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i noticed that my cpu would not down clock and would run at max turbo even at idle. A quick look in windows 10 task manager revealed that i had a constant write on my C: drive (SSD) of about 25 MB/s. Even at idle with no applications open for hours on end. turns out windows defender was constantly writing to c:/windows/logs and running about 15% CPU usage. after disabling windows defender anti-malware via gpedit.msc, my cpu now down clocks, while idle, my ssd sees much less activity and my cinebench score moved from 630 to 733.

 

Is this a fluke on my PC or is it something that may be affecting others without them noticing. over the pass month ive had over 2 terabytes of data written to my ssd.

 

My setup: i7-2600 @4.07ghz, 16gb, gtx 970, corsair neutron xt (SSD)

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probably a fluke TBH

windows has so many variables that everybody on earth could probably reproduce a unique issue that nobody has ever had before. </hyperbole>

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my friend disabled his windows defender and his cinebench score moved from 640-ish to 760, but as with most people with an ssd the high disk usage(writes) wont be very noticeable

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7 minutes ago, BULLETBEEF | JA said:

my friend disabled his windows defender and his cinebench score moved from 640-ish to 760, but as with most people with an ssd the high disk usage(writes) wont be very noticeable

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Not to go off topic but you are supposed to disable that before running Cine-bench anyhow, anything running in the background will interfere with the test results. FYI

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Just now, SansVarnic said:

Your supposed to disable that before running Cine-bench anyhow, anything running in the background will interfere with the test results. FYI

true, but most people = fresh copy of windows then start bench marking with defender running in the background still. and it wasn't always like this defender used to be quieter than most other AV software

 

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