Confused

[Cornish]

I noticed that my Ryzen 2600 was pegged at 3.8Ghz on all cores even when idle so had a look about to see why this was and it turned out it was because of the Windows power management set to high performance so it was always running the CPU at 100%, even when not needed. I changed it down to balanced with max CPU still set to 100% and then played some games not thinking to close HWMonitor. I've not overclocked the processor at all (though may have precision boost on in the bios) and am just using a stock cooler with MX-4 thermal compound and saw that all bar one of the cores had gone over 4GHz and 2 of them had peaked at over 4.3GHz! All the while the temperature didn't breach 72C... This is where my confusion sets in, I've seen lots of people saying that even with OC and bumping up the voltage they are only getting up to 4.2GHz max. Have I just been extremely lucky in the silicon lottery?

 

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[Quickstrike]

OC on Ryzen is notoriously all over the place. For instance My Ryzen 7 1800X didn't overclock 1%... I had to downclock my 3200 RAM to 3000 to be stable.

So congratz, You won the silicon lottery!
I would put a better cooler on that puppy ASAP however to keep it from degrading.

[paddy-stone]

Maybe they were OCing on all cores. Whereas you are using boost which will boost one/two cores as needed to a higher freq... for example if I run cinebench that's a multi threaded workload, my cores all only go upto 4GHz approx, then in normal operation I get approx 4.25Ghz max on one/two cores.

But yes appears that you got a good unit if it'll go that high.