2600X Overboost?

CPT_BEEMO · November 4, 2019

Good morning everyone!

After playing a game of overwatch, I opened up HWMONITOR and noticed the processor maxxed out at 5.6ghz, I have seen other scenarios where it has exceeded 5ghz but by a small margin. When in First turn the computer on and let it boot up, after all start-up programs have launched it will also not go down to 2.2ghz at idle like it used to. The chip typically stays anywhere within 3.8-4.2ghz at idle. I have done a fresh windows install since then (had a SSD failure, replaced and reinstalled windows). Bios is up to date, v.5220 on a x470-f strix board, RAM at 3200mhz. Chipset drivers installed directly from AMD

Anyone have any ideas?

Deli · November 4, 2019

HWmonitor isn't working well with Ryzen. Use Ryzen Master or HWinfo instead.

CPT_BEEMO · November 4, 2019

Just now, Deli said:

HWmonitor isn't working well with Ryzen. Use Ryzen Master or HWinfo instead.

I appreciate that feedback, thank you.

Now on a side note, If I open up task manager and compare the readings to hwmonitor, with the 5.6 spike aside the cpu still sits anywhere between 3.8 and 4.2ghz with less than 10% utilization. It used to go down to 2.2 at this kind of utilization but I dont know what is causing it to stay at max boost at all times.

Deli · November 4, 2019

8 minutes ago, CPT_BEEMO said:

I appreciate that feedback, thank you.

Now on a side note, If I open up task manager and compare the readings to hwmonitor, with the 5.6 spike aside the cpu still sits anywhere between 3.8 and 4.2ghz with less than 10% utilization. It used to go down to 2.2 at this kind of utilization but I dont know what is causing it to stay at max boost at all times.

Task manager probably reporting the highest clock speed of the busiest working core. Ryzen Master is the most reliable for monitoring the CPU. Can be one core busying doing background stuffs. Although I find Ryzen is odd/different from the Intel CPUs I used in the past.

New Windows update can do weird stuffs sometimes.