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Which CPU for browsing

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I never did get why people have hundreds of tabs open. I have zero left open when done as I close the browser and I also turn of pc when not using it. I either use Google/DuckDuckGo or my favourites.
 
chaparral said:
I need to upgrade my CPU as just browsing the internet seems to use all it power :(
Which CPU would you recommend to upgrade from a i7-8700k from ?

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Browsing is CPU demanding, especially YouTube and Facebook.

I'd go for the following:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £705.47 (includes shipping: £10.50)​
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4K8KW10 said:
Browsing is CPU demanding, especially YouTube and Facebook.

I'd go for the following:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £705.47 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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That wouldn't help, the problem isn't with the processor and going from 32GB ram to 16GB definately won't help.
 
Websites and browsers can do funky things sometimes. A script that goes funny can consume 100% ram or CPU. I get issues very infrequently too.

I wouldn't be using edge to be fair. Firefox or if you really have too Chrome.
 
Something else wrong their fella.

I currently have 45 tabs and god knows how many extensions on an i5 laptop using Chrome with low CPU usage.

One of your tabs running a miner? Is this a recent occurrence?

With Chrome you can do shift+esc to see what is doing what in terms of usage.

Get a 3900X to fix, what a loon :D
 
Looks like I found the problem but not the fix yet
It seems to do this very high usage when it using the GPU 3D

See my picture in the first post for what I mean. Only some web pages trigger that GPU 3D thing
 
hyperseven said:
Something else wrong their fella.

I currently have 45 tabs and god knows how many extensions on an i5 laptop using Chrome with low CPU usage.
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Quartz said:
70 tabs is nothing. I have more than that open right now and Chrome is using 1.5% of my CPU.
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It doesn't use your CPU because you are not doing anything with those tabs - they are just open and idle.

Look at what happens to my threads when browsing a forum thread full of YouTube thumbnails:
(hint: it is SLOW): https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/recommend-me-some-trance.17903182/page-107

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4K8KW10 said:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £705.47 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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WOW, I've seen it all now.

Recommending a £700 upgrade from a perfectly fine/similar CPU to fix a non issue.

This forum has went crazy with the AMD love recently, basically suggesting it for any use case.
 
I have been recommending AMD CPU's to people lately and been happy to explain why AMD generally has better CPUs now....

But I have an old Sandy Bridge i3 rig that has no problem browsing with a bunch of tabs open. (Not 70, but a double-digit number of tabs is no problem.)

I can't Imagine that your CPU is the cause of your problem, even if it is an Intel. Lol.
 
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