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Yes there is no point in it being at 100% all the time so fluctuations are normal. Although I might have a dodgy CPU because mine idles at 3.8Ghz and never drops below that!
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Your power profile in Windows is probably set at high power. If you change it to balanced, then the processor should clock down when idle.
Also what are you using to measure the clock speed? Many tools cannot read current frequency properly, in fact some tools interrogate the CPU in a way that the CPU sees it as a load, and as such the very act of measuring the clock speed prevents it from downclocking to low power / idle / sleep state.
Check it with Ryzen Master.
Check it with Ryzen Master.
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I've tried cycling through all of them and it doesn't change. Only going to power plan halves the speed...
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No regrets at all.
On mine, there's a rather big button in Bios with XMP on it. Just click it and done.
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Zero regrets. None. At all.
I wasn't that happy with the first gen when trying to OC, so many teething issues, and settings randomly being lost for memory etc. But performance wise, it still delivered.
If I am honest about it, I didn't need to upgrade my 1600. I just wanted to. It is still kicking ass for my daughter in her machine, and will likely be paired with my RTX 2060 very soon, and I have zero complaints about it supporting that GPU very well.
The Ryzen 3600 I'm running is fantastic. Decent single core perf, incredible multi-core perf. Awesome value.
Unless you have a requirement that suits the Intel chip specifically, I can't really recommend the Intel chips right now unless you just want to burn money.
I wasn't that happy with the first gen when trying to OC, so many teething issues, and settings randomly being lost for memory etc. But performance wise, it still delivered.
If I am honest about it, I didn't need to upgrade my 1600. I just wanted to. It is still kicking ass for my daughter in her machine, and will likely be paired with my RTX 2060 very soon, and I have zero complaints about it supporting that GPU very well.
The Ryzen 3600 I'm running is fantastic. Decent single core perf, incredible multi-core perf. Awesome value.
Unless you have a requirement that suits the Intel chip specifically, I can't really recommend the Intel chips right now unless you just want to burn money.
It isn't stable if I just hit XMP, that's the point.
It’s been fine for me on just XMP, and also overclocked/tweaked with XMP. Weirdly overclocked but without XMP it wasn’t stable, probably some of the settings that are on auto have a different value with XMP, which results in stability, than without.
I did have to read up a bit on memory to fine tune my overclock, and sure there are more settings to tweak compared to my Intel X58, but those are only applicable for extreme tuning I suppose.
AMD killing it. Went from a 3930k to 3700X after years of boring Intel releases. Don't regret it at all, will move back to Intel next if they take the top spot but I hope AMD stay up there - Also want them to come back hard in the GPU market too and with a 3070 being a 2080Ti killer I think Nvidia know something...