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January 1st, 2020 17:00
Aurora R8, core i7-9700 CPU, usage high
I recently purchased an Aurora R8 with a core i7 9700, non K sku. 32 gigs of ram with a RTX 2070. At all times, windows explorer is using 20+ percent of the CPU and at least 25% of my ram. I called Technical support and they said these are acceptable numbers and there is nothing wrong with my system. Now I'm not a computer genius by any stretch of the imagination but my old system that had a core i7 2600 used 4% at idle running the same version and build of windows. Any ideas on whats causing windows explorer to take up so much CPU and Ram?
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GTS81
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January 1st, 2020 18:00
Probably a question for @Tesla1856 and @speedstep. If you loaded up AWCC and bumped the power settings down to balanced, does the utilization still stay at that level?
Another thing to consider is how Win10 chooses to optimize its performance based on your system. Your previous system was a second generation Core (Westmere?) and you’re basically going from probably 2C/4T to 8C/8T while changing also the platform a few generations ahead with a massive leap in memory. Based on page file management alone, you would be seeing an increase in how Win10 manages the memory hierarchy.
It’s anyone guess but if you’re worried about bloatware/ viruses, maybe a clean format and reinstall of Win10?
Ritalin45
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January 1st, 2020 18:00
The system was set to Balanced in AWCC, so I changed it to High Performance and then back to Balanced and the CPU usage is now down. But my RAM usage when up to 30% at idle and and according to the graph on the windows task manager performance tab, its flat lined at 30% exactly at
GTS81
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January 1st, 2020 19:00
Suspecting a disk caching mechanism at work here (ramdisk?) but need the other more knowledgeable community members to comment.
r72019
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January 1st, 2020 20:00
Did you try restarting? Which program does task manager say is using up all your RAM?
If no program is listed, and the RAM is instead all going to the non-paged pool, then FYI that the Killer network card is known to cause memory leaks, so if you have a leak I'd suggest you start with focusing on that and updating that driver, etc.