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CPU Usage at 100%, Idling at 52~

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Hi all.

 

Built my pc today for christmas. Been checking up on things, updating drivers etc. Noticed that my CPU is sitting at 100% usage in MSI afterburner and in task manager and is idling at 52~. I haven't even played any games. Help?

 

Specs:

i5 4430

Z87X-D3H Motherboard

Arctic 11 Cooler

8GB HyperX Fury RAM

EVGA 650W Supernova NEX Gold

Gigabyte 960 G1 Gaming 2GB.

 

I bought the CPU as B-Grade from a very very trustworthy store that test all of their goods before they put it up. Any help? I'm really freaked out.

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did you add enough thermal paste.

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did you add enough thermal paste.

 

I did, yes. I watched one of linus' videos on it.

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Hi all.

 

Built my pc today for christmas. Been checking up on things, updating drivers etc. Noticed that my CPU is sitting at 100% usage in MSI afterburner and in task manager and is idling at 52~. I haven't even played any games. Help?

 

Specs:

i5 4430

Z87X-D3H Motherboard

Arctic 11 Cooler

8GB HyperX Fury RAM

EVGA 650W Supernova NEX Gold

Gigabyte 960 G1 Gaming 2GB.

 

I bought the CPU as B-Grade from a very very trustworthy store that test all of their goods before they put it up. Any help? I'm really freaked out.

wait so its at 52 degrees at idle? seems hot, with the stock cooler in my mini-ITX case my 4460 idles around 34-36 degrees

 

 

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wait so its at 52 degrees at idle? seems hot, with the stock cooler in my mini-ITX case my 4460 idles around 34-36 degrees

 

yeah

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yeah

is it C or Fahrenheit 

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a last gen console for use once a year. I should answer most of the time between 9 to 3 PST

NightHawk 3.0: R7 5700x @, B550A vision D, H105, 2x32gb Oloy 3600, Sapphire RX 6700XT  Nitro+, Corsair RM750X, 500 gb 850 evo, 2tb rocket and 5tb Toshiba x300, 2x 6TB WD Black W10 all in a 750D airflow.
GF PC: (nighthawk 2.0): R7 2700x, B450m vision D, 4x8gb Geli 2933, Strix GTX970, CX650M RGB, Obsidian 350D

Skunkworks: R5 3500U, 16gb, 500gb Adata XPG 6000 lite, Vega 8. HP probook G455R G6 Ubuntu 20. LTS

Condor (MC server): 6600K, z170m plus, 16gb corsair vengeance LPX, samsung 750 evo, EVGA BR 450.

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C, sorry for not saying in main post.

ok because if it was Fahrenheit that would be good. 

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a last gen console for use once a year. I should answer most of the time between 9 to 3 PST

NightHawk 3.0: R7 5700x @, B550A vision D, H105, 2x32gb Oloy 3600, Sapphire RX 6700XT  Nitro+, Corsair RM750X, 500 gb 850 evo, 2tb rocket and 5tb Toshiba x300, 2x 6TB WD Black W10 all in a 750D airflow.
GF PC: (nighthawk 2.0): R7 2700x, B450m vision D, 4x8gb Geli 2933, Strix GTX970, CX650M RGB, Obsidian 350D

Skunkworks: R5 3500U, 16gb, 500gb Adata XPG 6000 lite, Vega 8. HP probook G455R G6 Ubuntu 20. LTS

Condor (MC server): 6600K, z170m plus, 16gb corsair vengeance LPX, samsung 750 evo, EVGA BR 450.

Spirt  (NAS) ASUS Z9PR-D12, 2x E5 2620V2, 8x4gb, 24 3tb HDD. F80 800gb cache, trueNAS, 2x12disk raid Z3 stripped

PSU Tier List      Motherboard Tier List     SSD Tier List     How to get PC parts cheap    HP probook 445R G6 review

 

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C, sorry for not saying in main post.

Did you check task manager to see what tasks are using the majority of that 100%

 

 

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Did you check task manager to see what tasks are using the majority of that 100%

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Why is your CPU 100% usage when at idle?

 

I don't know. I wouldn't be aksing otherwise

 

Did you check task manager to see what tasks are using the majority of that 100%

 

Yeah I did, it says svchost is doing it, but I don't think it could be.

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I don't know. I wouldn't be aksing otherwise

 

 

Yeah I did, it says svchost is doing it, but I don't think it could be.

Try restating and see if it resolves your high CPU usage.

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I don't know. I wouldn't be aksing otherwise

 

 

Yeah I did, there isn't anything that is doing it

I would suggest going through everything, and noting which ones are using the most CPU power and listing them here, all the background programs also. BTW did you install programs on the PC like chrome and stuff or just drivers?

 

 

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Try restating and see if it resolves your high CPU usage.

well that will help in the short term but if there is a program using a lot of CPU resources, or a memory leak in a closed tab of chrome for example, it will occur again until you deal with it.

 

 

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I would suggest going through everything, and noting which ones are using the most CPU power and listing them here, all the background programs also. BTW did you install programs on the PC like chrome and stuff or just drivers?

 

Drivers, chrome, geforce experience, steam and spotify. That's it. And I will, but it's mainly just svchost

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my 8 core fx never hits above 80% for more than 1 second, even when gaming. it idles at 2-13% when browsing. 30-60% when heavy gaming. I find more cores a cpu has, the less likely the chance that some bug and loop will eat up all the cpu resources, causing the entire system to freeze. 

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UPDATE:

 

Took the CPU  out and back to the shop, exchanged it and £50 for a 4670k. Used the stock cooler instead of the Arctic 11 and I'm getting good temps, CPU is no longer at 100% all the damn time.

 

Merry christmas to all and thanks for the help!

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