Ryzen5 1600x temperature and voltage fluctuating

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Note: I have included the solution which worked for me solving this issue without returning any parts or changing overclock settings in bios

 

also quick note : updating bios did not make a diffence at all

 

I bought a ryzen 5 1600x almost a week ago, with these other parts;

 

asus x370 prime pro motherboard 

gigabyte wind force gtx 960 4gb

riotoro 500w builder edition psu

hyperx DDR4 2400mhz

kingston 128gb ssd

 

i noticed that my cpu would first give me a clock_watchdog_timeout  BSOD error, so I re installed windows to latest build though media creation tool. The crashes (which the screens display was static on what was being displayed before the crash and would have to be click the reset/restart button in case to fix this) had gone. 

 

The next issue was was I noticed the cpu runs at 3.7hhz but would fluctuate between that and 2.2, but also i would notice that the temps would spike, from 30 degrees it was instantly spike to 60 degrees I had seen the max For about a second. The voltage also fluctuated from 0.8v to 1.45v

 

after a stressful period of around 3-4 days, I read how disabling “amd Cool’n’Quiet” would help, however I couldn’t find this in the bios.. so I downloaded ryzen power plan though the install of amd chipset driver . This made the clock speed stable at 3.7ghz (bearing in mind I had never overclockrd the cpu or any other component and they were all at stock settings) . The temps would still fluctuate and so would the voltage.

 

so after only yesterday , I had found “c states” setting. I had seen this before when I had the clock_watchdog bsod issue, I disabled this and it didn’t make a difference to that issue, however to my understanding , disabling c-states setting seemed to have behaved how people with simillar fluctuations issue describe how disabling Cool’n’Quiet works...

 

it worked!

 

i went into windows, the temps and voltage were stable. Still at 3.7ghz, however as long as I’m  not getting 1.45v in idle (LOL yes that’s what I would get on idle) I was fine with this new stable 1.25v max voltage @ 3.7gh

 

The cinebench r20 score from before and after are ;

 

before turning off c-state :2731

 

after turning off c-state: 2676

 

not much of a drastic difference.. but the cpu seems to run much more stable now 

 

hope this helps.. btw don’t order any new coolers lol. I was using a stock amd stealth  cooler (the small heatsink one) and then I bought a 95w rated tdp amd spire cooler with cooler core .. didn’t make much of a diffwnce but idle temps seem better by about 3-7 degrees with the spire

 

Hope this helps someone ..