Unusual CPU Usage Spikes

[MonsterHunter280]

My CPU usage randomly spikes while I'm idling. Is there anything I can do to help this? It also idles at rather high temperatures, spiking to 47C with an AIO liquid cooler.

The CPU is an Intel Core i5 4670k @ 4GHz

The liquid cooler is a Cooler Master MasterLiquid 240 (Not the Pro version)

Below are CPU temps and relative usage.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Guest]

Such thing happen often and don't really indicate anything wrong, happens on my pc all the time, since there are always background apps running even if it isn't visible to the user. It's probaly just a random app needing an update or something.

[MonsterHunter280]

1 minute ago, FTL said:

Such thing happen often and don't really indicate anything wrong, happens on my pc all the time, since there are always background apps running even if it isn't visible to the user. It's probaly just a random app needing an update or something.

Might be. The temp does spike to 51C when playing games but never gets higher. Is that high for a water cooler?

[Guest]

Just now, MonsterHunter280 said:

Might be. The temp does spike to 51C when playing games but never gets higher. Is that high for a water cooler?

CPU temperatures under 80C is considered fine. 81-90 could be critical, but still not enough to damage hardware. Temperatures above 90 could lead to system shutdown (still not harmful to your hardware, but something you want to avoid). There is no real way to damage your cpu unless you change settings in the bios. 

[Enderman]

This is normal, background processes sometimes cause spikes.

Go to the "processes" tab in taks manager if you want to find out which program is causing it.

BTW that one spike at the beginning happens every time you open up task manager.

[MonsterHunter280]

1 minute ago, FTL said:

CPU temperatures under 80C is considered fine. 81-90 could be critical, but still not enough to damage hardware. Temperatures above 90 could lead to system shutdown (still not harmful to your hardware, but something you want to avoid). There is no real way to damage your cpu unless you change settings in the bios. 

Thanks for your help