Windows 10 Home CPU doing some business when i'm not looking?

[Alex2154]

Hi,

Recently installed the thermaltake riing premium RGB fans, and i have them set to 'termal' mode which corresponds to my cpu temp.

I noticed that if i starts to afk for about 5 minute, 80% of the time my cpu temp would go up because the RGB rings will show a pale green color which indicates a temp around 50degrees c, my idle temps are usually at 35 or below.

I have a 6600k overclocked at 4.3, 50 degrees is usually the temp i get from playing a mild cpu heavy game like civ6.

 

But the thing is, as soon as i pull up task manager to see what's going on, the temp would go down straight away to idle temp and no process is taking significant of cpu workload.

Same thing happens when i stopped every single 3rd party program including all antivirus and windows protector, i also have no disk optimisation programs running.

I also tried to have task manager in front of me and then go afk, but nothing happens at all.

 

I want to know if anyone else have similar experience? Because i can't help my self to think there is something fishy going on with windows 10, and i really want to identify the source of this ninja cpu hogging process.

[WereCatf]

Windows has always had plenty of stuff going in the background once the system goes idle, that's nothing new. Stuff like defragging HDDs, scouring the Windows store for updates, cleaning up and compressing MSI-stuff and so on. Also, you may have installed something else that also does their own stuff in the background when idle.

[Zipfire]

review your resource monitor maybe someone is using your spare cycles spyware is fun opps I mean funny stuff

 

[Jurrunio]

could be malware. If antivirus doesnt work, try reinstall Windows.