Ryzen not down clocking

[MaXxBoulton]

as with a lot of people i have a ryzen CPU thast wants to run full power all the time.
i thought i had sorted this on one system but nope back at full clocks all the time.

1700x / 1700 / 3600, none overclocked

all have chipset drivers installed and all on ryzen power plan

this is about 40mins just on the web and shopping

 

[lord filbuster]

What are the voltages like? The minimum power draw is very similar to my 3600, and that is definitely downclocking. I remember seeing somewhere that HWmon doesn't read ryzen 2 clocks very well. If I use AMD ryzen master instead the minimum clocks I see are around 400-700mhz, but they never drop below 2.5GHz ish on HWmon.

 

[MaXxBoulton]

What are the voltages like? The minimum power draw is very similar to my 3600, and that is definitely downclocking. I remember seeing somewhere that HWmon doesn't read ryzen 2 clocks very well. If I use AMD ryzen master instead the minimum clocks I see are around 400-700mhz, but they never drop below 2.5GHz ish on HWmon.

i will install master now, CPUz doesn't show a drop ever.

 

[MaXxBoulton]

AMD ryzen master

yep spot on, down clocking as it should be.

 

[Destination]

Issue in software, good it works as intended

 

[muon]

No one should be using hwmonitor. It is a piece of crap and has never worked for Ryzen even though it's been 3 years now. You also can't trust the temps as it doesn't give the true tdie temperature always.

Always use HWInfo. Ryzen Master is fine but isn't as detailed.

https://www.hwinfo.com/download/

Here is an example post of someone using Hwinfo for analysis.

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/33565734/

The clocks information is equally as detailed.

 

[MaXxBoulton]

No one should be using hwmonitor. It is a piece of crap and has never worked for Ryzen even though it's been 3 years now. You also can't trust the temps as it doesn't give the true tdie temperature always.

Always use HWInfo. Ryzen Master is fine but isn't as detailed.

https://www.hwinfo.com/download/

Here is an example post of someone using Hwinfo for analysis.

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/33565734/

The clocks information is equally as detailed.

in that case problem not solved, HwInfo shows the CPU is not down clocking

 

[muon]

in that case problem not solved, HwInfo shows the CPU is not down clocking

Those effective clocks look pretty low to me.

Leave it to idle for a bit and you will notice the power consumption is <20w. That is the correct power saving behaviour.

 

[Destination]

Did you miss the point where he said HWinfo doesn't work?
Then you said, opps, HW info doesn't work.
Now you're saying ryzen master works.
and then again HW info doesn't work.

So.….

 

[muon]

Did you miss the point where he said HWinfo doesn't work?
Then you said, opps, HW info doesn't work.
Now you're saying ryzen master works.
and then again HW info doesn't work.

So.….

Hwinfo does work. Hwmonitor is not Hwinfo.

It confuses a lot of people. Hwinfo is the best monitoring software for Ryzen.

 

[Destination]

I apologise!

 

[kitfit1]

Hwinfo does work. Hwmonitor is not Hwinfo.

It confuses a lot of people. Hwinfo is the best monitoring software for Ryzen.

Call it by it's full name and there shouldn't be any confusion at all.

HWiNFO64..................................works like a dream and has done since Ryzen launch.
There was a time early in Ryzen 2 when the polling time was wrong, but that has been long sorted now.

 

[muon]

Call it by it's full name and there shouldn't be any confusion at all.

HWiNFO64..................................works like a dream and has done since Ryzen launch.
There was a time early in Ryzen 2 when the polling time was wrong, but that has been long sorted now.

True. Only reason I don't is because there is a 32bit version.

For the OP here is a nice post from the author of HWinfo on what the effective clock metric is.

https://www.hwinfo.com/forum/threads/effective-clock-vs-instant-discrete-clock.5958/

 

[Panos]

in that case problem not solved, HwInfo shows the CPU is not down clocking

Seems fine to me. 3.3Ghz is the "low" end clock, and it doesn't use more electricity than if it was 1000mhz.

 

[kitfit1]

True. Only reason I don't is because there is a 32bit version.

For the OP here is a nice post from the author of HWinfo on what the effective clock metric is.

https://www.hwinfo.com/forum/threads/effective-clock-vs-instant-discrete-clock.5958/

True, but let's face it how many hands would you need to count the total number of peeps still running a 32bit OS on this forum ? I'd hazzard a guess at less than 2............................maybe we could start a thread to prove it

 

[MaXxBoulton]

Did you miss the point where he said HWinfo doesn't work?
Then you said, opps, HW info doesn't work.
Now you're saying ryzen master works.
and then again HW info doesn't work.

So.….

so....

 

[MaXxBoulton]

Those effective clocks look pretty low to me.

Leave it to idle for a bit and you will notice the power consumption is <20w. That is the correct power saving behaviour.

yer i was reading it wrong, i was looking at the for minimum "Core (0/1/2/3/4/5) Clock"

 

[timmy222]

CPUID MONITOR is to blame, it told me I had the fastest Ryzen 2600x in the known galaxy running stupid speeds.
The 64 ver is pukker.