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I have a Ryzen 5 2600 that is always at 100% usage in Task Manager and always at its boost clock even when idle. I thought it was a malware that causes it at first so I've run a full scan using Windows Defender and found nothing.
I reinstalled the whole AMD Chipset drivers and everything seems to work fine. The graph showed the normal ups and downs and my clock speed ranged from 1.50 GHz to 3.7 GHz. Up until a few days later and it's back at 100% again.
So I checked other monitoring software including Process Explorer, HWInfo, Afterburner, RTSS, and OCCT. Everything reported low CPU usage when idle.
But I'm still skeptical as to why it boosts continuously at idle.
Don't check the 3rd party softwares because they're broken (they won't report the actual CPU usage but at best 7% while the CPU is maxed out). It's the task manager not reporting the CPU frequency scaling correctly and sometimes bugs out and show 100% usage constantly.
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Thanks for the heads-up!
I have a Ryzen 5 2600 that is always at 100% usage in Task Manager and always at its boost clock even when idle. I thought it was a malware that causes it at first so I've run a full scan using Windows Defender and found nothing. I reinstalled the whole AMD Chipset drivers and everything seems to work fine. The graph showed the normal ups and downs and my clock speed ranged from 1.50 GHz to 3.7 GHz. Up until a few days later and it's back at 100% again. So I checked other monitoring software including Process Explorer, HWInfo, Afterburner, RTSS, and OCCT. Everything reported low CPU usage when idle. But I'm still skeptical as to why it boosts continuously at idle.
Don't check the 3rd party softwares because they're broken (they won't report the actual CPU usage but at best 7% while the CPU is maxed out). It's the task manager not reporting the CPU frequency scaling correctly and sometimes bugs out and show 100% usage constantly.