high cpu usage for no reason

[The Chicagoan]

So I am using this laptop, the only major thing I've done with it was format the hard drive and reinstall Windows 10 pro via iso... So why am I suddenly getting 35-50 percent cpu usage? On average it stays in the 30s when nothing is open. When Microsoft edge is open it uses 70-99 percent of my CPU. How can I fix this?

A4 5000 APU 1.5 GHz
8GB DDR3 RAM 1866 MHz
Radeon HD 8330

[Omega]

It's a VERY weak and aging APU. That is why. Modern $60 dual core CPUs have nearly 3x as much processing power.

Make sure the browser is running with GPU acceleration enabled to take the load of the CPU. And run an adblock to get rid of tons of resource hogging bloat.


I myself wouldn't run Windows 10 on this machine, it's too weak for it.

[The Chicagoan]

Originally posted by Omega:

It's a VERY weak and aging APU. That is why. Modern $60 dual core CPUs have nearly 3x as much processing power.

Make sure the browser is running with GPU acceleration enabled to take the load of the CPU. And run an adblock to get rid of tons of resource hogging bloat.


I myself wouldn't run Windows 10 on this machine, it's too weak for it.

It did come with Windows 8 when I bought it back in 2013, but I got the free upgrade for Windows 10 in 2015. So I took that opportunity. It still runs great though in Windows, it's not lagging or anything. But I'm just using this laptop as an old gaming machine. It runs old games actually really well.

[techhead51]

I run win10 pro on a hp g7 laptop.
I upgraded the cpu to a 3500m it runs at 700 mhz to 2.4 ghz, 8 gig of ddr3, wd
1tb hard drive and idt ( hp supplied) analog sound.
It also has amd hdmi video and audio.
I can not play high end games on the system, but I have played just cause 2 on it
with win10 and win7 with no issues.
Windows will use the oem base freq. as the value even though it can go lower or higher.
As far as cpu high idle, win10 has a lot of background tasks rubbing 24-7 unless the system is tweaked, the store, windows updates, scheduled maintenance, hard drive defragmentation, antivirus updates and scans and more can slow down the system or cause issues.
There are ways to "fix" some of these things but it includes having the pro version of win10 or registry hacks.

[The Chicagoan]

Originally posted by techhead51:

I run win10 pro on a hp g7 laptop.
I upgraded the cpu to a 3500m it runs at 700 mhz to 2.4 ghz, 8 gig of ddr3, wd
1tb hard drive and idt ( hp supplied) analog sound.
It also has amd hdmi video and audio.
I can not play high end games on the system, but I have played just cause 2 on it
with win10 and win7 with no issues.
Windows will use the oem base freq. as the value even though it can go lower or higher.
As far as cpu high idle, win10 has a lot of background tasks rubbing 24-7 unless the system is tweaked, the store, windows updates, scheduled maintenance, hard drive defragmentation, antivirus updates and scans and more can slow down the system or cause issues.
There are ways to "fix" some of these things but it includes having the pro version of win10 or registry hacks.

Well luckily I downloaded the pro version of Windows.