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CPU usage 100 in Windows 11
Hello everyone, recently I was casually checking my task manager and I saw my CPU (AMD Ryzen 5 5600) usage was at 100 for no apparent reason. the highest resource consuming app was the task manager itself. so to double check, I checked MSI Afterburner, and the usage was normal. I don't see any change in performance or anything, all my apps work smoothly (no heating issues either). Even at the time of writing this, its at 100%. Is it just my task manager being weird or there's some big problem?
Here is a screenshot of both of the apps running together:-
I am seeing the same issue too. I'm using AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (6-core processor).
I see that in task manager, my CPU is reported to utilize for 100% for several hours.
And checking MSI Afterburner, it was reported only at around 10%. My CPU temp is reported by MSI afterburner to be around 65 Celsius. The highest usage reported seems to be Citrix HDX engine at around 25% and Task manager 20%. Why the discrepancy reported by Task Manager vs MSI Afterburner is the question. I noticed this happened like more than a month ago. My desktop also runs normally.
- same issue with me but when your connected to internet its not using 100% of cpu. its problem in window 11 i guess
try to turn off STORAGE BOOST in msi dragon center
- Looks like you're on MSI laptop and the MSI Afterburner is like a tune-up utility from MSI. For better assistance, I recommend you to check with MSI support on this issue.
- Hello. Thanks for the reply but I don't think that MSI support is gonna help me in any way cause afterburner is showing the actual statistics, it's the Task manager which is being weird. 😕
Yea and also, i don't have an MSI laptop, It's a custom PC build.- Your cpu may be running in only 1 core
