 8gb kingston DDR3 RAM, i5 4690k, msi z97 gaming3 and msi GTX 960 2GB
 
Solution
Go into your Power settings and set the Power Plan to High Performance. It could be that Windows is lowering you multiplier when it shouldn't be.