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25% cpu usage when idle

Kestas
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1 hour ago, Kestas said:

Im running a scrapyard build and in task manager i see my cpu is on 25% even when explorer.exe is shut down(windows 7).

 

Q6600

 

 

 

go to the processes tab and look for which process is leaking your performance, NOTE: you may have to click show processes from all users, and system idle process using 99 cpu is normal

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Just now, EpicKneusje said:

thats normal

Really? I suspect the dual-core i5 laptop I'm typing on now is less powerful than a Q6600 based system and even with a few Chrome tabs open and whatever background stuff is running, the CPU usage is only ~10%. Using 25% at what is essentially less than idle (most people have at least explorer.exe open at idle), doesn't sound normal to me. 

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It might be svchost being a douche like it always is. I found that it ALWAYS tries to whore up one core when Windows is trying to update/search for updates.

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what does task manager say about which processes are utilizing cpu?

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21 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

It might be svchost being a douche like it always is. I found that it ALWAYS tries to whore up one core when Windows is trying to update/search for updates.

Yeah it does.

It's called Service Host: Local System in Windows 10.

 

Regularly likes to use 100% CPU and Disk usage.

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Just now, deWaardt said:

Yeah it does.

It's called Service Host: Local System in Windows 10.

 

Regularly likes to use 100% CPU and Disk usage.

Wow.

 

One more reason for my to stay off Windows 10 I guess lmao.

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1 minute ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Wow.

 

One more reason for my to stay off Windows 10 I guess lmao.

In Windows 7 the service host did it's thing when the computer was idle and unused, when you started doing something it immediately stopped.

 

Windows 10 in the meanwhile does jackshit when idle, and obviously the best moment to start doing updates and crap is 5 minutes after you launch a game!

 

Fortunately it's not that bad once the updates are done and you're good to go.

 

Windows 10 just really forces updates on you, installing them even though you said "no", and it does that at the worst possible moments.

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Just now, deWaardt said:

In Windows 7 the service host did it's thing when the computer was idle and unused, when you started doing something it immediately stopped.

 

Windows 10 in the meanwhile does jackshit when idle, and obviously the best moment to start doing updates and crap is 5 minutes after you launch a game!

 

Fortunately it's not that bad once the updates are done and you're good to go.

 

Windows 10 just really forces updates on you, installing them even though you said "no", and it does that at the worst possible moments.

I legitimately intend to not leave 8.1 until I'm forced to. Windows 10 runs like crap for me, it looks terrible and the interface isn't even consistent across WINDOWS applications, and then the update system just was crap.

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Hmm, might be a bit heavy there. At the moment I have a few tabs open in firefox, running my VPN program, blustacks client, realtemp, file explorer windows open and jdownloader... and my system is pretty much idling at approx 800Mhz with occassional blips in usage, but when 800Mhz is approx 20-25% usage. which is normal in respect to the maximum load I currently have of 4Ghz.

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