CPU almost idling when opening up programs and games, why?

Rafael Mestdag · Aug 30, 2016

Why does my CPU(FX6300) practically idles while opening a program/game? Is this normal?

My Rig:

Windows 10
FX6300
8GB RAM DDR3
1TB Seagate 7200rpm + 320GB Seagate 7200rpm
Gi gabyte 78LMT-USB3 motherboard
Onboard ATI Radeon HD 3000 video
500W PSU

Supahos · Aug 30, 2016

Define practically idling, and are you talking long loads or like opening chrome? Ps: use something that shows max clockspeed when monitoring if loading a game and alt tabbing out usage and speed can fall to idle as load as removed

USAFRet · Aug 30, 2016

Because modern CPU's are ridiculously efficient at doing mundane tasks?

Rafael Mestdag · Aug 30, 2016

Supahos :

I'm referring to opening Chrome and Firefox or anything else, for as long as I can watch the cpu gadget it never seems to go over 10% usage.

Supahos · Aug 30, 2016

Oh then yeah a modern cpu falls asleep doing stuff like that. A Intel Celeron can do that at 5% usage just as fast

Rafael Mestdag · Aug 30, 2016

Supahos :

But there's at least one game which when I run it, it takes a while to get to the main screen from the splash screen on the desktop, and meanwhile the cpu still seems to be 'asleep'. It's like the HDD is doing all the work until I start actually playing the game I suppose.

Supahos · Aug 30, 2016

Thats because hard drives are slower than processors. Nothing unusual happening so long as the usage goes up when in the game

Rafael Mestdag · Aug 30, 2016

Supahos :

By the way, I checked both boxes on the Directives tab on my dsks in the Device Manager menu(Cache Flushing stuff) in order to make my HDD's faster. How risky is it that a power cut could wipe out my data? What else could happen?
Does a line filter protect my disks against a power outtage?

nukemaster · Aug 30, 2016

What you describe sounds normal. Many games when being loaded are not that demanding. They should be more demanding when you are into the game.

As for your web browser. Many of them run mostly on a single core. The Windows task manager shows a percentage of ALL cores so loading a single core on a 6 core(3 module with 2 threads per module) will only show up as about 16%. This may look like idling, but it may well be pushing that core near full utilization.

Here is Firefox loading 10 tabs on at the same time. It mostly uses one core.

Power outs would generally effect data that was in use. Power filters do NOT help with power outages. UPS units do.

Rafael Mestdag · Aug 31, 2016

nukemaster :

You mean for example, that if I were using Chrome and had a couple of movies paused and was playing a game, those would be affected by the power out? The rest would be theoretically safe?

Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163 · Aug 31, 2016

The CPU load you see is probably even because youre moving the mouse. The FX CPUs get bottlenecked by a gaming mouse running at 1000 Hz for instance while youre in a game. Like they said, nothing unusual here.

All the best!

nukemaster · Aug 31, 2016

Rafael Mestdag :

Chrome and the game are unlikely to be effected unless they are in the middle of an update. Streamed videos will be gone(even if they did not get corrupt). Games are mostly read loads. Since they already are on the drive and not being modified, no harm generally comes to them(worst case you could mess up a save game).

That buffer on the drive simply holds data before it is written to the drive. Since the buffer is faster than the drive. it can help when you have lots of small writes. The drive will soon after move that data to the drive it self.

Corruption is rare, but can happen.

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