Some questions about CPU management

[Aree Soothsayer]

After hearing and reading about cpu's losing their upper tier performance when overclocking just using the standard OC that happens automatically I locked my Ryzen 5 3600 to 3600.

So it stays at 3600 even when idle. While idle would my cpu use less power if that automatic clock manage were enabled or would it be the same.

Just so you know I have a 1050 Ti so gaming wouldn't see any difference even if I overclocked it.

[Panoramix97]

8 minutes ago, Aree Soothsayer said:

After hearing and reading about cpu's losing their upper tier performance when overclocking just using the standard OC that happens automatically I locked my Ryzen 5 3600 to 3600.

So it stays at 3600 even when idle. While idle would my cpu use less power if that automatic clock manage were enabled or would it be the same.

Just so you know I have a 1050 Ti so gaming wouldn't see any difference even if I overclocked it.

Stocks on idle the CPU will lower the clocks to save energy yes.

[RadiatingLight]

Staying at 3.6Ghz at idle is probably using more power than the boost clocks up to the 4-Ghz range when under load. I'd just revert back to factory settings and let the Ryzen boosting algorithm decide.

[WereCatf]

8 minutes ago, Aree Soothsayer said:

After hearing and reading about cpu's losing their upper tier performance when overclocking

???

8 minutes ago, Aree Soothsayer said:

While idle would my cpu use less power if that automatic clock manage were enabled or would it be the same

Yes, it would use less power. That's the whole point of letting the CPU clock down when not needed to run at full blow.

[Haro]

10 hours ago, Aree Soothsayer said:

While idle would my cpu use less power if that automatic clock manage were enabled or would it be the same.

it could be lower, cpu's at idle lower their clocks even below the advertised base clock speeds to save power.

[Cyracus]

I would recommend setting voltage manually around 1.2v (up to 1.3v if cooling allows) and seeing what frequency you can get stable.
The cpu would use a little less power with automatic frequency range, but even with the frequency locked via the multiplier it has power saving features that make it effectively run at lower speeds thus reducing power draw.

[Aree Soothsayer]

5 minutes ago, Panoramix97 said:

Stocks on idle the CPU will lower the clocks to save energy yes.

 

4 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

???

Yes, it would use less power. That's the whole point of letting the CPU clock down when not needed to run at full blow.

 

3 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

it could be lower, cpu's at idle lower their clocks even below the advertised base clock speeds to save power.

Thank you all.