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Questions on Ryzen 9 Speed Stepping

Aremis
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I'm currently trying to diagnose some thermal weirdness with my new PC build, and I'm suspecting that its my motherboard, but I have some questions on Ryzen turbo's and speed stepping.

 

A little pre-amble, my background has mostly been prebuilds and working on them and making them perform really well.  So a lot of intel chips, even though I really like the AMD chips, I just haven't been able to afford one until recently.  So, I expect some sort of speed stepping from AMD, right?  Well currently my processor is bouncing between 3.77GHz at 0.996-1.42V and jumping up to 4.5GHz.  If I turn turbo off I have none of these problems and my thermals don't climb.  Currently my PC isn't doing anything, its really just idling with vivaldi open as I type this out.  My motherboard is a gigabyte X470 Aorus Ultra Gaming, F42G bios.  Has anyone else had this happen?

 

Other thing is I'm fine with having turbo off, 3.2 GHz is honestly the fastest speed I get on a processor most of the time so 3.8 seems fine to me, but is it supposed to rest at 3.79GHz constantly?  That seems weird to me.

 

Any pointers are helpful, thanks.

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the x470 aorus doesn't have good enough vrms to run a 3900x. so what you're seeing is probably vrms overheating and the throttling. can you monitor temps?

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1 minute ago, boggy77 said:

the x470 aorus doesn't have good enough vrms to run a 3900x. so what you're seeing is probably vrms overheating and the throttling. can you monitor temps?

Even with turbo on VRM's rarely get hotter than 46 degrees.

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Still wondering about this.  If its not a thing, ok.  I have the cooling for it.

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On 4/6/2020 at 12:08 PM, Aremis said:

Any pointers are helpful, thanks.

Are you on a Windows high performance power plan? Accidentally disable downclocking/C-states in BIOS?

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16 minutes ago, svmlegacy said:

Are you on a Windows high performance power plan? Accidentally disable downclocking/C-states in BIOS?

Hmmm no but mysteriously the CPU minimum in the power plan is stuck at 99%.  I noticed in one of Paul's video's that his 3900X was stuck at 3.7GHz as well.  I wonder if thats just normal.

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