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High GPU Activity while on idle.
So the usage and temperature of my video card suddenly goes up while my PC was idle. The usage increased about 90% and the temp around about 50-55 degrees. At first, I thought it was some kind of malware causing all this but I did a full scan on my PC and there didn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary. My PC was virus free. I also took out the video card and dusted it off for safe measures but none of those methods solved the problem. If I restart my PC, the temp will be at about 26 degrees and after a while, it will shoot back up to 55 degrees with 90% usage. This has never happened before and my video card is about 3 months old now and I have no idea what to do. I also rolled back my video card drivers to a previous version and that seems to fix my problem almost immediately. But unfortunately the problem quickly came back and stayed. I also did a system restore to the date before all this started happening but did nothing either. The video card I have is an AMD Sapphire R9 270x and my OS is Windows 8.1. So I will be very grateful if someone can help me out with this issue. Thank you.