It's something like the top 5-10% manufactured get the best OC performance. OC performance usually boils down to luck of the draw on the particular CPU you get. Perhaps some other MVP's can validate the CPU utilizatoin on their systems as well with no OC and OC as well? I'll submit feedback on this and reference this thread. CPU utilization does seem to be at play though. The combined high usage and high overclock pegging for a length of time could be the combo that's doing it. Weird thing is I don't notice any issues running other apps at the same time as an Acronis backup - even a couple of VM's. Ran another backup program and CPU stays around 40-50% and takes roughly the same amount of time. one with performance operation set to "normal" and the other set to "low". However, you may be onto something with high CPU as mine is pegged out at 95-100% during backup as well. Haven't noticed any issues during backup with the current version. The game itself is perfectly playable in the foreground.Įdit 2: Just noticed your signature, looks like we have quite similar systems. I'm running it now and the cpu is only 45% and thats with GTA V running in the background as well (10%). Interestingly I can also confirm the cloud backup doesn't exhibit the same behaviour. The game is streaming its data from the 950 pro. While the fan is quieter, its still pegged at 100% and if anything the effect in game is even worse, but it goes away the instant the backup is stopped, resuming shortly after the backup is restarted. I should clarify that 4.4 was my boost speed before, its usualy at 4.2 like yours (well, 800 at idle) the rest of the time. Theres also the fact that with ATI16 it was butter smooth backing up in the background for three months.Įdit: Dropped the CPU and ram right back to stock frequency (3.8ghz boost), timings and voltages. Thanks for the suggestion, Ill certainly confirm it, but I doubt that's the issue.Ĥ.4 is pretty 'standard' for Skylake chips, and mine is capable of more than I'm asking of it, I had it stable at 4.6 but the increased fan noise from the extra heat wasn't worth it so I wound it back down. If not, then boost to 4.2 and try again and work back up to 4.4. At least test it to validate without assuming. Try 4.0 and see if you have the same behavior or not. It throttles up automatically when needed. I'm running my 6600k at 4.2 but not constantly either. During gaming, cpu won't impact as much as your GPU. I would guess it's more your over lock becoming unstable when stressed. I'll be submitting a ticket to Acronis as well as this post, but I thought i'd throw out the details in case it helps anyone else troubleshoot. I'd been using 2016 for about a year previously on another, older system (now retired) without seeing these issues. The external drive isn't encrypted but the backup itself is.
This system is just under 3 months old with a fresh install of Windows 10 pro 64 bit and bittlocker drive encryption on the internal drives. The stuttering is certainly new but it feels like the high CPU has been going on a little longer.
I can't be 100% certain if it started with the 2017 upgrade or if it was since the last update of 2016. The mobile service is running, but doesn't appear to be using any resources, so I don't think it's the issue in my case. The local backup is set to run as low priority. I'm not sure if cloud backups have the same effect, I've certainly only noticed it happening during local backup.
This is an Intel i5 6600k running at 4.4ghz under full boost (which it's being kept at) and a noticable increase in fan noise. I used to be able to let the backup run in the background and still use the system for playing games, now, if the local drive backup is running I see multple 0.5-1 second pauses whenever the game needs to load data from the disk.Īt first I thought it was just the old spinning iron HDD getting overwhelmed, but it even occurs with games running from my NMVe SSD boot drive and there's no way that can't keep up.Īfter a bit more investigation, the CPU is pegged at a constant 100%, and Acronis processes account for about 82% of that. I have it configured to do an 'Entire PC' backup to USB3 local drive and another 'Entire PC' with steam folders excluded to the cloud, both backups are set to run daily. I'm seeing this too, Upgraded in place from 2016.