svchost.exe *32 spamming my Processor?

I got a laptop about six or seven months ago, so I know I've had plenty of time to accumulate a virus or two, but I've several scans with several different programs, and there seems to be nothing.

So, my problem is with the actual overuse of programs. It doesn't seem to matter the program just at some points during the day, several media programs, and in fact several system programs seem to jump off the chart in the realm of CPU usage. They all seem to stem from the svchost.exe *32 program, because when it starts kicking out usage the rest of the programs follow suit. I have seen Chrome go from minimal CPU usage of about 0-2% all the way up to 25% on a single window. Media Player Classic will sometimes jump up to 80% and I can't even turn on my GPU without the system overloading the processor. My other reason for not believing its too much of a virus is because my RAM level never rises about 30%

I'm an electronic's student, but I don't have the same software knowledge as most, but I am running Windows 7, 64 bit quadcore, 6GB RAM.

 

This svchost.exe is a generic process by windows, the following article will give you more information about it:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/what-is-svchostexe-and-why-is-it-running/

How long was it at 25% was it a spike or was it constant for a long period of time?

This doesn't make any sense to me. Enabling the GPU takes the load off of your CPU it doesn't add more to it.
Is this 80% of a single core or 80% of all cores of your processor? With the GPU turned off the CPU will have to work harder.

You cannot judge this by how much ram is being used. If something is peeking your cpu usage such as a virus it could be very small in size.

 

Of course, what you are saying makes sense as far as my original thoughts.

But, anyway. The spikes do not quit until I either shut the programs down, such as EVE and Chrome. In the case of MPC the spike will last until I pause whatever I am watching and/or close it out.

Upon further review, the spike happens during any heavy graphical loading on the processor. Such as in Chrome's case its Shochwave player that will eventually crash, if I don't personally turn it off. MPC is still doing the same thing, even on videos in 720p.

In the case of the game EVE, the game will close out to update, but when its done updating it will never bring the widow back up. The computer says its running and taking up processing power, but I've sat there for thirty minutes and it would never start.

I guess its just anything graphical that just sits there and starts spiking up.