Major Lag with everything, CPU also spiking

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Hello everyone,

About a week ago I noticed my PC started to lag randomly. I would just be browsing the web and opening a new tab would lag my PC. Heck just being idle my mouse would lag. Idle my CPU usage is about 14%. When I open a new tab for example it spikes to about 30% then slowly lowers. In Team Fortress 2 it goes to about 50%. I notice sometimes to my PC will really lag and it will spike up to 90% when I am just idle. Once it reached about 100% and I honestly could not do anything. I have the latest drivers for everything. Sometimes my PC will run fine for about an hour then this problem will happen again. I am forced to restart my computer to temporarily fix it. Dust is not a problem as I regularly clean it out. My specs are as follows:

I7-2600 CPU
16 GB of RAM
AMD Radeon 6870
1.5 TB HDD
250 GB SSD
Windows 7
Dell 0Y2MRG motherboard

Thank you for your time!

I don't know if this was the right section to post this, if it isn't could somebody move it
 
Solution
Might try cleaning up start-up items and general system clutter - oft times a clean install of Win will do wonders for a system doing things like this

Buzzbrad

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Ok I have disabled a lot of start up programs, I will see if it continues. I also ran CCleaner and deleted all the junk it picked up. Could it be my CPU or thermal paste?
 

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I reinstalled windows and the same problem is happening.
 

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