CPU usage skyrocketing!!!

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CPU usage skyrocketing!!!

does this for an assortment of apps for instance, chess. I'll play chess for 5 minutes and the fan goes really loud. I check cpu usage and it's at 98%. same for finale notebook, and other apps. this doesn't seem right. whats the problem. I have a second generation macbook pro

macbook pro 2.16 Ghz, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Nov 16, 2007 9:48 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 16, 2007 10:22 PM in response to robisonfactor

I mean finale notepad not notebook. It's another app

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Answer 2

el jeffe

Level 1

30 points

Nov 18, 2007 8:42 AM in response to robisonfactor

Open Utilities/Activity Monitor and look for any apps running in PPC.
I had a Palm sync program using 99% of my CPU!

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Answer 3

Nov 18, 2007 8:25 PM in response to el jeffe

all processes are intel... there is a giant list, but most are inactive. I always know what program is eating up my cpu but I don't understand why. I can't believe chess or finale notepad could possibly be that cpu intensive.. what gives?

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Answer 4

Mandy K

Level 2

325 points

Nov 18, 2007 9:06 PM in response to robisonfactor

I can't speak for Finale Notepad, but as for chess... well, companies like IBM build supercomputers like Deep Blue in order to calculate enough chess positions to match a human player. And I dare say Deep Blue has a bit more brute force processing power than your MacBook Pro. 🙂

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