When I open apps on my computer, the GPU temporarily spikes to 100, and my cursor slows down audio stutters and stuff like that. Is this a sign that the power supply is not powerful enough to supply the power for the

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    5 days ago

    A bad PSU will usually result in boot problems or general instability - applications or OS crashing, bsod etc particularly when power demand spikes (gaming, heavy disk use etc).

    Assuming you’re not running out of RAM, this sounds like a software issue. It could be drivers as others mentioned, some background software interfering or perhaps even malware. As a just in case: have you fiddled with process priorities in task manager?

    If you’ve got a spare hdd, you could swap that in and do a clean install of your OS. If the issues remain, it’s a hardware problem, if they disappear then it’s something software or config in your current install