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r5 3600 stuck in all core boost

Whagwan

Whagwan

Whagwan

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Hi all,

I'm at a bit of a loss at to why my r5 3600 is sat in all core boost at ~4.0Ghz in idle and under load.

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M/board is the MSI B450 tomahawk max. I have the latest chipset drivers and windows version, Power plan is set to Ryzen balanced.

I've tried lots of options as to turning on/off PBO, overclocking in both bios and Ryzen master, clearing CMOS to reset BIOS settings to stock etc.

Whatever I do it always sits with all cores boosted at the same speed. If I run prime 95 or load the CPU speed drops slightly, if I try and run a single thread test in CPU mark all cores continue to sit at the same speed.

Any help much appreciated!
 
Interestingly I have an MSI X470 Gaming Pro Carbon and have the same problem with my 3700x. Whenever I enable AMD precition boost the chip is locked at 4.4 Ghz.

In the end I have to just manually set the clocks and live with it, I know this isn't helpful just interesting to see someone has the same problem.
 
Whagwan said:
Hi all,

I'm at a bit of a loss at to why my r5 3600 is sat in all core boost at ~4.0Ghz in idle and under load.

Vbp2F1b.png


M/board is the MSI B450 tomahawk max. I have the latest chipset drivers and windows version, Power plan is set to Ryzen balanced.

I've tried lots of options as to turning on/off PBO, overclocking in both bios and Ryzen master, clearing CMOS to reset BIOS settings to stock etc.

Whatever I do it always sits with all cores boosted at the same speed. If I run prime 95 or load the CPU speed drops slightly, if I try and run a single thread test in CPU mark all cores continue to sit at the same speed.

Any help much appreciated!
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Looks like something is running which is loading your CPU although saying that temps are pretty cool.

open up resource monitor and see what's using the CPU.
solado said:
Interestingly I have an MSI X470 Gaming Pro Carbon and have the same problem with my 3700x. Whenever I enable AMD precition boost the chip is locked at 4.4 Ghz.

In the end I have to just manually set the clocks and live with it, I know this isn't helpful just interesting to see someone has the same problem.
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Are you sure that's not a bios feature called game boost as that will lock all the cores at 4.4?
 
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Doesn't look like anything unusual running to load the CPU, and as you said, temps are cool and so is power. When I run P95 or Folding@home, power draw, temps and fans rise.


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Whagwan said:
Doesn't look like anything unusual running to load the CPU, and as you said, temps are cool and so is power. When I run P95 or Folding@home, power draw, temps and fans rise.


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If you click on where it says average CPU it should show what is using the highest %.
 
All seems a lot lower now for some reason, with utorrent still running. Still showing 99% utilisation though, any ideas whats going on here? I'm stumped...

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Something in Firefox is hogging a lot of resources. I suspect you got some dodgy websites open that could be driving the WMI provider host as well the torrent.

also another suspect is Windows Explorer. That could be a number of things - you torrent would cause it to be high on utilisation as well as the aforementioned dodgy website. Another answer is potentially some kind of malware. This could be driving up the WMI as well.

basically kill your Firefox, and your torrent and see what happens.

Then load torrent and see if it pegs CPU still. If not then Firefox was at fault.
 
Only firefox tabs open last night were Twitter, facebook, gmail, overclockers and tom's hardware so nothing too dodgy there?

Ran a deep malware scan, killed firefox and torrents and CPU is still running on all-clock boost.

I ran CPUmark and am getting an average score for the r5 3600 so not concerned about whatever it is taking too much CPU power, so for now I've set just set a manual OC with Voltage of 1.3V and all-core boost of 4.1GHZ
 
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