e6600 reguarly reaches 100% in Vista

[sw1]

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.

 

[sw1]

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.

 

[sw1]

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