After disabling Cortana, I confirm that I have a noticeable decrease in the CPU usage and CPU works 5 °C cooler. However, it can still be better than what it is now. I don't believe that Cortana is so much inefficient in resource usage.
Fans and CPU running very high Windows 10 Build 1903
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I upgraded to windows 10 version 1903 a few weeks ago. Shortly afterwards I noticed that my fans were running extremely fast and my CPU temps per core were running in the mid 50s C at system idle. Previously they were running in the mid to high 30s C. Task Manager shows my CPU usage at 100%. I get things back to normal if I disable the Power service, but as soon as I enable it again, my fans begin to race and the temps go up. My system uses an ASRock motherboard with an Intel i7-8700k and an 8500 watt power supply. I use the Balanced power setting profile. Diagnostics for Power doesn't pick up anything and I can't find anything with Google for anyone with a similar problem. I had a similar issue a couple of years back, but it was caused by me using the High Performance power profile. Once I changed to the Balanced profile the problem disappeared. This time, the problem is occurring with the Balanced power setting. Any suggestions on how to resolve this would be appreciated.
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2019-08-29T14:01:03+00:00 TheSETJ, very interesting. I always have Cortana disabled. I never use it. My temps run mid 50's when I have Power service enabled and mid 30's when I disable it. I have not checked to see if enabling Cortana would have an effect on either temperature range. I have 6 fans and am water-cooled. I will leave the Power service disabled until Microsoft comes out with a fix.
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2019-08-29T14:57:53+00:00 After disabling Cortana, I confirm that I have a noticeable decrease in the CPU usage and CPU works 5 °C cooler. However, it can still be better than what it is now. I don't believe that Cortana is so much inefficient in resource usage.
Agreed, Cortana was one of the bigger resource hogs - on my rig I ave a total of 5 others that are disabled which has improved the temps both on CPU, GPU, Memory and Power. Like Richard I also am water cooled with dual 240 mm fans for the CPU. with 6 other 140 mm fans - unit I have in degrees F rather than Celsius and temps are running CPU about 85 average - GPU 77 F average Liquid 84 F average and power 87 F average - when gaming I am in the high 90's F to around 105 F. I do have 2 programs that monitor temps, fans, mem, and power the NZXT Cam as well as the EVGA Precision XOC these programs work great
JtoThomas
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Anonymous
2019-08-30T19:39:36+00:00 Same issue here with me. But I noticed something. This is probably not the issue with many of you who replied to this thread, but I run a headless home automation server on win10. So when I configure it, I RDP to the PC.
This build 1903 has also peaked my CPU (ran from ~8% to ~54% after the update). I tried all the suggestion in this thread to no avail.
But I noticed that when I was RDP to the PC, the cpu ran ~15-20%. But when I logged out of the RDP session, the CPU went back up to +50% (I can tell because the automation software runs a WMI poll of CPU and MEM, which I trigger an email on if it exceeds 40%.)
Anyway, I added a monitor, keyboard, and mouse to watch the PC when not RDP'd in to see if I could catch a process spiking the CPU. I was thinking it was a maint task, or scan.
But to my surprise with a monitor and keyboard/mouse attached, the PC runs back down ~8-10% again.
Just to be sure, I removed the monitor keyboard and mouse again, rebooted, waited a few and it spiked again.
I think I found my issue, Not sure this is the same use case as others, but thought I would mention it.
Chuck
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Anonymous
2019-09-02T23:18:19+00:00 Same issue here with me. But I noticed something. This is probably not the issue with many of you who replied to this thread, but I run a headless home automation server on win10. So when I configure it, I RDP to the PC.
This build 1903 has also peaked my CPU (ran from ~8% to ~54% after the update). I tried all the suggestion in this thread to no avail.
But I noticed that when I was RDP to the PC, the cpu ran ~15-20%. But when I logged out of the RDP session, the CPU went back up to +50% (I can tell because the automation software runs a WMI poll of CPU and MEM, which I trigger an email on if it exceeds 40%.)
Anyway, I added a monitor, keyboard, and mouse to watch the PC when not RDP'd in to see if I could catch a process spiking the CPU. I was thinking it was a maint task, or scan.
But to my surprise with a monitor and keyboard/mouse attached, the PC runs back down ~8-10% again.
Just to be sure, I removed the monitor keyboard and mouse again, rebooted, waited a few and it spiked again.
I think I found my issue, Not sure this is the same use case as others, but thought I would mention it.
Chuck
Hey there - glad for the reply - I can see that you are prob one of the few that run the headless home auto server - I would suggest to take screenshots and compile a record to send to Microsoft - the issue with the temps is ongoing and for Me I have resolved them however it took a lot of time and effort to find the fixes for my systems and this should not be the case - hopefully MS will resolve this major issue soon. I have sent everything I could to them but nothing other than they received it. Glad you responded to this issue
JtoThomas