Whats your CPU Usage % when Idle on Vista?

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Hi,

I would like to know everyones CPU Usage % when Idle on Vista as mine is never flat 0%. its always fluctuating around 2,5,8,12,16% which is mainly the cause by svchost.exe.

[+Mystic MVC]

Mine is near 2% and 3% probably because I have a Dreamscene in the background.

[ViperAFK]

0-3% (X2 5600+)

[Nagisan]

Mine right now goes anywhere from 0-3% completely idle (not moving the mouse or typing, even then it barely goes up any if at all) on a Q6700@3.8Ghz.

And that is with Opera (with around 20-25 tabs) and uTorrent running.

[zhangm Supervisor]

About 3%, with Firefox downloading, WMP paused, WLM, and Google Talk in the background.

Curiously, Firefox is using more than twice the RAM of all my other user processes combined.

[ViperAFK]

  Relativity_17 said:

About 3%, with Firefox downloading, WMP paused, WLM, and Google Talk in the background.

Curiously, Firefox is using more than twice the RAM of all my other user processes combined.

I have foobar2000 playing, trillian astra, and utorrent seeding 81 torrents at 0% :) and firefox with a good amount of tabs only using 95 mb of ram (with 8 extensions).

[tsupersonic]

0-2%, got pidgin, firefox, winamp running, and consuming 635 MB/ 1536 MB

[jkrupa128]

Mine is 0-1% then shoots up to 50-60% and back to 0-1% ???

[Inctye]

With all my usual apps loaded in the background and nothing downloading, its usually around 0-4%.

[jwjw1]

0-1% with 51 processes...then jumps to 4% when my MailAlert checks emails every 10 mins.

[Pupik]

Mine jumps always from 0% to 2-5% with 60 processes, but only because of foobar2000.exe and taskmgr.exe

edit: Using C2D if that matters.

[Nagisan]

Forgot to mention above (too late to edit the post) I am also running Everest, which is set to update my temperature readouts every 2 seconds. I also use a Sidebar widget (not the default Everest one) for a better stylized readout of my temps and utilization. Both of these use around 1% when updating, so chances are with those closed I would be sitting around 0-1% while idle.

[Yuxi]

5-10% with a load of sidebar cpu + network monitors, Outlook, and Trillian Astra. :)

[Srugie Veteran]

0-4% with a bunch of programs running.

[capr]

0-5%.... not sure why it goes up and down and what those cpu cycles are doing but it's there and doesn't really bother me so i dont care much about it. I am thinking it's the snchost that runs aero and it's turning off as windows goes idle....

[waruikoohii]

I have a Q6600, and when idle one of my cores will be at 0-3% utilization. That's with AIM and Steam running in the background, with a couple of IE windows and several tabs open, and with the sidebar running.

[KreepLX360]

I am sorry but that is a strange question. You have to figure that task manager takes 2% so there you have it.

[WHS]

I run the CPU meter and some other gadgets (e.g. 2 slideshows) on the sidebar. With that said, CPU usage is 0-3% on the Q6600 and about 10% on the AMD 4800+

[DJ-Light]

6%

[thealexweb]

5%

[jamesVault]

Intel E4500,

CPU usage: 4% -> 3% -> 2% -> 3% ->1% -> 2% -> 3% -> 2% -> 4% -> 2% ->3%

=======> about less than 4%

It's too high in idle! I hope the SP2 will fix this.

Edited December 24, 2008 by jamesVault

[MasterSasuke]

her'es a hint...

in Control Panel, double click power options

choose the plan you have selected, click on "change plan settings"

then click on"change advanced power settings..."

the only thing you should need to change is near the bottom:"processor power management"

double-click it: the double-click "minumum processor state" it shall show you.

[+John. Subscriber¹]

Last time I was on vista it was around 7% with all standard background processes running.

[Eric Veteran]

0-3 idle on my crappy old Pentium D... :)

[Konstanov]

3%, Songbird is using 1% and Task Manager is using 2%.