Either way I'm confused as I'd imagine a 3.2ghz dual core processor should atleast be able to handle regular browsing and such without being pushed to its absolute limits shouldn't it? Could it be that my motherboard simply can't support any reasonable speeds?
Sometimes discord can spike up to 60%, other times a windows process will push it up, sometimes its a combination of multiple things. In addition, what's running up my usage fluxuates all the time, it isnt any one thing it seems. Not only that but I'm noticing that my CPU is hovering around 70-100% even with little load on it (maybe 4-5 firefox tabs, discord and steam minimized in the background). I concluded that the Core 2 Duo 2.13Ghz processor I was running simply wasn't cutting it so I ordered a used Pentium D 940, running at 3.20 Ghz with a 4MB cache from ebay (one of the best my old motherboard can support), dropped it in yesterday only to have nearly the exact same issues. Through task manager I can see that my CPU usage is always running at 99-100% with a game open.
Anyways after getting everything fairly well in order I've been attempting to play some fairly low impact games (dungeon defenders 2, Alien swarm, Modern warfare 2) and have been barely able to run them, even on close to the lowest settings and resolutions.
My old budget gaming laptop's motherboard quit on me a few weeks ago and I've had to put together a desktop from old parts from my basement a friends old build. Greetings, so I have a rather long and boring story on how I ended up in this situation, but long story short, I'm running off primarily 11 year old parts and trying to gradually frankenstein the thing into something functional.
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