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Yes, it will still go into a low power state, unless you choose to disable it. You'll also want to use a voltage offset rather than just manually setting one, which will allow the voltage to drop as well. The 'CPU Package Power' reading at idle for my 2600 overclocked to 4.15GHz/1.35V is 11-12W, which is about 1-2W higher than it was at stock. Under full stress test load it hits just over 100W. The performance gain is well worth it IMO. I hit a brick wall at 4.15GHz though, personally. Even pumping it up to 1.415V doesn't get it to 4.2GHz.
When i Overclock it seems to stay at it even with cool and quiet and the other thing (forgot the name in the bios, 2 hours sleep)
Are you using the Balanced power profile in Windows? High Performance will keep it clocked up all the time. Ignore the 'Ryzen Balanced' one if you've installed chipset drivers and have it. It's no longer relevant and AMD recommend using the default Windows 10 Balanced one. Other than that, I'm not sure about how Gigabyte's BIOS works. Just overclocking with an offset voltage alone allows it to downclock/volt on my Crosshair VI. There could be another setting somewhere you need to tweak with Gigabyte. If there are any 'Auto' options relating to CnQ or similar, try setting them to enabled instead.
Thanks for that, I will have a jiggly fiddle later (in my bios ) and see what happens, pretty happy with my OC as is ,
As far as I know, disabling cores only provides minor increases at best. The problem with Ryzen isn't heat or power draw getting out of control, but hard voltage walls due to the manufacturing process (which is another reason to believe that Zen 2 will clock higher).
