Motherboard Software Troubleshooting?

dyerbetes · May 31, 2020

Hello everyone! I recently built a pc with these parts ( https://pcpartpicker.com/list/2ZJh8M ) and everything has been working great. I've been using the scenarios on Dragon Center and I usually keep it on Balanced considering I don't plan on overclocking as of now. Yesterday, I opened up MSI Dragon Center and my cpu freq kept fluctuating between core (3.6) and boost clock (4.1) and the fans kept ramping every 2 minutes under completely no stress. I disabled it on start-up and it stopped (obviously) but then checked my core speeds with CPU-Z and it seems to be underclocked to 2224.5 mHz?? I was wondering if Dragon Center Scenarios are unsafe for the longevity of your computer considering it forces your CPU and SYS fans to run at a higher speed and does something odd to the core speeds or if I'm doing something wrong?

Any feedback would be appreciated!

Bombastinator · May 31, 2020

32 minutes ago, dyerbetes said:

Hello everyone! I recently built a pc with these parts ( https://pcpartpicker.com/list/2ZJh8M ) and everything has been working great. I've been using the scenarios on Dragon Center and I usually keep it on Balanced considering I don't plan on overclocking as of now. Yesterday, I opened up MSI Dragon Center and my cpu freq kept fluctuating between core (3.6) and boost clock (4.1) and the fans kept ramping every 2 minutes under completely no stress. I disabled it on start-up and it stopped (obviously) but then checked my core speeds with CPU-Z and it seems to be underclocked to 2224.5 mHz?? I was wondering if Dragon Center Scenarios are unsafe for the longevity of your computer considering it forces your CPU and SYS fans to run at a higher speed and does something odd to the core speeds or if I'm doing something wrong?

Any feedback would be appreciated!

I dunno bupkis about dragon center. AMD GPUs are famous for messing with their own clock speed though.

Your computer wouldn’t behave differently though unless something changed, which means something did. Knowing what changed could help a lot.
It’s also possible something obnoxious was running in the background. Like a mining Trojan hitting your gpu.