100% CPU USAGE

Lusvic_

I just recently upgraded my graphics card, power supply and CPU cooler 

My specs I had were

CORSAIR Vengeance RGB PRO 32GB

B450 Tomahawk Mobo

AMD Ryzen 5 3600

NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2060 SUPER

CORSAIR RMx Series RM550

CORSAIR Hydro Series H60 AIO Liquid CPU 

Now I have 

CORSAIR Vengeance RGB PRO 32GB

B450 Tomahawk Mobo

AMD Ryzen 5 3600

NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX Gigabyte 3070 OC

Thermaltake 700W 80 Plus

CORSAIR H115i RGB Platinum AIO liquid CPU cooler 

Now every single time I play a game it’s not performing as it should. I’m running lower FPS, but when I looked into it everytime I play a game my CPU usage sky rockets, and goes to 95% or a constant 100%. I don’t know the issues is it the cpu? If so I was gonna get a Ryzen 7 3800XT. 

TSTDavey

Hello @Lusvic_ thanks for posting on the Microcenter Community Forum. What games are you playing? Have you updated your chipset b450 motherboard drivers and your 3070 GPU drivers? If not try updating the chipset drivers, see the link below for the motherboard. You can also attempt to update the 3070 gpu drivers from device manager. See link below for that. Also make sure your power options are set to High Performance, link below. Try these 3 things if they have not already been done. Check CPU usage afterwards. If still getting 100% usage, reply to this post with your Task Manager picture so we can take a look.

Link: Chipset Driver for b450 Tomahawk (Click on Driver and look under System & Chipset Driver)
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/B450-TOMAHAWK 

 Link: Update gpu drivers (Look under Display Adapters)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/update-drivers-in-windows-10-ec62f46c-ff14-c91d-eead-d7126dc1f7b6 

Link: Change Power Options to High Performance
https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/v85131538 

Lusvic_

TSTDavey said:

Hello @Lusvic_ thanks for posting on the Microcenter Community Forum. What games are you playing? Have you updated your chipset b450 motherboard drivers and your 3070 GPU drivers? If not try updating the chipset drivers, see the link below for the motherboard. You can also attempt to update the 3070 gpu drivers from device manager. See link below for that. Also make sure your power options are set to High Performance, link below. Try these 3 things if they have not already been done. Check CPU usage afterwards. If still getting 100% usage, reply to this post with your Task Manager picture so we can take a look.

Link: Chipset Driver for b450 Tomahawk (Click on Driver and look under System & Chipset Driver)
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/B450-TOMAHAWK 

 Link: Update gpu drivers (Look under Display Adapters)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/update-drivers-in-windows-10-ec62f46c-ff14-c91d-eead-d7126dc1f7b6 

Link: Change Power Options to High Performance
https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/v85131538 

I updated my GPU drivers already and why would I need to update the chipset? The CPU never changed and the motherboard never changed ? Does it have to do anything with the graphics card ? 

TSTDavey

@Lusvic_ your graphic card changed from what the motherboard was supporting previously. The Chipset helps your motherboard communicate with your hardware. Your 3070 is a new hardware component to your motherboard.

Lusvic_

TSTDavey said:

@Lusvic_ your graphic card changed from what the motherboard was supporting previously. The Chipset helps your motherboard communicate with your hardware. Your 3070 is a new hardware component to your motherboard.

Okay I will try it and let you know how it goes 

Lusvic_

Lusvic_ said:

TSTDavey said:

@Lusvic_ your graphic card changed from what the motherboard was supporting previously. The Chipset helps your motherboard communicate with your hardware. Your 3070 is a new hardware component to your motherboard.

Okay I will try it and let you know how it goes 

The BIOS update didn’t work and neither did anything else it’s still at 100% while playing a game here is proof 

Lusvic_

Lusvic_ said:

Lusvic_ said:

TSTDavey said:

@Lusvic_ your graphic card changed from what the motherboard was supporting previously. The Chipset helps your motherboard communicate with your hardware. Your 3070 is a new hardware component to your motherboard.

Okay I will try it and let you know how it goes 

The BIOS update didn’t work and neither did anything else it’s still at 100% while playing a game here is proof 

I’m thinking of getting the ryzen 7 3800XT rn I have the ryzen 5 3600 so I was gonna do that this weekend

Ian

Greetings. What's your GPU usage while playing? This happens in every game you try? 

Lusvic_

Ian said:

Greetings. What's your GPU usage while playing? This happens in every game you try? 

Yes it does and when I’m playing a game I run at 30% GPU Usage 

Ian

Lusvic_ said:

Ian said:

Greetings. What's your GPU usage while playing? This happens in every game you try? 

Yes it does and when I’m playing a game I run at 30% GPU Usage 

Try a clean install of your video card drivers to see if this helps. We have a step by step guide for this here on our community found at: https://community.microcenter.com/discussion/2858/how-to-roll-back-or-clean-install-video-card-drivers-in-windows-10#latest It is the 2nd post in this thread that you'd want to try.