I recently built a gaming system with the following components:
Intel Core I5-4690K,
MSI Z97-Gaming ATX LGA 1150 motherboard,
16 Gigs RAM,
GIGABYTE GTX970 Graphics Gard,
Intel 730 SSD Drive, Windows 8 OS
When hardwired or wirelessly connected to the internet when I start Borderland2 the cpu runs at 100% as do all other games. I brought the machine back to Micro Center. They did a diagnostic and couldn't find any reason for the CPU to run high. In fact at Micro Center it runs fine. They're convinced its my environment. I swapped out different monitors just to try something which made no difference. No other processes are using the CPU other than the game. If I can't fix this I'll have to return all the parts and I'm running out of time. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Mike
Best Answer
A game using 100% of the CPU is not a bug, it is the intended behavior.
You're running a game, what else do you want the CPU to be used for? Any CPU a game can take helps increase your frame rate and is generally a good thing so game use as much as possible.