I could be sitting idle at my desktop and the CPU will jump to 100% for like a second then back down to about 10%. it causes the screen to freeze for like a half second-full second. the CPU never reaches a high temp and GPU is a 1080 so it handles everything just fine.
also when I play games, (ie rainbow six siege/war thunder), it'll max out at 100% for the entire time I am playing. Dont think that's suppose to happen...
I am at a loss. when I get home today, I can post a screenshot of some monitoring software to show the spikes.
I have an i5 7600K Kaby Lake.
GPU is MSI GeForce 1080 Duke.
I just updated to an 850W PSU over the weekend.
Any Ideas???
the only one I have is that background processes are slowing it down, but I looked into the background processes taking ANY CPU resources and all of them are "necessary windows operations". I also completely blew away windows and reinstalled the OS. didnt seem to help at all.
Thanks in advance.