Is this normal?

[Dominato3r]

Sitting on windows desktop and browsing anandtech and the likes.

I have taskmanager open and it reads

Core 1: 92%
Core 2: 89%
Core 3: 3%
Core 4: 2%

Q6600.

bought it a few days ago, no overclocking, no underclocking.

Any ideas what happening?

 

[BlueAcolyte]

Have you looked what process is using up your CPU?

 

[Dominato3r]

Nothing out of the norm. Itunes, FF, and MSN are the only programs running and the processes seem to be in order.

 

[dorion]

Process Explorer, gives you a better view of whats going on.

 

[Elias824]

Use process explorer, ive had a few issues before where I task manger couldnt see what was sucking up my CPU performance. It ended up being I/O interrupts according to process explorer and was easily fixed by reinstalling some drivers.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: Dominato3r
Nothing out of the norm. Itunes, FF, and MSN are the only programs running and the processes seem to be in order.

I think what BlueAcolyte was meaning to imply is "which process/program is registering as having a high level of CPU". That's the info that would help here.

 

[OverVolt]

When I first booted my system without any drivers, grabbing a window and moving it in circles really fast caused 100% cpu usage. Am I contributing yet?

Edit: Same pins, do it if ya bad.