Recent content by Rooky_Ghost

If your temps are high, it could be thermal throttling, however, that is abnormally high usage for explorer on idle with that CPU. Can you reinstall the drivers and let us know if that helps? It would be also nice to have a look at your task manager, sorted by CPU usage.

Since you have a fan and a cooler running off the laptop, I assume you're in a hot environment, and that the heat is an issue, regardless of the mAh your devices may draw. A soundcard shouldn't be much of an issue, and the eHDD wouldn't be useful if you got a self-powered hub. If the laptop is...

Changing the state of Hybrid sleep may help too.