GPU usage spiking while doing nothing/idle?

dogs

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May 11, 2014
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Hello, I have a Diamond HD Radeon 7970 and for about 2 days, the GPU usage is spiking randomly. It used to be a bit worse as MSI Afterburner showed it going from 0% to about 89%.

However it's still going from 0% to about %15. It's really worrying me. I already reinstalled the AMD Catalyst drivers.

One thing to note is that I did try mining litecoin and dogecoin however I did not really like it and deleted everything. In total I'd say it was 2-3 hours of mining in both low and high usage. Thanks.

Update: Right now it was spiking from 0%-70% then started 0%-90% and the card made a funny noise. :(