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3600X @ 65W Woes

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Is this an issue or normal behaviour?
I have an AMD 3600X on a Asus B450E (latest BIOS) motherboard and using AMD Ryzen Master to monitor the CPU. My question is; no matter what Ryzen Master shows CPU power no more than 67.01W but I thought the CPU was a 95W part? It never really gets above 4.2Ghz (unless I manually OC, but power consumption is the same). I have tried both AMD power plans, AMD Balanced and High Performance. But for some weird reason, I get better performance on balanced. I have tried manually setting everything on the CPU and also tried disabling PBO, but the wattage remains the same. One other thing that I noticed, is the voltage, if I leave everything on auto in the BIOS, running CBR15 the voltage hits 1.45 to 1.5 and this doesn't drop below that the entire time CB is running. I have set this manually now, because that scared me.
For cooling, I'm using an open loop and my temps never exceed 69C after running CB multiple times. Will hit 72C when stress testing.
I have added screenshots of Ryzen Master under load and CBr15 results
Ryzen Master
Cinebench


Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have no idea if I have done something wrong, this is normal behaviour, or the hradware is possibly faulty.
 
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