CPU Problems

[TheCuckoo]

I'm having an odd problem. My CPU has gone from reading around 260 in game lobby, to reading about 462. This happened before, then we had a patch and everything went back to normal. Now it is playing up again and I can't think what is causing the problem.

I'm not running any extra programs in the background, and the taskmanager says I'm only using 3% of my CPU, I have noticed it briefly spikes up to 17%, I don't know if this is unusual or not.

I thought maybe it was just giving an odd reading, but when I tried to play a game everyone started complaining that I was slowing the game down. I've not changed anything between when it was working find and when it stopped, and when it went back to working fine again. I've updated every driver I can think of and nothing has had any effect. I've tried affiliating two cores of my CPU, but that just made things considerably worse.

I'm out of ideas, can anyone suggest anything? Thanks in advance for your help.

[da_monstr]

Make sure you haven't tabbed out of the game lobby when running the benchmark, that makes the score automatically bad. Rerun it while you're in FA.
Though I assume you already know that, but that's all I can think of.

[TheCuckoo]

Thank you, yes I have indeed made sure of that. I never alt-tab from lobby anyway. I have run the CPU test several times while in lobby, and it always returns the same bad score.

[VoiceofReason]

Just for reference, what CPU do you have and at what speed?
(Other ideas for what could be hindering your performance, speed-step and other power saving measures windows implements may be the culprit; check your power settings)

[ZOB]

Probably worth checking cpu temps and also inspect heatsink/fan for dust and fluff.