"System" high CPU usage

Super Spartan · January 16, 2019

26 minutes ago, Eastman51 said:

Didn't actually fix the problem. I'm just going to do a clean install; this gives me a good excuse to put the time into creating a custom Windows image.

That's the best plan man! Good luck

homeap5 · January 17, 2019

And we will wait for another post like "I made clean install and I have problem with..." or "nothing changed".

Eastman51 · January 17, 2019

16 hours ago, homeap5 said:

And we will wait for another post like "I made clean install and I have problem with..." or "nothing changed".

Great call, because its still doing it. Though it seems to be more sporadic, not always using too much and sometimes using even more than it used to. I manually checked to make sure Windows was up to date and didn't install as much software this time around as well.

Still have no idea wtf is going on, it especially bothers me when I'm sitting in class for less than an hour and I drop over 50% battery while merely typing in MS Word

Eastman51 · January 18, 2019

17 hours ago, homeap5 said:

And we will wait for another post like "I made clean install and I have problem with..." or "nothing changed".

Scratch that. I found the culprit.

When I opened HWmonitor, the system CPU usage immediately spiked and stayed up there. Closing HWmonitor caused system to drop again. Using HWinfo64 doesn't yield the same result, for some reason.

Super Spartan · January 18, 2019

6 minutes ago, Eastman51 said:

Scratch that. I found the culprit.

When I opened HWmonitor, the system CPU usage immediately spiked and stayed up there. Closing HWmonitor caused system to drop again. Using HWinfo64 doesn't yield the same result, for some reason.

Wow, who would've thought. Thanks for sharing this.

Cheers

Gklasse83 · February 10, 2020

On 1/18/2019 at 7:16 AM, Eastman51 said:

Scratch that. I found the culprit.

When I opened HWmonitor, the system CPU usage immediately spiked and stayed up there. Closing HWmonitor caused system to drop again. Using HWinfo64 doesn't yield the same result, for some reason.

Happened to me too! I have always used HWmonitor when I had gaming laptops years ago, then never used them again when I stopped playing games and switched to an utrabook with no dedicated graphics, just never needed to check the temperature as the fans even rarely on.

Recently I bought Asus Zenbook 15 with Core i7-10510U and GTX 1650 for casual photo/video editing and some light gaming on the side. I thought I download HWmonitor again to see how hot it gets when I noticed the fans spinning more when HWmonitor active and nothing else was on (not even the internet browser). So I opened task manager to see if any apps might be active.. just to see the system use 15-25% of CPU load, and when i close HWmonitor, the system loads drop to idle. I thought it was weird. Reading your post, I downloaded HWinfo64, and happy to report it runs great without using CPU load. Thanks!