New Laptop: Spiking CPU.

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Luke

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Hey all,

I purchased this laptop (http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/mirage/) from PCS; it got sent today and I've been going through the set-up, installing things and generally getting to grips with it. Haven't added or installed anything major to it. and yet I seem to be getting severe CPU spikes, jumping right up to 100%. This is, as you can imagine, slowing down performance, for example, opening up Mozzilla or IE sends it straight to 100%.

So I'm just interested in seeing what could be done, tried or tested to improve this issue.

Thanks in advance!


P.S: The link is pretty much the exact specification I have, though I doubled the RAM to 4GB (2x 2)
 
vanthus

vanthus

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Have a look at the resource monitor to see if anything is hogging CPU usage.
The processes are listed in order of usage,
go to control panel/performance information and tools/advanced tools/open resource monitor/click the CPU tab.
 
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Wozza63

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of course when opening it, it is likely to spike to 100 considering your processor isnt all that powerful, as long as it goes straight back down once loaded you are fine
 
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ZickGiven

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I would go back to the seller as soon as I can, if my new laptop shows that kind of performance.
you might need to have a word with him, and let him see what is wrong.
 
Gorman

Gorman

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The seller would most likely point out that the CPU spiking at 100% is kind of what it is designed for, we dont sell CPU's limited to 99% of their ability.

This is a realtively low end CPU we are talking about here with a core speed of 1.5Ghz, can we get some screenshots of the resource monitor to get a better picture of what is going on?
 
Frenchy

Frenchy

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As mentioned previously, I dont think theres anything unusual going on here. The word spiking to me suggests that it is doing it for a brief moment then returning to normal. This is as gorman posted what you would want for your cpu, you want it to use all of its potential to load your applications, whats the point in having a computer thats lazy and only uses 20% of its potential.

But yeah anyway, it, as suggested by others, would be useful to see your processes to see if there is anything unusual going on. Screenie the processes, memory and cpu usage statistics, all in the ctrl + alt + delete -> task manager window.
 
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Luke

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Here we go:


Processes3.jpg

Processes.jpg

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Frenchy

Frenchy

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looks fine, cpu useage is low while normal running, as you said the spike is when loading, which you would expect.

You do have a lot of processes running, im not sure ive ever seen quite so many lol
 
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Wozza63

Biblical Poster
1st picture = proof that AVG rules

bullguard using 10k, AVG Free uses about 2k on my laptop

just saying
 
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Luke

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I did wonder about Bullguard, it was pre-loaded onto the system and I think I'm going to remove it. As for the rest of the processes I really have no idea where they came from, I've hardly installed anything.

Final thing: this is just a period of me browsing the web, watching youtube videos and writing emails. As you can see sometimes it does more than spike.

Thanks for all your help so far!
CPU.png
 
Frenchy

Frenchy

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Luke said:
I did wonder about Bullguard, it was pre-loaded onto the system and I think I'm going to remove it. As for the rest of the processes I really have no idea where they came from, I've hardly installed anything.

Final thing: this is just a period of me browsing the web, watching youtube videos and writing emails. As you can see sometimes it does more than spike.

Thanks for all your help so far!
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Looks fine, as gorman said its not the most powerful of processors, plus its on a 13inch so bound to be slower anyway. :) dnt worry bout it.
 
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Luke

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Alright then. I a now not worrying! :) Just wanted to make sure; I wasn't expecting great things from a 1.5 processor, I guess it was just a bit of a shock from what I'm used to. I'll get used to it.

Thanks for the moral support. Take care all.
 
vanthus

vanthus

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Can you get a screenshot of the resource monitor,like Gorman suggested,
this gives an average percentage of CPU consumption of each process,
and a better description.
You could also cut down the processes by stopping programs running on startup in system configuration by clearing the check boxes.I untick everything except antivirus program.
type msconfig in the Start Search box/select startup tab.
see if this improves things.
In my experience Bullguard was no resource hog.
 
vanthus

vanthus

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There's only 60 processes running,as shown in the last image,
but reducing this by stopping startup programs in system configuration as described in post 14 could well improve overall performance.It only takes one process to cause the problems your'e having.
 
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Corfate

Corfate

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A while ago i did have a problem with my CPU spiking to 100%, whilst idle.. Resource monitor told me it was Applemobiledeviceservice.exe using something like 44.15 according to Resource monitor.. Had to uninstall everything apple related, and reinstall Itunes. Works fine now (touch wood). Resource monitor is like.. Ace.

Anyway, enough of my story, glad you got it sorted! :)
 
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