ASRock motherboard Ryzen overclocking issue

[mrplt]

Hi, 

I recently built an AMD system with ASRock X470 Master SLI/ac. I have no problems with the system so far, and I had no problems overclocking the RAM. I wanted to overclock the CPU as well just to see how big of a difference it'd make. 

I went into the UEFI, and changed OC Mode setting from Auto to Manual, and went with 4Ghz and 1.3V, which apparently wasn't ideal as it crashed in the middle of Cinebench. So I went back to UEFI and changed the OC setting back to Auto, saved and restarted the system. Task manager still showed 4Ghz, I didn't try another stress test, went back to UEFI and changed the manual settings to 3.4Ghz and default voltage, and switched the OC Mode to Auto again. I restarted the system, and the base speed is at 3.4Ghz again. But the processor always runs at 3.7Ghz, which it didn't in the first place.

I can tell the OC setting is still at "manual" mode (even though I chose Auto) as task manager shows the base speed at 3.39Ghz and not 3.4Ghz. (When I first tried changing the settings, I just switched OC mode to manual and left the voltage and frequency at stock, that's when I got 3.39Ghz for the first time) 

Has anyone experienced a similar thing?

Thanks! 

[glenalz81]

Load your optimised defaults in the BIOS, then get either HWMonitor or HWInfo64 and use one of  those to monitor your CPU.

 

You can't trust task manager.

[mrplt]

Just now, glenalz81 said:

Load your optimised defaults in the BIOS, then get either HWMonitor or HWInfo64 and use one of  those to monitor your CPU.

 

You can't trust task manager.

 I will do that! I also have HWMonitor installed, it shows the same stats.

[nick name]

Don't use HWmonitor with Ryzen.  HWiNFO gives the correct readings and Ryzen Master will too.  

 

You should check in your Windows power plan settings for what Minimum Processor State is set to.  It needs to be a value less than 50% to allow for the CPU to reach all its p-states and that is required for it to reach its highest and lowest speeds.  You can use any power plan you'd like as long as Minimum Processor State is below 50%.  I use Ultimate Performance and 20%.  

[Berfs1]

You should use CPU-Z for detecting the CPU and RAM frequencies, as well as primary RAM timings, and number of cores enabled. Voltage monitoring, don't use CPU-Z as it is not always accurate, especially when Extreme Mode is enabled. Use CPU-Z to not only check for CPU frequency, but BCLK and multiplier as well.

[nick name]

2 hours ago, Berfs1 said:

You should use CPU-Z for detecting the CPU and RAM frequencies, as well as primary RAM timings, and number of cores enabled. Voltage monitoring, don't use CPU-Z as it is not always accurate, especially when Extreme Mode is enabled. Use CPU-Z to not only check for CPU frequency, but BCLK and multiplier as well.

HWiNFO is more useful for this as it's all displayed concurrently.  

[kidroc666]

turn off pbo and c states bro its locking the clock speed!!

[Berfs1]

22 hours ago, nick name said:

HWiNFO is more useful for this as it's all displayed concurrently.  

Yeah, but it does use more CPU, what I was saying is its a basic tool that can show most of your info (there is a clocks tab at the bottom of CPU-Z which can show additional clock speeds). Generally speaking, I believe you should use whichever application(s) you are most comfortable with.

[mrplt]

So I had to remove the CMOS battery as the computer wouldn't post with RAMs overclocked to 3200Mhz, so as I did that I ended up changing everything back to default. That ended up solving my issue.