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Windows 7: Audio mobs the CPU
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11 Jan 2012
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Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8 Florida in winter, Black Forest/Germany |
Audio mobs the CPU
This is not a problem, just a curiosity.
I am running my webradio from back home all day. At times, a bubble comes up above the tasktray that there is high CPU usage of the audio. This is an i7 CPU.
The phenomenon lasts only a few seconds because when I go into the task manager, the audiodg.exe is already down to just a few percent and eventually it goes to less than 1%.
I really wonder what could make the audio spike like that. Any ideas??
| My System Specs |
| System Manufacturer/Model Number HP, Dell, Gateway, Toshiba - 4 laptops and 2 desktops
OS Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
CPU from 1.6GHz Duo to i7
Monitor(s) Displays 2x HP w2207
Keyboard with trackball - no mices
Mouse Trackball mice
Hard Drives 5x HDD, 7x SSD, 12x Externals
Internet Speed DSL 6000
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11 Jan 2012
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#2 | |
Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1 (desktop) east central NY state |
Random stab in the dark.....could the audio feed simply be buffering? | | My System Specs | | Computer type PC/Desktop
System Manufacturer/Model Number Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
OS Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1 (desktop)
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R
Memory 2x 2GB OCZ DDR II SDRAM PC2-6400
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 9400GT
Monitor(s) Displays HP 2009m(primary), Acer P191W
Screen Resolution 1600x900, 1440x900
Keyboard Logitech Wave
Mouse Logitech M-SBF90
PSU Antec Earthwatts EA500D
Case Antec Sonata III
Cooling 4 fans
Hard Drives Internal:WD Caviar Black 640GB 32MB cache 7200RPM
External:Samsung Story Station 1TB HDD desktop drive
500GB Toshiba portable drive
Internet Speed Slow due to home Wireless-G router
Antivirus MSE, Hitman Pro, Malwarebytes
Browser Chrome and Palemoon
Other Info Laptop....Acer 5750Z-4835
15.6" HD Widescreen CineCrystal™ LED-backlit LCD Display: (1366x768 resolution, 16:9 aspect ratio)
Intel® Pentium® Processor B940 (2.0GHz, 2MB L3 cache)
Windows® 7 Home Premium,500GB Hard Drive,4GB DDR3 RAM, Intel® HD Graphics,8X DVD-Super Multi Double-Layer Drive
Multi-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader,802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi
Chrome and Palemoon, MSE, Hitman Pro
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11 Jan 2012
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#3 | |
Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8 Florida in winter, Black Forest/Germany |
I doubt it. If it were buffering, the audio would stutter. But that is not the case. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HP, Dell, Gateway, Toshiba - 4 laptops and 2 desktops
OS Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
CPU from 1.6GHz Duo to i7
Monitor(s) Displays 2x HP w2207
Keyboard with trackball - no mices
Mouse Trackball mice
Hard Drives 5x HDD, 7x SSD, 12x Externals
Internet Speed DSL 6000
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11 Jan 2012
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#4 | |
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 & Mac OS X 10.7.1 United Kingdom |
maybe its just a phantom bubble falsely reporting. if you have taks manager open at the time is there a visible spike?
windows occasionally tells me my gaming rig is running slow and not capable of running areo.. moments later im playing bf3 on ultra  so i often hammer the ignore button | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Built by badgers!!!
OS Windows 7 Ultimate x64 & Mac OS X 10.7.1
CPU Intel Core i5 2500k
Motherboard Asus P8z68
Memory Corsair Vengence 8gb 1866mhz
Graphics Card XFX Ati HD6950 2Gb
Sound Card Mobo Optical to Yamaha Rx-V667 7.2 home cinema system
Monitor(s) Displays Samsung LED 32" TV
Screen Resolution 1920x1080
Keyboard Saitek Cyborg V7
Mouse Saitek R.A.T 9
PSU Corsair HX650w Modular
Case NZXT Phantom White
Cooling Corsair H60 Push/Pull
Hard Drives 120gb Corsair Force 3 SSD
Internet Speed Too slow!
Other Info AMD fusion E350N Home server-Windows Home Server 2011 (also made by badgers!)
2011 Macbook 2.4ghz Core2Duo, 4gb ddr3, 120gb Ocz Vertex SSD
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11 Jan 2012
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#5 | |
Systems 1 and 2: Windows 7 Enterprise x64, Win 8 Developer University of Kentucky |
Process Explorer from MS will show you a history of usage, files open, etc. This might be a nice way of seeing the exact file responsible. Process Explorer | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Dell and Custom
OS Systems 1 and 2: Windows 7 Enterprise x64, Win 8 Developer
CPU System 1: i7 2600@3.4GHz, System 2: AMD FX-4100 Zambezi 3.6G
Motherboard System 1:Dell 06NWYK System 2: ASUS M5A97 AM3+
Memory System 1: 8GB System 2: 8GB
Graphics Card System 1: ATI FirePro V4800 System 2: Radeon HD 6850
Sound Card System 1: onboard System 2: onboard
Monitor(s) Displays System1: Viewsonic HDMI 24"
Screen Resolution System 1: 1920x1080 System 2: 1920x1080
Case System 1: Dell System 2: Cooler Master
Hard Drives System 1: Mirrored .5B drives System 2: Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s
Internet Speed 10 MBPS
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11 Jan 2012
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#6 | |
Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8 Florida in winter, Black Forest/Germany |
Yeah, the spike is real and it is the audio process. It is not really important, but I was just baffled. It happens about once every third day. If I did not have the CPU meter running, I would probably not notice it. The i7 can crunch a lot of processes.
But it happened on my old HP system too. At that time I thought it was an oddity of that system. But that Dell here is brand new. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HP, Dell, Gateway, Toshiba - 4 laptops and 2 desktops
OS Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
CPU from 1.6GHz Duo to i7
Monitor(s) Displays 2x HP w2207
Keyboard with trackball - no mices
Mouse Trackball mice
Hard Drives 5x HDD, 7x SSD, 12x Externals
Internet Speed DSL 6000
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