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High CPU

Discussion in 'Computers & Modding' started by yoshi2889, Feb 22, 2010.

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  1. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    Hi!

    On this laptop from my mom, I get the CPU up to 50%.
    Same with scrolling.

    Even the mouse moves are 9% CPU!

    Lets discuss CPU highness... :p
     
    yoshi2889, Feb 22, 2010
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  2. timmy1991

    timmy1991 Well-Known Member

    My cpu ususally Idles at about 4%, but just moving the mouse has shot it up to near 50% before
     
    timmy1991, Feb 22, 2010
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  3. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    Going wild with the mouse gets this to around 45 sometimes...
     
    yoshi2889, Feb 23, 2010
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  4. sinharvest24

    sinharvest24 Guest

    Defrag...
     
    sinharvest24, Feb 23, 2010
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  5. stirgo1212

    stirgo1212 Well-Known Member

    Exactly
     
    stirgo1212, Mar 1, 2010
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  6. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    This PC gets itself to 100% with just browsing RomU. I don't care, it works good.
     
    yoshi2889, Mar 3, 2010
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  7. stirgo1212

    stirgo1212 Well-Known Member

    stirgo1212, Mar 3, 2010
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  8. tehuber1337

    tehuber1337 Well-Known Member

    Defragmentation doesn't magically speed up computers.
     
    tehuber1337, Mar 3, 2010
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  9. stirgo1212

    stirgo1212 Well-Known Member

    But it does improve the overall performance of the CPU and it can extend the life of it if you do it regularly.
     
    stirgo1212, Mar 3, 2010
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  10. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    yoshi2889, Mar 3, 2010
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  11. tehuber1337

    tehuber1337 Well-Known Member

    Hint: bold is a link that you should click
     
    tehuber1337, Mar 3, 2010
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  12. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    Sure. Good hint ;)
     
    yoshi2889, Mar 3, 2010
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  13. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    This thread is so amazingly full of fail.

    Defrag to improve CPU? Sorry, but you guys should not be in here giving advice. Your hard drive consists of sectors, your hard drive will place your data in the spaces where there's room. When you delete files you make room for new files and your hard drive will use those sectors. With a lot of use your files will be spread out a lot and your large files will get segmented. This means your hard drive will have to do a lot of seeking to read files.

    Seeking is slow. When your hard drive is seeking your CPU is essentially just waiting and doing nothing, so defragging can make your computer seem faster. But only because your CPU doesn't have to wait for the hard drive as much. All defragging does is make the files sequential so the amount of seeking is reduced.

    It is also largely a left over from the windows 98 days. XP and especially Windows 7 are both decent at preventing fragmentation. After a full year of use my desktop which has a lot of large files on it was only 4% fragmented, which is hardly worth even defragging for.
     
    Seph, Mar 3, 2010
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  14. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    high CPU usage means you have too many processes running or something is sucking a lot of CPU cycles. malware can cause it
     
    Loonylion, Mar 3, 2010
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  15. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    This PC is extremely old. My dad said he had problems before (when I was 5 or something), but he didn't download untrusted things (he only used this PC to use games, like America's Army).

    I'm exactly the other type:
    I do not tell my dad this PC has problems with the desktop's background (fixed by now, but I have the feeling it soon returns),
    I download everything that interests me (mostly from RomU).
    But you can be right.


    EDIT: I have 32 processes running (mostly all things that Windows needs, RocketDock, Fences (desktop sorting) and Opera (my browser).



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    At some points, I absolutely agree :-\
     
    yoshi2889, Mar 3, 2010
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  16. sinharvest24

    sinharvest24 Guest

    i'm sorry if i didn't help at all.....

    but you really should get a new pc :p
     
    sinharvest24, Mar 3, 2010
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  17. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    I like this one :p it works, that is the most important of all.
     
    yoshi2889, Mar 3, 2010
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  18. stirgo1212

    stirgo1212 Well-Known Member

    Yeh, i saw a guy saying insults at seph, i thought 'should i notify him that hes gonna get banned? ' I just thought 'nah'
     
    stirgo1212, Mar 3, 2010
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  19. Omega_2

    Omega_2 Strings Cat

    good call.
    he/she/it even came on irc posing as Moderasian to complain. Seph sent 'em packing, though.
    The forum doesn't need that type of person, going around, flaming others so blatantly.
     
    Omega_2, Mar 3, 2010
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  20. stirgo1212

    stirgo1212 Well-Known Member

    trollz are a reality, be cautious
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    this is kinda getting of topic

    How did we get from a processor to trolling? lolz
     
    stirgo1212, Mar 3, 2010
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