Cpu using 80% when watching youtube video

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hello everyone i have seen lately that my cpu been using 80% of the performance for youtube 1080p video
my cpu is i7 6700 3.4 ghz
browser : chrome
ram 16gb
video card: gtx 1060 6gb
do u guys have a suggestion or idea what is wrong ?
 
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spdragoo
Just to make sure it's not Chrome, try watching the same videos in a different browser (Edge, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc.). If your CPU usage doesn't spike as much, the problem is Chrome.

If it does still spike, try watching at a lower resolution. Video watching isn't like gameplay; the integrated graphics on your CPU might struggle with most games, but has no trouble putting out a steady 1080p/60Hz video signal (pre-recorded or live streaming), because it's not having to render it. However, the bandwidth is much greater on a 1080p video than for a 720p (over twice as much), let alone a 480p (5 times)...& processing that bandwidth is handled by the CPU.

Again, if dropping down to a lower resolution drops your CPU...
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hello sorry for late respond when i was watching a 30 min video 1080p it was constant 80% when i switched sites go on facebook and leave the video go on the cpu would go to 12 % when i would switch to youtube to look at the video would go up to 80%
 
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Just to make sure it's not Chrome, try watching the same videos in a different browser (Edge, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc.). If your CPU usage doesn't spike as much, the problem is Chrome.

If it does still spike, try watching at a lower resolution. Video watching isn't like gameplay; the integrated graphics on your CPU might struggle with most games, but has no trouble putting out a steady 1080p/60Hz video signal (pre-recorded or live streaming), because it's not having to render it. However, the bandwidth is much greater on a 1080p video than for a 720p (over twice as much), let alone a 480p (5 times)...& processing that bandwidth is handled by the CPU.

Again, if dropping down to a lower resolution drops your CPU utilization, then your PC is working fine, it's just having to process a lot more data for the YouTube videos than it does for web surfing.

If dropping the resolution still doesn't fix the problem, there might be something else going on. But try these steps first.
 
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kryeziuarmendi

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hello spdragoo
sorry for late reply
i have tried firefox and firefox was doing all good what i did is i got chrome i cleared all the cookies
and chached files
so then it was working all fine so i think it was all about cleaning chrome
so i will select u as the solution because u were the nearest solution
thank you :D
 
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