Why is my Ryzen 5 3600 running at only 3.59 Ghz when I overclocked it to 4 Ghz?

[StanleyTheHandsome]

Recentky I upgraded my rig and now I have a Ryzen 5 3600, following some guide in the video I overclocked my cpu so that its shows its base clock speed as 4 ghz but it runs almost at 3.6 ghz. Is it because I only got 550 watts psu? I am completly new to the topic so please be gentle.

 

Specs:

MSI x470 gaming max pro

Corsair vengence 3000 mhz 16 gb

Ryzen 53600

corsair VS550

 

Here is a screenshot of cpu-z

 

And here's what my task meneger shows me:

 

[Tristerin]

Task Manager is irrelevant - it never should be used to check Frequency.  Use HWMonitor or Info (or can use CPU-Z like you are) - what is your Windows Power Plan?  If you put it at performance it will force an all core all the time at the OC frequency.  If you are on balanced or below (I think Balanced is inclusive of this, Im not at home to check) it will allow the frequency to throttle down.

 

What does your frequency show as max during a stress test while monitoring with HWMonitor?

[Indus Monk]

You could try to jump into a game... something heavy like GTA5 or Tomb raider, then your CPU should boost

[jaslion]

Your multiplier is only on 36 so you probably made an error there.

[StanleyTheHandsome]

Just now, Indus Monk said:

You could try to jump into a game... something heavy like GTA5 or Tomb raider, then your CPU should boost

I tried to run AC Odyssey but nothing changed

[StanleyTheHandsome]

3 minutes ago, Tristerin said:

Task Manager is irrelevant - it never should be used to check Frequency.  Use HWMonitor or Info (or can use CPU-Z like you are) - what is your Windows Power Plan?  If you put it at performance it will force an all core all the time at the OC frequency.  If you are on balanced or below (I think Balanced is inclusive of this, Im not at home to check) it will allow the frequency to throttle down.

 

What does your frequency show as max during a stress test while monitoring with HWMonitor?

I have power plan on high performence

[StanleyTheHandsome]

3 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Your multiplier is only on 36 so you probably made an error there.

What should it be then?

[Indus Monk]

1 minute ago, StanleyTheHandsome said:

I tried to run AC Odyssey but nothing changed

something is probably wrong with the overclock. Maybe it reset itself? or maybe you didn't apply the OC properly. Just remember to apply a little bit of extra voltage during OC. 

[jaslion]

Just now, StanleyTheHandsome said:

What should it be then?

In your case it should be x40

[Indus Monk]

Just now, StanleyTheHandsome said:

What should it be then?

alternatively... raise it to 40 and raise the voltage to 1.2

[StanleyTheHandsome]

11 minutes ago, Indus Monk said:

alternatively... raise it to 40 and raise the voltage to 1.2

I did as you told me and it works now thank you!

[kirahokuten357]

Sorry for replying here and this might be stupid.

Does showing it as 3.59ghz ok instead of 3.6ghz?

[nate.rocha]

HMMMMMM.... 

 

I have a 3700x, when I first put together the computer I just did the Ryzen software auto overclock thing. Never had any issue, but I did notice that in task manager it is stuck on 3.58 GHZ.  

 

If I check on Ryzen or any other software that isn't the case but for some reason task manager is showing it's locked at 3.58 GHZ.  If I restart it it seems to go away for a bit.. 

 

That's very strange.