Is my CPU defective?

[Ex14]

Hi guys, after tinkering for a few days, I think it's best I grab a sanity check with the wider internet to see if this behaviour is normal or consistent behaviour for the R5 3600

 

So I finally upgraded my pc to the R5 3600 running 32GB 3200MHz C16 on a Gigabyte Arorus Pro WiFi. Basically the maximum score I ever got on this particular CPU was about 3400 I'm cinebench 20 and that was straight stock from a fresh install running 2133 Ram. Once I start installing the drivers motherboard various, ghub,synapse icue etc) the score dropped to about 3200 even after enabling xmp and turning pbo+AOC on. Tweaking further meant I was only able to net right now a max of 3300 points tops.

 

I'm running this on water (fluid gaming 240 + 360 + gpu) with temps barely touching 71 degrees and the all core frequency around 4-4.05GHz and the single core frequency at peak 4.175GHz (mostly about 4.15 or 4.125GHz)

 

 

So my 2 main questions is 

 

1) do background tasks have the ability to affect cinebench scores by so much ?

 

2) do the scores represent a potentially faulty or underperforming CPU?

 

Thanks in advance for any help or tips or direction you guys can point me in!

[Ex14]

Just now, starcoaster said:

set process priority to realtime and try again. that will make your computer lock up temporarily but it will put cinebench infront of any background processes.

I'll give that a whirl when I get back home!

[Ex14]

16 hours ago, starcoaster said:

set process priority to realtime and try again. that will make your computer lock up temporarily but it will put cinebench infront of any background processes.

Tried it yesterday and I hit 3600 in cinebench. The clocks fluctuating is something I have to get used to for Ryzen I guess. I guess this means processor is okay and background tasks do indeed take up that much resources.

[Travis5151]

I was also surprised by my 3600x and expressed that in another thread.  My cores get to about 4.324 to 4.349.  I saw one once get to 4.38 but that has never happened since.  I also didn't see an improvement in my gaming.  I just ran cinebench with realtime as the process priority and got a 3730 (I'm not sure if that is good or not).  I have the MSI X570A - Pro MB with 3200 Ram.  

 

I am new to all this, so I am likely expecting ignorant sort of things but from the reviews I expected it to outperform the 2700x I had in gaming by quite a bit and thus far it hasn't.

[Ex14]

1 hour ago, Travis5151 said:

I was also surprised by my 3600x and expressed that in another thread.  My cores get to about 4.324 to 4.349.  I saw one once get to 4.38 but that has never happened since.  I also didn't see an improvement in my gaming.  I just ran cinebench with realtime as the process priority and got a 3730 (I'm not sure if that is good or not).  I have the MSI X570A - Pro MB with 3200 Ram.  

 

I am new to all this, so I am likely expecting ignorant sort of things but from the reviews I expected it to outperform the 2700x I had in gaming by quite a bit and thus far it hasn't.

For gaming. Think that's cause they don't actually turbo up that high during gaming additionally, i think the effect is very marginal as it's only a few FPS higher. (I don't think you see much till you hit a 20-30 FPS increase personally)