It downclocks and sleeps with changed multiplier ok, still would be livid if wouldn't see any 4.6 boost at all in your case. Running mine manual 4375 atm cause it is cooler (35-47 light use,54 gaming), as you learning about your cpu voltage etc, defo could tune it a bit, but thinking about: absolute max performance would be to check how far pbo would take it and leave on boosting over 4.4(should be over 4.6 with 3900x), would be hotter no doubt.I still haven't figured out PBO and overclocking on my 3900x, but got my ram running happy at 3600C16. Been waiting for better guides and updated BIOS (currently on AGESA 1.0.0.3AB) and monitoring tools, all a bit confusing at the moment. Ryzen master seems to be the only reliable monitoring tool that shows the true core states.
With PBO the highest I've seen my 3900x boost is ~4.3Ghz and all cores loaded seems to sit at ~4.1Ghz. Ryzen master shows it is down-clocking and sleeping cores when idle, using ryzen balanced power plan. Load temps are 65-70 degrees, idle seems to be all over the place 45-60 degrees. This is just on air cooling, reckon I've got some headroom so far as temps are concerned. Load CPU volts around 1.35-1.375 and idle is 1.40-1.48. Almost looks like it runs better under load....
Seems the preferred route is an all core overclock to about 4.3Ghz, does this still down clock / sleep cores when idle? Would like to see single cores hitting 4.6Ghz+ is this possible by tweaking the PBO settings, maybe need to up the power limits? What about IF overclocking, does this offer greater performance gains? Not sure how to overclock Infinity Fabric think I can probably get my ram up to 3800C17 if IF clock go 1:1 at 1900.