high cpu activity from Anandtech forums?

[croupcough]

Is it just me, or does anyone else see their cpu activity rise to about 75-80% upon visiting the Anandtech Hot Deals forum? I know that sounds crazy... I'm using IE 5.01 sp2, Win98 SE, 550 mhz P3. IE security is Medium--I'm guessing this is some kind of scripting issue? It continues even after I close IE, until I reboot. It seems like this can be triggered by other sites, but Anandtech reliably causes it. Would love response from anyone w/a clue.

p.s. I've already done a virus scan and Ad-Aware--nothing to report. Task manager shows nothing unusual, and terminating programs has no effect.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

I think but not sure that it has something to do with the ads on the top.

 

[minendo]

<< I think but not sure that it has something to do with the ads on the top. >>


what ads?

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Check out which programs are running, both when you're experiencing the increased cpu activity and when you're not. Might think about posting this in Technical Support.

 

[croupcough]

<< Check out which programs are running, both when you're experiencing the increased cpu activity and when you're not. Might think about posting this in Technical Support. >>



Yeah, as I said there's nothing unusual running in the background--ZoneAlarm, NAV, I know those use resources but they don't cause constant CPU usage. And the darndest thing--sometimes if I close IE, then open it again, CPU goes down to 6-8%, then if I close it again it shoots back up to 80%. If I relaunch it to my home page, which presumably loads from cache, the cpu stays high, then if I refresh, cpu goes back down! So something's up, but you're right, this is for tech support, at first I thought this was caused by the AT forum but no longer seems to be (though it does trigger the behavior if it hasn't started yet). Thanks.

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Could always try updating to IE 5.5 or 6 and see if that does anything for your problem. Other things to try would be Netscape, Opera, and/or somethin' else.

 

[croupcough]

Actually I did some Google research and found that the Windows System Monitor is notoriously unreliable for registering CPU usage. Downloaded Microsoft "Wintop" and found that everything was ok. Sorry for the unnecessary post!

 

[Geekbabe]

I don't see any ads as a subscriber but can say that I have noticed greatly increased CC activity here as result of visiting the Hot Deals forum.


Just thought I'd interject some humor into a puzzling computer question