CPU easily overloaded compared to a few days ago

[Nogoodnms]

My computer has been running really slow lately. You've probably heard those words one thousand times, but here's what's going on for me, as best as I can explain it.

Audio is the first thing I noticed, mainly whenever I try to play a song on iTunes there's a huge amount of choppiness no matter how many programs I close. YouTube videos on both Firefox and Chrome are lagging intensely (when using Firefox, the Flash Player seems to make the lag a huge amount worse and the load on my CPU and RAM go up very high). Video games are performing a lot worse than a few days ago.

The change occurred sometime around when I installed Assassin's Creed: Unity, although I'm not sure how that would have an effect on anything when not in use. I can't come up with anything else.

Here's what I've tried so far:

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  ■Restarting the computer, multiple times.
  ■Updating BIOS and a couple of drivers.
  ■Updating with Windows Update as far as I can go.
  ■Restarting the service called Windows Management Instrumentation.
  ■Running MalwareBytes, TDSS Cleaner, and Adwcleaner (nothing came up).
  ■Reinstalling my Antivirus.

A few other things, but I can't recall them at this moment.

 

[maestro0428]

Hmm. I suppose it could be that the hard disk is failing. How old is the PC?
http/windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/check-your-hard-disk-for-errors

 

[doubletake]

It would help to know what hardware you're running in the first place.

 

[Nogoodnms]

Hmm. I suppose it could be that the hard disk is failing. How old is the PC?
http/windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/check-your-hard-disk-for-errors

I bought the whole thing back in 2010, but have been upgrading various parts of it at a good rate ever since (once a year or so). Specifications here: http/puu.sh/daQ98/efacd7b59f.png

It would help to know what hardware you're running in the first place.

My apologies, please see above.

Also, here is a screenshot from HWMonitor after running the Heaven Benchmark for a few minutes: http/puu.sh/daO3w/d598fd2356.png

 

[maestro0428]

Hmm. I suppose it could be that the hard disk is failing. How old is the PC?
http/windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/check-your-hard-disk-for-errors

I bought the whole thing back in 2010, but have been upgrading various parts of it at a good rate ever since (once a year or so). Specifications here: http/puu.sh/daQ98/efacd7b59f.png

It would help to know what hardware you're running in the first place.

My apologies, please see above.

Also, here is a screenshot from HWMonitor after running the Heaven Benchmark for a few minutes: http/puu.sh/daO3w/d598fd2356.png

Is this after the run, it looks like it, cuz during the run, you should get higher loads and temps.

 

[Nogoodnms]

Hmm. I suppose it could be that the hard disk is failing. How old is the PC?
http/windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/check-your-hard-disk-for-errors

I bought the whole thing back in 2010, but have been upgrading various parts of it at a good rate ever since (once a year or so). Specifications here: http/puu.sh/daQ98/efacd7b59f.png

It would help to know what hardware you're running in the first place.

My apologies, please see above.

Also, here is a screenshot from HWMonitor after running the Heaven Benchmark for a few minutes: http/puu.sh/daO3w/d598fd2356.png

Is this after the run, it looks like it, cuz during the run, you should get higher loads and temps.

Yeah, I did say "after running the Heaven Benchmark for a few minutes".

 

[maestro0428]

We need to see what the numbers are while its running to really help. Can you take a screen shot then?

 

[Nogoodnms]

We need to see what the numbers are while its running to really help. Can you take a screen shot then?

This is while running Assassin's Creed: Unity, is it good enough?
http/puu.sh/daSBU/14e5004a33.png

 

[maestro0428]

Looks like everything is in line to me. Did you check the hard disk for errors?

 

[Nogoodnms]

Looks like everything is in line to me. Did you check the hard disk for errors?

Just did so. Nothing found.

 

[Nogoodnms]

Here are a couple of screenshots of what processes seem to be taking up CPU whenever I hear stuttering when listening to music, however please keep in mind that ending these processes does nothing to end the stutter:
http/puu.sh/dbOdm/256b48c0ee.png
http/puu.sh/dbOeq/1a7c7a4655.png

 

[Nogoodnms]

So should I consider this thread dead?