Hey guys, I'm on tomshardware again because this is pretty much always the best place to go to.
Recently I've traveled on a 4 hour car trip to my best friend's house, and I always tote along my gigantic desktop because, that's just what we do. We don't believe in laptops.
Anyways, before then, everything was fine. I don't see how this would have changed anything as the desktop was compact in its original box and bungeecord-ed to the seat so there was NO movement, but I decided to mention it.
Basically, the computer is started up, I have just a few processes running. Firefox, AIM, Skype, Steam, Razer Synapse, a few other minimal processes that come up once Windows starts. I took a look at the task manager, the CPU is always absolutely maxed out at 100%. I looked at the possible causes and it's just handing ALL of the CPU usage to a random program of choice, even programs that literally aren't even doing anything, then when I open something else, that program doing the same thing uses 2-5% instead.
When I open anything intensive, such as a next-gen graphics Steam game or realistically any game I have on this computer, a whining noise starts coming from within my case around the motherboard/PSU area. I've seen around that these are harmless, but I want to secure the issue with my own personal thread as there is simply nothing that relates to my case. Basically my problem is, it may be harmless, but what may have happened/what can I do to fix these things? I simply don't want my parts to be just maxed out on idle, and I can't play anything with that god awful whining noise.
There are no affects on the speed of my computer. Everything remains to be lightning speed and all games reach my refresh rate of 144 HZ.
Specs:
CPU: Intel i5 4690k
RAM: 16 GB G.Skill Ripjaws X 2133 mhz
Motherboard: ASUS Z97-P
GPU: EVGA GTX 980 Superclocked 4 GB
PSU: Corsair 750W CX750
Main Hard Drive: 120GB Kingston V300 SSD
Secondary Hard Drive: 2TB 7200RPM HARD DRIVE Pretty sure it is seagate, I honestly forgot.
OS: Windows 8.1, but I know this probably doesn't even matter.
I'll be actively looking for responses so if you have any questions make sure to check back soon.
Recently I've traveled on a 4 hour car trip to my best friend's house, and I always tote along my gigantic desktop because, that's just what we do. We don't believe in laptops.
Anyways, before then, everything was fine. I don't see how this would have changed anything as the desktop was compact in its original box and bungeecord-ed to the seat so there was NO movement, but I decided to mention it.
Basically, the computer is started up, I have just a few processes running. Firefox, AIM, Skype, Steam, Razer Synapse, a few other minimal processes that come up once Windows starts. I took a look at the task manager, the CPU is always absolutely maxed out at 100%. I looked at the possible causes and it's just handing ALL of the CPU usage to a random program of choice, even programs that literally aren't even doing anything, then when I open something else, that program doing the same thing uses 2-5% instead.
When I open anything intensive, such as a next-gen graphics Steam game or realistically any game I have on this computer, a whining noise starts coming from within my case around the motherboard/PSU area. I've seen around that these are harmless, but I want to secure the issue with my own personal thread as there is simply nothing that relates to my case. Basically my problem is, it may be harmless, but what may have happened/what can I do to fix these things? I simply don't want my parts to be just maxed out on idle, and I can't play anything with that god awful whining noise.
There are no affects on the speed of my computer. Everything remains to be lightning speed and all games reach my refresh rate of 144 HZ.
Specs:
CPU: Intel i5 4690k
RAM: 16 GB G.Skill Ripjaws X 2133 mhz
Motherboard: ASUS Z97-P
GPU: EVGA GTX 980 Superclocked 4 GB
PSU: Corsair 750W CX750
Main Hard Drive: 120GB Kingston V300 SSD
Secondary Hard Drive: 2TB 7200RPM HARD DRIVE Pretty sure it is seagate, I honestly forgot.
OS: Windows 8.1, but I know this probably doesn't even matter.
I'll be actively looking for responses so if you have any questions make sure to check back soon.
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram