PC Nerd(s) Required

[DualityNSNO]

Why do you have 2 AV's?

The 2 processes hogging the processor are for windows file indexing - is this on an SSD?

Also your RAM is detecting a gorillion faults a second - do you have a manual pagefile that it can't keep up with?

Malwarebytes + Windows Defender (which you keep up to date as you said) is fine if you know what you're doing; especially coming from the Limewire generation you should know how AV's work/don't work lol

As much as "indian microsoft techsupport" this will sound -> winkey + R -> "cmd" with admin privilege (ctrl + shift + enter is the shortcut) -> sfc /scannow

 

[john jako]

Hahaha using Norton in 2023, grow up Jimbo

This is the geekiest put down ever

 

[DualityNSNO]

Well I use a lot of streaming sites for the footie and movies but outside of that nothing dodgy.

Adblock, malwarebytes, windows defender and you're okay for those.

 

[DualityNSNO]

This is the geekiest put down ever

It's 100% true though.

 

[john jako]

Sum1 f some1 rar up with binary

 

[Nymzee]

Why do you have 2 AV's?

The 2 processes hogging the processor are for windows file indexing - is this on an SSD?

Also your RAM is detecting a gorillion faults a second - do you have a manual pagefile that it can't keep up with?

Malwarebytes + Windows Defender (which you keep up to date as you said) is fine if you know what you're doing; especially coming from the Limewire generation you should know how AV's work/don't work lol

As much as "indian microsoft techsupport" this will sound -> winkey + R -> "cmd" with admin privilege (ctrl + shift + enter is the shortcut) -> sfc /scannow

I literally wrote in the first line I'm not a PC nerd why you throwing terms like manual pagefile at me you dork lol

I have an SSD and normal drive, yeh.

I just want to know why it's pushed above the 70% limit I've set for it basically. If there's something in my PC boosting it for whatever reason I can turn it off.

 

[Connor]

Sum1 f some1 rar up with binary

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[DualityNSNO]

I literally wrote in the first line I'm not a PC nerd why you throwing terms like manual pagefile at me you dork lol

I have an SSD and normal drive, yeh.

I just want to know why it's pushed above the 70% limit I've set for it basically. If there's something in my PC boosting it for whatever reason I can turn it off.

Honestly sod that power saving and go for balanced if you're not using it and do it from there. Overly restrictive modes tend to be a bit iffy anyway.

Pagefile is what your RAM uses to index errors and faults and it seems it's working overtime so detecting a lot. Another thing I'd suggest you do, seeing as it's the indexing that's hogging it, is to defragment your drives as that usually does away with a bit of the indexing.

 

[DualityNSNO]

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[Nymzee]

Honestly sod that power saving and go for balanced if you're not using it and do it from there. Overly restrictive modes tend to be a bit iffy anyway.

Pagefile is what your RAM uses to index errors and faults and it seems it's working overtime so detecting a lot. Another thing I'd suggest you do, seeing as it's the indexing that's hogging it, is to defragment your drives as that usually does away with a bit of the indexing.

It doesn't matter what power mode I set, they all shove it to 100% even if I manually restrict, it's just baffling me as it worked one time but never again. Feel like it's just making my fans work more than they should really.

I actually degrag'd for the first time in about a year last week, expecting loads, absolutely nothing! I was shocked. Is there anything I can do to stop my RAM working overtime? Like a limiter?

 

[Rita_Poon]

Well I was always under the impression a CPU being at max capacity isn't really healthy for it? Especially if it's at 100% when I have nothing open.

They are made to run at a certain capacity. Its like building a bridge, it aint designed to carry just one car, they design it to carry ten say, then up that by double (so twenty) and put an 8 car limit on it. Theres a margin of safe use designed into it. This is where overclocking comes in, the real nerds out there can go into the bios and up the voltages through the chipset, that way they can pull more performance out of the cpu. Then they bench test it and post it online in some sort of personal member measurement contest. Forget the nerds, the important thing here is cooling, heat is the enemy and chips can burn out, so long as you have a clean heatsink (don't smoke around your computer, all that tar and whatnot finds its way to the fans) you'll be fine.
Multiple virus and malware checkers can trip over one another and find their competitor as a 'false positive', dump em!
Why so suddenly a keen interest in cpu usage? Are you eyeballing the leccy bill and wondering what to minimize?

 

[Nymzee]

They are made to run at a certain capacity. Its like building a bridge, it aint designed to carry just one car, they design it to carry ten say, then up that by double (so twenty) and put an 8 car limit on it. Theres a margin of safe use designed into it. This is where overclocking comes in, the real nerds out there can go into the bios and up the voltages through the chipset, that way they can pull more performance out of the cpu. Then they bench test it and post it online in some sort of personal member measurement contest. Forget the nerds, the important thing here is cooling, heat is the enemy and chips can burn out, so long as you have a clean heatsink (don't smoke around your computer, all that tar and whatnot finds its way to the fans) you'll be fine.
Multiple virus and malware checkers can trip over one another and find their competitor as a 'false positive', dump em!
Why so suddenly a keen interest in cpu usage? Are you eyeballing the leccy bill and wondering what to minimize?

Haha no, it was just I was on task manager last week closing some things and noticed it and thought eff that can't be good. Doesn't CPU at max make the fans work more? I canned air it like every few months, keep PC off the ground and don't smoke.

 

[Rita_Poon]

It doesn't matter what power mode I set, they all shove it to 100% even if I manually restrict, it's just baffling me as it worked one time but never again. Feel like it's just making my fans work more than they should really.

I actually degrag'd for the first time in about a year last week, expecting loads, absolutely nothing! I was shocked. Is there anything I can do to stop my RAM working overtime? Like a limiter?

Do not defrag your SSD, it doesn't work like a classic drive and harms em bad!

 

[DualityNSNO]

It doesn't matter what power mode I set, they all shove it to 100% even if I manually restrict, it's just baffling me as it worked one time but never again. Feel like it's just making my fans work more than they should really.

I actually degrag'd for the first time in about a year last week, expecting loads, absolutely nothing! I was shocked. Is there anything I can do to stop my RAM working overtime? Like a limiter?

sfc /scannow, let it run, and restart the machine.

Hard limiters like that are the devils work lol and you don't need them realistically; the RAM itself isn't working overtime, only the error correction - the problem is it's finding a lot of said errors, which is no doubt related to the fact that it's also finding errors lol

Have you tried to apply new thermal paste, as that also impacts performance?

 

[Rita_Poon]

Haha no, it was just I was on task manager last week closing some things and noticed it and thought eff that can't be good. Doesn't CPU at max make the fans work more? I canned air it like every few months, keep PC off the ground and don't smoke.

Would you turn astronaut speak off for this bit please...