Hey guys, I run Windows 7 on a Lenovo Thinkpad edge e540, CPU is an AMD A6-5350M APU, 2.9 GHz, with Radeon HD graphics card. Lately my CPU has been maxing out while watching videos and running multiple tasks. It also becomes very warm and everything is noticeably glitchy. This has happened over a variety of networks and browsers so I'm assuming the issue is with hardware. The computer is about 2 years old and has never been cleaned or opened aside from installing an additional 4gb RAM, which is useless if the CPU can't keep up. This is especially annoying because I use virtual machines frequently which tend to max the CPU pretty quickly, and haven't in the past.
From the research I've done, I'm reasonably concluding that the issue is with my hardware or OS and not specific to any specific application. It looks like the most likely culprits are dirty internals or something with my graphics card, but I wanted to get some input before getting too deep into anything, or buying new parts. Thanks for the help guys, it's truly appreciated.
From the research I've done, I'm reasonably concluding that the issue is with my hardware or OS and not specific to any specific application. It looks like the most likely culprits are dirty internals or something with my graphics card, but I wanted to get some input before getting too deep into anything, or buying new parts. Thanks for the help guys, it's truly appreciated.
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