105% usage cpu

James blonde · January 11, 2021

105 percent ok so i came back to home from a while away and i booted up my pc started really slow ran cinebench and went into myu task manager and into resource monitor and saw 105% usage on cpu how is that ?

Skiiwee29 · January 11, 2021

it cant... just a reporting glitch. Its about the only thing good windows done in Monitoring.. not monitoring properly

manikyath · January 11, 2021

18 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

it cant... just a reporting glitch. Its about the only thing good windows done in Monitoring.. not monitoring properly

resource monitor does things oddly..

he may be referring to the cpu clock speed, which takes "base clock" as 100%, so if you have a device with 2GHz base clock, and 3GHz boost clock, the dial will go to "150%".

if i recall... the 'cpu usage' graph does stick to 100% metric... but it may report a single core as "100%" in some places, meaning that you could technically have "400%" usage on a quad core.