CPUs both at 100% - Time for new CPU?

[1Strive]

Here is the problem. Last year when I got this AMD Dual Core X2 3800+ CPU it was the shiznit. All my apps and games ran faster than ever and everything went smooth.

Now my CPUs sit at 75 to 100% during games like Company of Heroes, Sup Com, RB 6 Vegas and so on. This happens in XP and Vista. And in Vista my second CPU sits at 45% at all times due to vista being a CPU hog.

I have 2GBs of RAM Dual Channel (1GBx2) When running Sup Com the other day the game crashed and said out of memory.

I think it is time to reload Windows. Not get new hardware. But please, ring in about what you thinkb could be causing the 100% usage (when just a year ago there was no problem).

Thanks,
1STRIVE

[Darknova]

One thing you might want to try is turning off Automatic Updates, for some reason it takes up 100% now a days when running.

[1Strive]

Auto Up is OFF in XP. So that ain't it. But thanks anyway.

Also what is the best Socket 939 CPU? Performance Wise.

[trt740]

Opteron 185 or FX60 (same thing reallly) for stock performance for overclocking passed 185 / FX 60 speeds Opteron 170.

[zekrahminator]

I know this sounds foolish, but uninstall sound drivers, and see if you still have CPU hog problems. My CPU use was constantly at 100% in the Vista beta. I reinstalled Creative Soundblaster drivers, and suddenly Vista sounded good and was quite usable.

And if you're done with that 3800, I'd be glad to take it off your hands :roll:.

[Chewy]

humm thats weird man I just got Vista on my system 32bit one and it uses 0-1% cpu idle.. msn and this page open in IE7.

I had COH crash a few times on me.. not sure why my video card bios OC is very stable and not even sweating my card at all. onwell :P I hope it sorts itself out and dont crash no more lol... its been good lately but I did have a crash the other night in COH.

Edit: im not sure about my second cpu.. I just used task bar manager to see what my cpu usage was at.

[Echelon]

try going through and disabling a lot of unused services (like windows zero config if you on wired connection, windows security center, and so on). also disable all non-ms services and start up items to see if it happens then (do that through start>run>msconfig). clear the windows prefetch (c:\windows\prefetch). use ccleaner (www.ccleaner.com) and clear out all temp files and clear the registry. try atf cleaner as well (just do a google search). run anti-spyware programs (a squared, spybot, ad-aware, super anti-spyware, avg anti-spyware will do). also check out whats going on in the system in the background, use the sysinternals tools (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Processesandthreadsutilities.mspx) and download the process explorer, autoruns and process monitor. try some of these things, or all these things. oh and also some good old hijackthis (www.hijackthis.de).