So, just as a follow up: I installed 8.1 Enterprise on a new partition to test your idea out. I ended up with very high CPU temperatures like before. Unfortunately the mystery appears to have been...

No, I don't. It's about 3% with my Carbonite running in the background.




I will have to give that a shot later, if anything I may be able to help someone else out. This PC was originally a...

Thanks for the reply!

Looking at the update utility and checking back in the "Drivers and Hardware" forums gave me some vital information. My X58 chipset had support discontinued by Dell and...

Hi all, this is my first post to the forum. With Windows 10 showing up on more computers every day, I decided to take the leap and upgrade my operating system. I figured that I would need to know...