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Sujyot
Copper Contributor
Jan 19, 2023

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 i...
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KapilArya
MVP
Jan 20, 2023
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.
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    Sujyot
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 21, 2023
    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.
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      edisahiti
      Copper Contributor
      Feb 04, 2023
      Your cpu may be running in only 1 core
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        Sujyot
        Copper Contributor
        Feb 07, 2023
        No? You can clearly see in the screenshot that all of the cores of my cpu are being used (the graph of cpu 12 usage). and i dont think you can run games like forza horizon 5 on the max settings on one core without any problem.

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