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High CPU Usage and Temps for Streaming Video

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Posted 15 February 2013 - 06:17 PM

I'm getting ~20% CPU usage and core temps ~50C with 2 browser windows open (one streaming video and the other not doing much, only a few tabs).

Here are my basic specs:
Win7 pro x64
i5-2500K stock clocks
M4 ssd
gtx 560 gpu
asrock z77e-itx board
8gb ram

The system typically idles around 40C, I'm not sure what's going on here. No other apps running aside from firefox atm. Thanks

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Posted 16 February 2013 - 12:20 AM

which process causes the CPU usage?

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Posted 16 February 2013 - 12:27 AM

View PostMagicAndre1981, on 16 February 2013 - 12:20 AM, said:

which process causes the CPU usage?


Please let me know how I can check.

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Posted 17 February 2013 - 12:16 AM

run Taskmgr.

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Posted 17 February 2013 - 12:40 AM

View PostMagicAndre1981, on 17 February 2013 - 12:16 AM, said:

run Taskmgr.


Thanks, I had looked there, but wasn't sure what figure to check. I assumed it would be in the processes tab under CPU (as a percent maybe), but idle processes show 99 so my assumption is obviously incorrect.

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Posted 19 February 2013 - 06:01 AM

View Postxmf, on 17 February 2013 - 12:40 AM, said:

View PostMagicAndre1981, on 17 February 2013 - 12:16 AM, said:

run Taskmgr.


Thanks, I had looked there, but wasn't sure what figure to check. I assumed it would be in the processes tab under CPU (as a percent maybe), but idle processes show 99 so my assumption is obviously incorrect.


Can someone please advise? Thanks

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Posted 19 February 2013 - 11:19 PM

if nothings shows up, why do you think you have high CPU usage?

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Posted 20 February 2013 - 01:23 AM

View PostMagicAndre1981, on 19 February 2013 - 11:19 PM, said:

if nothings shows up, why do you think you have high CPU usage?


The CPU usage in Taskmgr as described in my first post. To clarify post #5, I am not sure how to determine which process is causing the high cpu usage.

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Posted 20 February 2013 - 10:55 AM

Run ProcessExplorer as admin and look which process causes a high cpu usgae.

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