CPU utilisation 95% temp, 39c?!

[NewPug]

Hi Everyone, been a fan of the channel for a few months, love the content, and just returning to computer building after 10 year gap.

 

So I'm running an old faithful desktop running a AMD FX 4100 processor, computer has been running fine until the last week or two when suddenly as soon as I load any games (Tomb Raider, Superhot, PC Building Simulator or Crysis) the CPU goes to nearly max load, but the temperatures barely rise. Only noticed because FPS has gone down to 1 on any of those games on low settings. Come out of the game and CPU usage drops back down to around 10% and the temp will drop back down to 11 or so

 

I have done a disk clean, de-frag (Why not) and multiple virus scans, removed any old programs, set GPU overclock back to default (TR worked before overclocking), I haven't really touched the CPU to confidently overclock at them moment.

 

Rest of the Spec:

Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P MoBo

Trident Viper 8 GB DDR3  RAM

Radeon RX 550

1TB HDD

Corsair GS600 power supply

 

I'm double checking drivers are all up to date for Chipset and GPU. Any other suggestions (I will humour System upgrade - I was hoping to get one later in the year I just need to get a couple more months out of this one) Any suggestions to get a few more months out of this thing will be greatly appreciated as I'm out of ideas.

 

Cheers :)

 

 

[PlayStation 2]

The way that Bulldozer-based CPUs read temperatures is all fucky. I forget how you're supposed to actually read 'em but you're not really supposed to believe the standard CPU temp.

That being said, the FX-4100 doesn't really run too hot, provided that you're using a decent cooler. What cooler do you have?

[NewPug]

Okay, not only am I a noob, but a forum noob as well - GPU graphics card had been uninstalled - No idea how or why but that appears to have enabled the ability to kill aliens again..

 

Sorry for the wasted time... I now expect mocking >.<

[NewPug]

Cheers for the response, as said above - it was the GPU driver going missing, re-installed and it's all running back to expected results. >.<

 

TBH it's a second hand desktop from a friend, it's got the lovely stock cooler on which amazes me (and also why I didn't want to look at oc too much with it).

[mxk]

1 minute ago, Disgraced Pug said:

Cheers for the response, as said above - it was the GPU driver going missing, re-installed and it's all running back to expected results. >.<

 

TBH it's a second hand desktop from a friend, it's got the lovely stock cooler on which amazes me (and also why I didn't want to look at oc too much with it).

hey, just a heads up. you have to quote people to make sure they get a notification of your reply to them. you can quote someone by using the arrow in the bottom of the comment boxes.

 

 

[Mira Yurizaki]

CPU utilization is the time not spent running the System Idle Process. As long as an app has the CPU's time, the CPU will show up as being "used." The app may not even be doing anything useful or taxing.

[aezakmi]

13 minutes ago, handymanshandle said:

The way that Bulldozer-based CPUs read temperatures is all fucky. I forget how you're supposed to actually read 'em but you're not really supposed to believe the standard CPU temp.

That being said, the FX-4100 doesn't really run too hot, provided that you're using a decent cooler. What cooler do you have?

I think you read it as how close the chip is from the max TJ temperature

for example if the temp on the sensor is "70C" it means you're 70C away from the max temp

 

so 70C is actually lower than 30C..... I know, it doesn't makes any sense but believe me it does.