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See, but I don't necessarily think that's true. Also, I haven't been having this issue up until very recently, within the past two windows updates. Part of me thinks it might be my RAM speed which is 2133 but again, this only started happening recently. I never had any of these issues with these games until a few weeks ago.

Reposting from reddit because I think r/techsupport is dead I'm running an Intel 8600k and a GTX 1070. These numbers are pretty consistent on all games but these are from about 20 minutes of DOOM Eternal on High/Ultra, since it's a super well-optimized game. My CPU is running at a minimum of 90% usage on all cores and peaks to 100% usage every few seconds causing stuttering. GPU usage maxed at 25% during my session and runs at about 8-15% during most gameplay. This started very recently, within the past 2 or so Windows updates. I'm on Windows version 19041.685 and my GPU driver is 480.89. I've been experiencing this on all of my modern games, also including Halo MCC, GTAV, Fortnite, and DSIII. I've already tried reinstalling drivers a few times, and switching my power settings in control panel. It's also not a background program as the game exe itself is using all of the CPU. I don't necessarily want to do a full windows reinstall since I have a lot of things I want to keep and I don't have an extra drive to backup all my stuff to, so if there's a solution that doesn't involve it that would be fantastic. Thanks, I appreciate it in advance.

Wait, so it IS a hardware issue? And has intel been doing this since 1995? Do I really need to sell my CPU or can I just wait for a fix and live with the bad performance?

This PC is very good, if a little bit unbalanced towards the CPU side of things.

I'm still confused, though. I understand that there will be a general performance loss across the board. I just want to know if it will ever be fixed, if it is repairable

Right, I read that to fix it would require a full OS rewrite. So it won't ever be fixed?

I'm super pissed as I'm sure all of the Intel owners are. The last part for my first rig ever is arriving tomorrow, and I already have the 8600k in storage. Does anyone know if the performance loss caused by the patch will ever be fixed, if it even can be fixed?

My first build was an office PC for my dad. I literally didn't screw up at all, which was surprising considering I had only a vague idea of what I was doing. It booted on my first try, and everything was detected and running at the right speeds.

Which one should I buy? Gaming and Productivity