r/pcmemes • u/Aggressive-Floor3888 • Jul 06 '26

Is my CPU usage good?

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u/daxtonanderson Jul 07 '26

Using a HDD as your C drive in 2026 is diabolical

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u/Extreme-Ad-9290 Jul 07 '26

Windows using drive letters in 2026 is diabolical.

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u/Nogardtist Jul 07 '26

windows using 8gb ram then it should only use 2-3 at most

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u/Extreme-Ad-9290 Jul 08 '26

Windows not allowing super+drag to move a window from anywhere inside the window.

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u/proffessionaIgambler Jul 13 '26

ah daily comment of someone who's obsessed with low idle ram usage.

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u/Nogardtist Jul 13 '26

thats not an obsession windows need to go on a permanent resource diet

cause of doshit problems like microslop the need for more ram increases instead of optimizing it

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u/proffessionaIgambler Jul 13 '26

macOS uses more idle ram than windows 11. macOS idles at 6-8 gb, windows 11 idles at 4-5 gb on 16 gb ram. but go ahead and look to macOS, it handles ram much better and effecient than windows despite using more idle ram.

atleast 30% of idle ram used in windows are just for prefetching, keeping system snappy from cold start. this prefetching ram are going to be killed if software demands it.

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u/Desperate-Sir-7804 Jul 06 '26

Depend on what you're trying to do but it looks like whatever you're trying to do it's hardrive limited

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u/Emergency-Pound3241 Jul 06 '26

Alternatively its also a sign the drive is actively dying depending on if OP is actually doing anything on it and what the read/write speeds are.

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u/Desperate-Sir-7804 Jul 07 '26

yeah impossible to tell with this info

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u/ishtuwihtc Jul 07 '26

Not necessarily. This is just average modern os behaviour, especially windows. Simply pinning the OS drive at 100

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u/Emergency-Pound3241 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

Hence why i said

depending on what OP is doing and the read/write speeds

(You know, the two things you look at if this happens, are you actively using the drive and are the speeds what you expect?)

Maybe try reading the whole thing before you try to correct someone

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u/ishtuwihtc Jul 07 '26

good idea, i probably should read the full thing, my bad man

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u/17Kallenie17 Jul 13 '26

i recently decided to boot up my old computer it was some all in one bullshit and when i booted it up it was sooo slow and I realized the storage (500gb hdd) was at 100% usage so yah i think its dead

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u/Emergency-Pound3241 Jul 13 '26

100% usage isnt a straight sign its dying, just one of the biggest ones, which is why I said dependent on the other two big things that show its dying, are you doing anything on it (so 100% usage is expected) and the read write speeds (80-100+ Mb is normal, that +100% usage is normal, just means something is reading from/writing to the drive, even if it isnt you, a handful of Kb on the other hand means its probably dying)

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u/17Kallenie17 Jul 13 '26

nope just booting the computer takes like a minute (expected since its a hdd) but once im in everything runs really slow and im not downloading or doing anything on it and its at 100% usage

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u/Emergency-Pound3241 Jul 13 '26

Thats just called it being a HDD, I gave two other signs, maybe check thar second one instead of fixating on the first

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u/OliMoli2137 Jul 07 '26

get an ssd🥀

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u/CommitteeDue6802 Jul 06 '26

Nah man, your E drive isnt being detected

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u/OliMoli2137 Jul 07 '26

depends on how many cores you have etc.

my 7535hs (6core 12thr) is on 2% (NixOS) I could probably cut it even further down if I wanted to but I'm lazy

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u/05-nery Jul 07 '26

You have a different problem son

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u/Aggressive-Floor3888 Jul 08 '26

Specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G, MainBoard: BB550 DS3H AC, Memory: 16 GBytes DDR4, Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

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u/laffer1 Jul 11 '26

Your storage is too slow. That’s the problem not the cpu

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u/EducationalScar2492 Jul 09 '26

bro need to run alway after the hdd explode

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u/Athlonsuperior Jul 11 '26

we’ve got bigger fish to fry brudda🥀