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Memory and CPU spikes causing slow PC.

Anonymous
2020-03-18T16:28:19+00:00

I purchased a pre-built PC in December that has been running seemingly well for the past few months, however, every-so-often I will get huge lag and stutter while playing both online and offline games, even when only navigating chrome or discord, and when I check task manager my CPU or Memory usage will be at around 97-100%.

The usual suspects at the top of the list are the service host tasks and I'm unsure on what to do to fix this. I have ran memory diagnostics, my windows is completely up to date, everything is disabled on start-up and I avoid running lots of applications at a time. Most of the time a simple restart will help but a few hours later my PC is back to being painfully slow.

Here is a screencap of my Task Manager after I rebooted just a few minutes ago.

Here is a screencap of my system information.

I am new to the whole PC game and greatly appreciate any and all help and advice!

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-03-18T16:36:53+00:00

    Hello, 

    Here is a screencap of the resource monitor, it doesn't seem to me like system interrupts are doing much.

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  3. Igor Leyko 110.6K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2020-03-18T16:55:48+00:00

    The problem may be either in Discord or in network drivers. Please reinstall them.

    Do you have any third-party antivirus tools network security tools and soon?

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  4. Igor Leyko 110.6K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2020-03-18T16:31:36+00:00

    Hi,

    please run resmon tool, gor to CPU tab and check if system interrupts take noticeable part of CPU usage.

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