So which internet browser you using instead? I remember how once I opened a number of tabs on Opera, Firefox and Chrome, and then compared through task manager which occupies least memory, and Chrome was the winner. BUT, looking back, I don't remember looking at which occupied lowest CPU % consumption.
Any ideas why it did such turboing despite just 33% usage? @ that time, I had no Box Sync, Chrome, File Explorer, Windows Photo Viewer etc windows open up/running at all, and was just following a reboot!
Next day, aka today, morning - had: {Chrome browser (2 windows open) + 1 MS Word window + Box Sync running in background + Windows Photo viewer + 1 file explorer window} open, in the middle of calling someone from my mobile (with laptop in front and me not touching it during the call). What's weird, is how for some time, fan was continuously noisy and spinning very fast. Then, all of a sudden during my call, it just out of nowhere had calmed down, no such noise of fan thereafter. After, put laptop in hibernate, then turned it up after uni. I say that it's a chunk of the time not so noisy, occasionally (like after every 2/3 mins) it can get louder/faster fan, but that fairly soon disappears (lasts perhaps about 10-15s). Roughly 50 degrees celsius CPU temp. CPU usage even sometimes being as low as 2%. 16% just witnessed, and 5% before that. 78% can spike up if you quickly open up Facebook + Google Maps tabs on Chrome, both of which are media-rich, which did cause fan to become faster/louder. See attached pics plz.
Yes, Speccy, the attached pics on the right of Task Manger window, the Speccy window with CPU temp there.I've been using it since summer 2016, and tbh the issue was back then too. Got it off my bro, who said that it's just like that. I think total age of this laptop is perhaps 1-2 yrs.
A full scan, so I doubt it's that being the issue.
Well, back then, there was NO Chrome actually open, and that's the very surprising thing actually! Just task manager - see OP, first pic there, see bottom, how it's just task manager open, no Chrome at all! I even then had no Box Sync background service running too.
Currently, I've got {Chrome browser (2 windows open, 8 and 6 tabs respectively, neither of which are media-rich(e.g. YouTube, FB, G Maps etc kind I mean) + Box Sync and f.lux running in background + Windows Photo viewer + 1 file explorer window} open + Task Manager + Speccy} open. All processes currently are shown on 6 images that I've attached. Thanks for your help.