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Postby Darkfoxx » Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:35 pm

You guys probably remember me saying something on here about my CPU always being at 20% on Vista.

I have figured this shit out!

Turns out it was the Marvell 61xx RAID Controller on my board. I just disabled that shit and now I have 0% CPU usage at idle.

I figured this out by using . Shit is a fucking lifesaver!

My Hardware Interrupts were constantly hovering around 18-22%, so I did some searching on the net about hardware interrupts and high cpu usage. Bingo!

My CPU usage before this fix:


And after...


Just in case anyone cares and has a similar issue.

Oh, and my wPrime score is now 17.034 seconds. All is good in the world now.
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Postby bluetenken » Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:21 pm

Did u disable that from the bios or the services?

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Postby Darkfoxx » Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:01 pm

Device Manager.

I disabled the device and then I saw the CPU usage drop to 0%.
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