cpu spikes always

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Yes but when you "sit there" for some time, the computer goes into an idle state (not to be confused with the power management thingy) and when you "do something", it fires up ... nothing to be overly concerned about
 
im not concerned it might be normal but i dont like it because if im listening to music it stops it and or takes like 5-10 sec for the window to open. just doesnt seem right for 1 gig of ram and a 1.8g p 4
 
i dont like it because if im listening to music it stops it and or takes like 5-10 sec for the window to open
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Ok thats not normal heehee. What video card (and what driver version) do you have? Sometime video cards have funky little settings that mess with performance like that although that seems kinda drastic
 
when i type on AIM and listen to a CD at the same time sometimes my music skips if i type too fast. but there not really skips...more of lags so im not too concerned. and if i type slower it doesnt happen lol.
 
WOW .... WOW. Shocking. So all this could be an AOL inefficiency???! WOW.

Are you using the offical AIM client? I dont and I never encounter those kinds of problems even when im encoding DVDs or something in the background (i uses trillian)
 
latest version of AIM actually. it uses alot of system memory..dont know why. and it ONLY lags WMP if aim is running..i can be doing something more cpu intensive and WMP is fine..but aim messes it up lol. weird.
 
Does AIM have voice features? Thats the only thing i can think of that could possibly cause problems
 
Is there a way to turn off that capability... i would think that would solve your problems :)
 
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Ok thats not normal heehee. What video card (and what driver version) do you have? Sometime video cards have funky little settings that mess with performance like that although that seems kinda drastic
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i have a GeForce2 MX/MX 400 and the latest driver i belive
 
A bit old but standard nonetheless. Have you looked into the possibility of disabling either permenantly or temporarily the voice features of AIM? :)
 
none, its when i have winamp open and i open a window or close one like internet explorer or maybe outlook, by open i close i mean minimize and maxmize
 
Yes but how do you know your CPU is hitting 100%? If you can find that out... then it would be listed in the process list (i hope) :)
 
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