Ryzen 5 2600 stuck at 2.8ghz?

[Bradguin121]

Hey,

So I've had my R5 2600 a little over a week now and I've been having issues in games ever since I made the jump from a Pentium G4560. In games I've been getting major lag spikes and stuttering. I was curious as to why this was happening, because it never happened with my G4560 and moving to the R5 2600 I thought should have been hell of a jump in performance. So I downloaded some tools (MSI AfterBurner, CPUZ) and noticed my CPU's clock speed is at 2.8ghz and the voltage was at 0.85! The stock speed advertised is 3.4ghz with a 'boost' to 3.9ghz.

I did some searching on Google and I can't seem to find a whole lot. I did see one guy say to reset the CMOS and reseat the RAM on the board, so I tried that to no avail.

Other things I've tried:
Updating the BIOS
Going to an older BIOS build
Using default BIOS settings
Updated all my drivers

Only thing I haven't really delved into is trying to sort it manually in the BIOS. I've never overclocked in my life and don't have a clue how to. Would that be the only option I have? I don't even know how capable my board is when it comes to messing about with voltages etc...

If anybody can help it'd be greatly appreciated

Specs:

R5 2600 w/ Stock cooler
ASUS PRIME B450M-K
16GB Corsair Vengence RAM
GTX 1060 3GB
120GB Kingston SSD
1TB WD 7200 HDD
Corsair GS600w PSU

 

[CuriousTomCat]

Check the heatsink is properly fitted. What is your CPU temperature at idle?

 

[Bradguin121]

Check the heatsink is properly fitted. What is your CPU temperature at idle?

It's seated properly, idle temp is usually around 30-32C

 

[MasterOC]

Fully load the CPU and it'll climb , likely in a stepping of power savings atm. seems normal

 

[Bradguin121]

Fully load the CPU and it'll climb , likely in a stepping of power savings atm. seems normal

I'm running Prime95 as we speak and the max clock so far is 2800mhz, it's been running for about half an hour now

 

[Plec]

I'm running Prime95 as we speak and the max clock so far is 2800mhz, it's been running for about half an hour now

*Prime95 as soon as it's initiated should make it spike immediately.

I would try clearing your CMOS again and load optimised defaults (forget memory settings).

Load up Windows, check. If it works re-set your memory - check again.

If all that fails i would consider flashing to the latest BIOS (via EZ Flash not windows)

 

[MaXxBoulton]

I'm running Prime95

as said,
step 1, in any problem solving is reset bios (all settings) ALLLLLL, uninstalls all the overclocking crap you have installed(we all have it)
step 2, are you running the latest bios, if not why not?

 

[Bradguin121]

as said,
step 1, in any problem solving is reset bios (all settings) ALLLLLL, uninstalls all the overclocking crap you have installed(we all have it)
step 2, are you running the latest bios, if not why not?

I do have the latest installed now. I did before to, but I reverted back to the one before the latest one to see if it would fix the problem. It didn't.

 

[d_brennen]

Check your power settings in Windows too.

 

[MaXxBoulton]

install CPUz and take a screen shot please

 

[Double07]

This happened to me, check your power profile in windows settings and make sure its not set on power saving as this will limit it more than likely. I just made a custom profile and go into the advanced settings and change the CPU to the something like



That should solve any power related throlttling whilst allowing it to drop back when its not under any load. If its not that then I'm out of ideas

 

[MadMatty]

If you install the Ryzen chipset drivers you should have a Ryzen power profile to select as well in power options.

 

[Double07]

If you install the Ryzen chipset drivers you should have a Ryzen power profile to select as well in power options.

Ill need to have a look as i think i did and i dont have one but ill check cause im known to be useless!

 

[muon]

Bios cpu voltage definitely on auto?

 

[DarkHorizon472]

Do you have any software installed relating to overclocking that is causing this ?

Also check in bios what the reported cpu speed is. If this is correct it suggests a windows issue.

 

[Hemphiz]

If you install the Ryzen chipset drivers you should have a Ryzen power profile to select as well in power options.

This! I was pulling my hair out. My overclock settings would not stick... After doing this my Pc gained its 6th gear. Cheers man. Top dog