Solved Power usage is "Very High" & PC is very hot

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For the past few days my PC has been slow and freezing a lot, so I was trying to fix it and found that my power usage is "Very High" in my task manager. Not sure what caused this or how to fix, been looking everywhere trying to solve it. Whenever I interact with anything, it spikes to "Very High" like this:
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and it begins to heat up a lot, up to 60-70 C.

I've tried everything I can think of, wondering if anyone else has had this issue and any potential fixes, any help would be great!

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I've had this PC for over a year, never had any issues with the power usage before.
 
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Have you checked the fans ? Give us your complete psu spec's. Have you ran a anti virus and malware scan?
 
I just recently cleaned my PC, when this first started and it didn't seem to do much, although I didn't do a deep clean, just brushed out the dust and hair mainly. I've checked the fans, they all seem to be working, I got pictures from the BIOS just in case those help:

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I'm not sure if SYS_FAN1/CPU_OPT ever worked, or how to fix them if they did tbh.

I have run a malware scan a few times, I'm clean on that side:
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Some miners are sneaky we could make sure there is no malware if you wish....
 
Yeah I was researching and its not too hot but compared to before the issue its bad, like I can hold my hand above the vents and it's physically hot, even playing the most intensive games (not anything crazy, like rocket league lol) I had on max settings wouldn't do that before.
I uninstalled Java, didn't seem to do anything after a reset.
XMP is off in my bios.

Thats interesting about the power supply, when I got it I never saw any warnings about that, but it has been working fine for over a year or so, maybe it's just slowly deteriorating IDK.
 
Yeah I made the imgur gif before I posted here, someone else suggested I ditch Avast and just use windows defender so I did. When I made the speccy for here I had already uninstalled. Getting rid of Avast unfortunately did nothing
 
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PeterOz said:
Post#1 task manager shows Avast
Speccy does not show Avast
Hmmm
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Yep, there were no residual traces of Avast in the ZHP diag logs, which is extremely odd.

@Andytechhelp what software did you use to uninstall Avast? Even using the removal tool, it will leave traces in the registry. Curious.....
 
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Yep, there were no residual traces of Avast in the ZHP diag logs, which is extremely odd.

@Andytechhelp what software did you use to uninstall Avast? Even using the removal tool, it will leave traces in the registry. Curious.....
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I made the Imgur before removing so it should all be gone, when I did the speccy I had already removed Avast. I removed it using the control panel -> Uninstall a program.

Also about the other post the last thing only took me 20 minutes, dunno why it was so fast if it was supposed to be a few hours.
 
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