CPU Spikes on ANY download and Speedtests

[_Dawnte_]

Hi, I recently made my pc about a month ago, he's a decent boye. The PC worked fine since it was made until now. I first noticed this when I was downloading on Steam and every time i started the download my PC started to chug every second, sound breaking, ,the whole package, absolutely unusable, so i decided to monitor the marks on the PC and i found the CPU Peaking on every single time i was downloading ANYTHING! So i did some testing and the issue did not stop at steam, downloading through google, or torrents and the biggest one, simply SPEEDTESTING the internet absolutely bricks the PC for as long as the test is going. Below should be that spike on the CPU utilization for my speed test. The strangest part is that i dont experience any issues in game or when stress testing the CPU. It only happens when downloading.

 

I also tested it on other devices perhaps it being a network issue but using the same network cable on my pc to my laptop and ps4 did not provide any lag whatsoever when downloading the same things. 

Finally i tested all my drives which all work perfectly and tried downloading on all of em including the SSDs M.2s and Harddrives giving me the same result ONLY on the new PC. 

 

I am thoroughly confused now and have no one else to ask for help...Heres some more computer specs below:

• AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT (no overclock)
• BM550M Aorus Pro
• RTX 3070 (i got lucky)
• 32GB 3200MHz Corsair Vengeance
• Samsung 970 boot drive
• Samsing 970 SSD storage
• WDBlue 2Tb storage

[SkyeAwoo]

It is normal for the CPU to suddenly sustain usage when downloading files ETC... but for things to completely break that is not normal.

[_Dawnte_]

Just now, CookieKittu said:

It is normal for the CPU to suddenly sustain usage when downloading files ETC... but for things to completely break that is not normal.

Yeah I understand that the CPU plays a large role in downloading, specially on decompression, however it's strange when also dealing with speed tests which, as for what i understand, doesn't need decompression of any kind....Not to my knowledge atleast

 

Either way, this thing goes full potato 

[SkyeAwoo]

I'll do a speed test for comparison as I've never checked that when doing it.

[SkyeAwoo]

Upon doing a speed test i noticed a small usage of the CPU roughly 2-3% tops.

[_Dawnte_]

Well thats not a good sign... Thank you for the effort to test it anyway~

 

[SkyeAwoo]

Download HWINFO64 if you haven't already and load up the sensors. Find the CPU area and then monitor temps when you do these things, it is possible that it is overheating so much that it is thermal throttling and causing these issues, why that would be unsure but it is one step to check first before proceeding onto other things.

[_Dawnte_]

Temps seem pretty normal to me, i got an AIO on the processor, spikes on the right caused lag on the PC when i started up a download and speedtest again

[SkyeAwoo]

Yeah temp is pretty good but for being mostly idle your power deviation is rather very far off. Mine is usually 200%~+ when idle or just browsing. Unlikely the cause but also strange. Have you modified any bios settings? Did you update your chipset drivers for your CPU? What power plan do you use.. ETC 

 

[_Dawnte_]

I intentionally didint change any bios settings exept for RAM XMP to keep the device as stable as possible even with reduction of performance. I updated all of my drivers for all devices. Motherboard however was last updated when it was created at around early January, but again the PC never showed this issue prior to this week..

My power plan atm is on AMD high performance, I've tested a restart on High performance, but gave the same results... I'll do a quick test with it on on balanced  

[SkyeAwoo]

Yeah it is rather hard to help with the delay in time for update. It'd probably be easier to help you with messaging on discord or something like that.

[_Dawnte_]

That would be cool, I'll send you a message, Thank you!