High CPU usage whilst browsing

Yonathan

Junior Member
Oct 16, 2008
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My system
E8400
Asus P5Q (1306 BIOS)
G. Skill 2x2GB DDR2 800MHz
Western Digital 640GB (WD6400AAKS)
HD4870
Running XP-32bit

I recently built the above system and I'm having an issue whilst scrolling webpages. If I move up and down my CPU usage holds at around 50% and it feels very laggy. Another example of this problem occuring is when moving the cutomisable boxes on the BBC homepage. This happens on whatever browser (Opera/IE/Firefox) I use. I also find it happening when move windows (eg. Steam windows) across the screen.

I found a way to enable AHCI but the issue was still present. I tried a fresh install of XP and I'm still getting the same issue.

EDIT: I just noticed when moving any of the volume sliders on the Realtec onboard sound software (Realtek HD Audio Manager), my CPU usages goes up to 15-20%.

Any ideas as to what it could be?
 

Atheus

Diamond Member
Jun 7, 2005
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Did you use all the latest drivers and a clean Windows install when you built that? Specifically video drivers.