Okay, I think I'm onto something. I was watching my Resource Monitor on the CPU tab, just kinda staring blindly if truth be told, and noticed that CPU's 2 and 3 were intermittently going "parked." Long story short, I did a little research and while this may be "ok" on a laptop on battery, there doesn't seem to be a need to do this on a PC. In fact once I "unparked" all CPU's and rebooted, I noticed my temperatures were all a bit lower and all of the CPU's were running at lower % useage... kinda obvious if you think about it.
Now there were several instructions for "unparking" which is primarily related to Windows 7, but still work in WIndows 10. D
O YOUR HOMEWORK AND GOOGLE UNPARKING CPU IN WINDOWS 10. I chose the lazy way of just grabbing an App called
Unpark-CPU-App. Now I can't recommend this yet (or ever) as I'm not sure it's the solution, but I have been watching videos, on facebook, checking mail etc.. for the past hour which is longer than I have been able to do anything most of the past several days. I'm watching the Resource Monitor windows on the CPU tab, and things idle MUCH lower across the board (cpu, memory, wifi) than they did before and of course, no more intermittent CPU parking.
This app lets you Unpark and Park, and
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK !!!! The author recommends trying the newer "Beta" version, but I used the more simple older version that has a simple "UNPARK ALL" button.
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK - This UTILITY makes a change to the Registry
Good luck to us all..
http://www.coderbag.com/programming-...arking-utility
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK - This UTILITY makes a change to the Registry