Windows 10

From the sounds of it I think you may need an upgrade. If you're just meeting the minimum requirements it will struggle.

Before jumping the gun and upgrading or getting a new one I'd wait to see if driver updates eventually land and solve this issue.

Out of interest what operating system came on your laptop and what is the spec?

Another thing I advise people to do who are struggling with performance is to download AVG PC Tune Up.

This is a handy piece of software that cleans your registry, removes duplicate files, disables windows features that impacting on your system (this will help in your situation) among other things.

Once you've used the free trial once I just un-install the programme

People don't realise the amount of CPU power used by things like having minimize and maximize animation on windows, Transparent windows etc

Use AVG PC Tune up and it will disable all features impacting on your system. It doesn't look as flashy but who wants flashy windows over performance.

I have a relatively high end laptop (capable of running new games) and even I disable these features as these run off your CPU not your GPU

its an old desktop machine.
i7 920 4gb of ram.

its plenty fast enough to run windows 8.1 and apparently windows 10 uses less resources so i don't see why i would need to be running tools and stuff.

i've worked in I.T for 7 years so I am pretty savvy with computers, was hoping there would be some super IT wizard here that has had similar issues with Windows eating up resources when it is doing nothing.

i checked online but there wasn't a lot of info for Windows 10 yet

I downloaded a fresh copy of Windows 10.
I am going to do a fresh install as I have never liked upgrading Windows versions, I find something always messes up compared to doing Fresh installs

Sounds like your machine should be handling that just fine. Hopefully your clean install will work.

I'd still download pc tuneup as it disables a lot of things that you would otherwise have to navigate to through your control panel

Oh and Cortana and other bits use a lot so disable her straight away

oh yeah forgot about that wh.o re

Have you uninstalled and reinstalled your xhamster app?

that's priority 1