i5 6500 constantly spiking to 100% CPU usage, causing my games to freeze often

[norxiao]

I've had this issue for a while now and I have no idea why, I bought a new pc in October. Here's a screenshot of the specs: https://gyazo.com/1fa35de361dfca14488b8452006b4bd1

 

[kaptainkuftic]

What games are you seeing this issue in? More often than not this is the sign of a CPU bottleneck in CPU intensive games

 

[norxiao]

Every game I play. Happens in Heroes of the storm, league of legends, path of exile, csgo, and any other games i occasionally play

 

[kaptainkuftic]

The 6500 should definitely be capable of handling those. Couple things to try looking into:

- Are you running anything in the background?
- if you go to device manager, do you see any options with a yellow or red symbol next to them?
- what is your GPU usage?
- are you monitoring temperatures, if so, what are they in game?

 

[norxiao]

Even when I'm not running anything in the background it happens.
There are no yellow or red symbols there
I'll check my gpu usage during a game.
and according to msi afterburner the temp while ingame is 40 degrees celcius

 

[kaptainkuftic]

Couple more questions, but definitely do get a percentage for GPU usage:

- Do you have anything overclocked?
- When was the last time you installed drivers for the GPU or motherboard?

 

[King_V]

Possibly a virus or other malware running in the background?

 

[norxiao]

Couple more questions, but definitely do get a percentage for GPU usage:

- Do you have anything overclocked?
- When was the last time you installed drivers for the GPU or motherboard?

Sometimes I set core clock and memory clock on msi after burner to +50
gpu usage is around 20-50, sometimes jumping to 90ish

 

[kaptainkuftic]

Try setting all of that back to default. Could be unstable. Doesn't seem like it should affect your CPU though.

Definitely look into running malwarebytes and avast to see if there is malware affecting your system.

If none of that helps, I'm out of ideas

 

[norxiao]

most of the time I don't have it on though

 

[norxiao]

Going to try running a scan

 

[kaptainkuftic]

Whatever the last settings you applied in Afterburner were are the settings you'll have, even if you uninstall Afterburner.

 

[TerryLaze]

and according to msi afterburner the temp while ingame is 40 degrees celcius

40 is too low, this probably means that the cpu is running in power save mode(much lower clocks to save power) ,unless you have a super cooler running at top speeds all the time.