25% CPU load from nvidia services

[Dryuce2199]

I have been having a problem with the 3 or 4 nvidia services that run in the background keeping my CPU load above 30% at all times. They are all showing up as "NVIDIA Driver Helper Service" and I have disabled all the nvidia services to get rid of them. My system now idles at 2-3%, but this seems a little odd.

 

System specs:

Win 10 build 15063

i7-6700k <stock speed>

Asus  z170 pro gaming

32GB of value ram <stock speed>

Evga geforce gtx 980 ti sc <stock speed> driver version: 21.21.13.7651

 

I'm sure the dust in the case needs to be cleaned out (if not a whole new case at this point), but the card is dust free. Any ideas?

[Nocte]

5 minutes ago, Dryuce2199 said:

I'm sure the dust in the case needs to be cleaned out (if not a whole new case at this point), but the card is dust free. Any ideas?

As bad as a dusty computer is, it does not increase components usage (other than the fans), unless your parts are throttling because the dust does not allow your PC parts to cool down.

8 minutes ago, Dryuce2199 said:

My system now idles at 2-3%, but this seems a little odd.

Sounds like a normal idle load to me.

[App4that]

If you use the GeForce experience, you're going to have a bad time.