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Extremely high CPU usage

n3rdf1ght3r

n3rdf1ght3r

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System Specs
System Name That computer
Processor Intel I7 960 OC @ 4GHz
Motherboard Gigabyte G.1 Guerilla
Cooling Corsair H80
Memory 12gb G.Skill DDR3 1333MHz
Video Card(s) Gigabyte Radeon 6950 2GB
Storage 120GB Samsung 840, 2x 1TB WD Black Raid 0
Display(s) 2X ACER S232HL
Case Thermaltake Amour A90
Audio Device(s) Asus Xonar DX
Power Supply 600W OCZ MODXSTREAM PRO
Software Windows 7 Ultimate x64
I recently noticed that my laptop is really sluggish. Opening up the resource manager, I would notice that processes such as system, avp (kaspersky), and chrome would shoot up to 137% CPU usage at the same time. I thought it might have been malware or a virus so I ran malwarebytes in safe mode, as well as rkill and Emsisoft emergency tool kit. I also did a full scan with Kaspersky to do a final check. All scans came up with 0 viruses/malware so I then went to check on the drivers. Those were all the latest versions. So now i'm stuck, anyone know anything about this?

System Specs:
Asus N56VZ
Intel core i5 3210M
8GB DDR3 1600MHz
Nvidia GTX 650M 2GB
Windows 7 Pro x64

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I couldn't seem to replicate the over 100% cpu usage again
 
Look at your memory usage, it says 178 megs free. Your CPU's probably busy swapping between the memory and the drive.
 
uninstall your AV and use firefox.
 
install http://www.avira.com and in firewall click high level of security . its definitely will help you .
 
Bugler said:
Look at your memory usage, it says 178 megs free. Your CPU's probably busy swapping between the memory and the drive.
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Any idea on how to fix that, I would Google that myself but I have no clue what to search.
 
Really no idea but about half of your memory is cached so some programs are reserving the memory like crazy.
 
It looks like your laptop is sticking in power-save mode. Note how maximum frequency doesn't go above 59%.

Use the performance monitor in Administrative Tools and graph using % Processor Time along with %C1, %C2, and %C3. If your CPU is loaded, the amount of time spent in a low power state should be very low. At idle or low load, it should look something like this.

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I don't know why Microsoft decided to use red for Processor time and %C1 time
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It was the PIO problem, you just set you DMA and reinstalling drivers and it will be fix the speed, then you will get pc as before and with the same speed ;)
 
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