Is this right?

[666_Pounder]

I'm still trying to diagnose whats wrong with my system at the moment (about a week ago my performance dropped down in nearly all games) and today I noticed that when I'm running TF2 I'm getting 100% usage on Core 0 about 35% on Core 1, 75 - 85% on Core 2 and about 30 - 40% on core 3. This is running at maximum settings @ 1900 x 1200 w/second monitor running steam and a few other windows like Coretemp and GPU Z.

The chip in question is a Q6600 @ 3.0Ghz, I doubt its temps because it doesn't go over 49c on Core 0.

The full system is -

Q6600 @ 3.0Ghz
Asus PK5 Mobo
Ati HD4870 1GB 770/900
4GB Kingston DDR2 @ 800Mhz
2x WD 250Gb HDDs

It also goes extremely high on Core 0 when I do something as simple as move a window from one monitor to the other.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

 

[lokhup]

hi,

Check task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Delete) to see what processes are eating up the resources and select end task.

What operating system are you running??

 

[Mattus]

It also goes extremely high on Core 0 when I do something as simple as move a window from one monitor to the other.

That would suggest that the CPU is doing the work the graphics card should be doing, which is probably also why your games are running badly.

Tried reinstalling graphics drivers and/or going back to a previous version?