Windows 10: CPU frecuency on IDLE may cause some freezing on the system

Hi;I've been having this issue for a while but didn't know what was the cause. Basically, my sistem freezes for a second CPU and GPU usage drops to 0 sometimes when playing a game, using the file explorer or even using any explorer. I'm 99.9% sure it's not my GPU or my HDD I've the storage service dissabled because it was slowing down my computer by keeping the HDD performance at 100% all the time, but that's another thread, so I decided to check my CPU and I've found this:I have an Intel Core i7 - 4770K with a base clockspeed of 3.49 GHz but, even on IDLE, the Intel Turbo Boost technology

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System idle process spike

Although you may have a problem that is causing fps drops, "System Idle Process" isn't what's causing it.

When "CPU usage" for System Idle Process is high, that means that your CPU is not doing much useful work.

Idle, noun:

• not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing: idle workers.
  
• not spent or filled with activity: idle hours.
  

When System Idle Process shows as 30%, what's taking up the majority of the rest of the CPU cycles? That's probably the source of the problem.

 

System Idle Process CPU Allocation?

Hi,

I am Sumit, an Independent advisor and a Microsoft MVP here to help.

System Idle Process, as the name suggests is a process that indicates CPU is idle and is not being used, aka is at rest. This is done to totalize CPU usage to 100 between the processes.

So you do not have to worry about anything.

 

System Idle Process High cpu usage

No, System Idle Process is *not* causing high cpu usage. It's not causing anything at all.

System Idle Process is not really any process at all. It's just a number inserted to make the total CPU usage add up to 100%. From the little information you've provided, I can't tell what your problem is, but it's definitely not System Idle Process .