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^ this * 1000 I should have been able to accept the factory settings on the motherboard and had the chip boost without having to change any settings. The fact that the chip was stuck at its base clock without turning on PBO through Ryzen Master is a bit of a joke. I've been developing software professionally over 20 years and played with Hardware off and on during that time and I have never had a pain in the ass setup as bad as this just getting something to work the way that it should out of the box. I can't help but to think of all the people that would be just capable enough to put a computer together and then just let it sit there at the factory settings of a 3.6 gigahertz base clock. Sorry for all the edits in advance doing this from a phone and voice-to-text is nowhere close to where it needs to be. ?

I do still see AMD Ryzen Master pumping 1.4v+ (not constant though) to individual processors. I'm starting to wonder if AMD actually changed the specs. I mean if MOBO manufacturers are setting them up this way and even with AMDs own software doing it, it can't be that bad o_O. I know it isn't totally constant but...

Yeah, I did have to unset the settings you shared though as for some very weird reason it couldn't keep up with my mouse! O_O it started intermittently stalling and jumping. One of those settings or the combo just kills the USB somehow. (Wireless mouse)

Oh and I grabbed the latest chipset drivers from AMD.

So the only way I was able to get my CPU to act normal (you know a variable clock speed) was downloading Ryzen Master after a bios (almost full reset as I'm running raid) and enabling PBO. Doing it through the bios was just not working properly. I can get 4.35 all core @ 1.35v using AMD overclocking however in the bios. The MSI game boost is a joke. Simply a 4.2ghz all core OC, auto OC in Ryzen Master is pretty good as well. I just don't think Windows was properly listening to some of the BIOS settings or something. Weird.

Okay, so now my temps are great but I lost 1000 points on Cinebench R20 and my chip doesn't boost at all. Simply sits at 3.6ghz all core and doesn't budge.

Okay, done I will see what the performance is like now. I don't want to give up too much. If a chip lasts me a year but kicks ass for that year I'm cool with that. I'll buy another.

Thank you sir. I will check in the morning. Long day at work, then cable mod cables, now dead. Lol.

BTW running MSI Carbon Pro Wifi X570 MB

Well I updated the BIOS when I got it because I could not run RAID 0 on my nvme drives and overclock with the existing bios the update fixed that but I will check to see if there was another update.

For instance, I just turned off my all core OC and went with stock MSI game boost, which is a much less aggressive OC @ 4.2ghz all core and it hit 81c running Cinibench R20. With my settings it hit 77c (these are updated from last time as I was only running at 4.33) max after hammering it for 45 min. I ran it twice with MSIs settings and hit 82c.

Here is the stock non OC core voltage. 1.37v so why do you say I'm running too high?

Well considering it was running at 4v before stock and idling at around 56c and now is running idle around 36c and stable, I cant really drop the voltage without killing the stability of the OC. Suggestions? BTW it is for the most part done. Still need one more fan for the top. Yes I realize that the glass is a bit smudged. I'll clean it next time I open it.

^ See post above ^ Actually I was able to eke quite a bit out of an all core overclock.

I figured it out (hint: it's the factory motherboard voltage). See: