NT Kernal & System running 15 to 20 % CPU

rob1122

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Jun 2, 2014
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i recently bought a motherboard and a processor and re installed windows 7 and my computer is running pretty slow. i open task manager and under my resource monitor is says that NT Kernal & System is running 17 percent average. have looked up several threads but no luck i cannot seem to fix it. i have checked my drivers and they are up to date. scanned for viruses and nothing. any help would be much appreciated

amd fx(tm)-6300 six core processor
gigabyte am3+ GA-970A-D3P (motherboard)