• On the affected server, what is the power setting within windows?

    What is the power saving mode set to in the BIOS?

    If power saving is enabled in the BIOS you could see these symptoms you are describing.

    If Windows is not set to "High Performance" (within the power configuration in control panel) you could see these symptoms.

    Then the next item would be to identify the queries running at the time cpu starts to spike and tune those.

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