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e6600 reguarly reaches 100% in Vista

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Hi All,

I have an E6600 in my PC and it seems to reguarly max to 100% on both cores in Vista, the other day I was burning a CD plus listening to music and it was constantly maxing to 100%, this shouldn't happen.

I used it under XP when I replaced my 4400 and wasn't that impressed either. However my old AMD 4400 x2 would never get anywhere near that.

I have what I would consider to be a high spec box so there is no obvious bottlenecks.

E6600 with Zalman 9700 fan.
4GB Geil 800 mhz DDR2 ram
2 * Sata 2 400GB hardware raid
gbit AW9D-Max motherboard
Soundblaster Fataly Pro gamer card
1950 XTX

Given that everyone says this processor is amazing I'm a lot more impressed with my old 4400X2

Any advice or suggestions or is this totally normal

P.s. this PC hasn't been overclocked at all at the moment.
 
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Vista is still very early days i'm sure there will be a lot more issues to come
every os is like this in the beginning.
 
My guess is your card has Fataly injured your system.


laughs to self :(


one of the things i read with vista threads is people bitching bout creative support, try to disable the card, sure you got the best drivers. what drivers for everything are you using.

the cpu should simply not be at 100% for no reason, its not a bad cpu, its some kinda process using the power. faulty drivers, software, temp monitoring app, malware, spyware, menswear.

the "vista's new, it will work itself out" is a stupid reply, if millions of vista users aren't reporting it(one here for ya) then its not a known issue that will work itself out.

first things first, when its at 100% for seemingly no reason, check task manager and see which process's are eating all the cycles.
 
It is not stupid to say that some drivers / software that is having
issues with vista is totally beyond the realms of possibility.And the fact that he say's it happens when he is multitasking it's not like he's saying it's there the whole time.My guess is it's driver/ software issue with vista.
or simply like xp using whatever version of nero and whatever music app he's using will be using 100% cpu.
And why should it not max out the cpu a lot of programs do that on xp
such as spybot.
 
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what antivirus are you using for vista ? if there anything to blame in your system drivers it would be creatives poor driver support for vista.
 
In task manager check what processes are taking up the processor usage, should help round it down whats causing the problem. There is a lot of reports of the Creative drivers causing 100% CPU usage when processing sounds so this may tie in with you playing MP3s when it happens.
 
Checked most of my processes and there are no processes running at 100%.

I use McAfee AV, I work for the company so it's free, we have dne lots of testing under Vista with no known issues at the mo.

The other day when it was saying 100% the system slowed down like I haven't seen for years.

May try uninstalling soundcard and AV and try again.
 
i have had the same problems at times running on Windows XP. It seems directly after boot the cpu gets locked in 100% on the WIndows review panel. Although after doing some simple test (resposiveness, PI etc) it seems it isnt. Somewhere there is a conflict between the CPU and Windows. Obviously this have carried over into Vista.!
 
Get Process Explorer and see what really is causing the problems. I was having CPU utilisation problems on a new C2D build, I only noticed when the G15 keyboard performance monitor plugin was showing about 40-50% CPU usage, but the taks manager showed the utilisation but no process that was eating all the cpu cycles.

Process Explorer showed that it was DPC (Deferred Procedure Calls) that was the culprit. Did some reading on the net and saw many complaints were from Nvidia 6800 owners, but didn't help me much as an ATI card has only ever been installed, but decided it was probably hardware/driver related. Sure enough, disabling my PCI wireless card cured the problem everytime. Luckily I have a Squeezebox 2 wireless on my desk, so I used the ethernet bridge built in to it and could uninstall the wireless card. Been flawless ever since.

Git it a go to see exactly was is causing the problem, so you are armed with more info for your searches.
 
Do a search on a poster called FatRakoon. He is adamant that Core2Duos are fine for running 2 threads, but anything more than 2 threads and he's equally adamant that a fast AMD is quicker. I have proof that a 4800X2 will beat an overclocked E6600 running 4 threads of folding at home, even allowing for different WUs over time. The X2 consistently folds faster than the Core2Duo. But give it 2 threads and the Core2 is back in the fight. As I say - check out FatRakoon.
 
Cool,cheers for the advice guys. I'm now on holiday in Aus. Will check it out on my return and let you know if I find the problem.

I'm sure it's a driver issue, I'm also not convinced by the core duo, I only uprgaded my AMD 4400x2 due to wanting to upgrade my memory to 4gb, as my old S939 motherboard wouldn't take ddr2 I decided to futureproof and upgrade rathing then continuing to buy DDR1 RAM that will obsolete itself faster.

I run a lot of VMware images hence why I require 4gb of memory. It's funny that my processor has now become the bottleneck. It drags my Vista score down to 5.2 instead of 5.6
 
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