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What causes my high CPU usage?

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by aqery, Jan 27, 2014.

  1. aqery

    aqery Regular member

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    Hello!

    My CPU usage is rising up to 80-100% and i can't play. i have formated my computer for 2 times now and don't know what's causing this. When CPU usage goes up to 80% i'm not able to play games anymore because of the lagg i got.

    i haven't had this problem before but this started yesterday... i don't know what to do.

    I have cleaned my computer with CCleaner, Avast and anti-malware.
    i haven't had this problem before, this started yesterday.

    EDIT; sry for bad spelling, my motherlanguage is not english :)

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  2. attar

    attar Senior member

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    In Task Manager,click View > Select columns > PID
    svchost.exe seems high.
    Run SvcHostViewer and find out what the PID is doing.

    http://svchostviewer.codeplex.com/

    As an aside, those power temps look high for the CPU.
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    is your cpu heatsink & fan assembly clean?
     
  4. aqery

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    Thanks, I'm going to check heatsink & fan tomorrow and also run SvcHostViewer. I played today lots of games and only got "High CPU usage" spikes couple of times (There were less spikes by night. Now i haven't had any in 6 recently hours).

    I was really suprised that my computer kind of fixed itself.
    Power temps are high only during spikes :/
     
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