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i3 2370m issues, trouble shooting help, Inspiron N5050

ThrashDeathDoom

Commendable
Apr 5, 2016
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i have an old laptop that i bought roughly 4 years ago that i recently wiped and installed Win 10 on, but even at idle i get random and often occurrences of my CPU shooting up in "utilization %" sometimes to 100% and sometimes just sits around at 60% or so, it runs the fans super high and sits like that for a bit and then calms down and experiences random spikes to 99% and so forth, this didnt really happen before i wiped it and reinstalled windows. this makes even the games i played on it before, LoL, and CSGO run like [CENSORED], any ideas? or is the CPU shot, if so.... i may try to replace it with something better as a youtube video or something,