Possible unintentional overclocking

[pacothegoon]

Hello all, my first post here about my first build which i have no idea how this happened. 

specs:

Ryzen 7 5800x 

msi b550 tomahawk 

AIO Nzxt Z73

msi 3070 

 

So i had just finished installing all my drivers, updates, and updated my bios to the latest (not the beta) build. I also enabled XMP and turned precision boost overdrive to auto and then eventually off. When I went to download NZXT CAM, to control the lighting on the AIO then i’m not sure when, how, or what I touched on the CAM app but all of sudden my temps rose to a steady 58 degrees fahrenheit. They were at a stable 30 ish 40 before this and my fans cranked all the way up and i check on task manager and hold behold my cpu is clocking in at 4.7ghz. Does anyone know how i can get it back to the normal base clock speeds? I tried uninstalling the cam app, making a new profile and reverting back to those, turning off xmp, and “removing” the cmos battery and still nothing. i’m afraid to start gaming on it because i don’t think my motherboard  could handle the high clock rate and temps. Does anyone know any other way to lower my clock rates back to the basic out of the box rates? Everytime i check the bios it says it’s running at 3.8 ghz when in reality it isn’t. 

 

Please and Thank you 

 

[Craftyawesome]

4.7 GHz is the rated boost clock of the 5800x, so that's fine. The question is why is it boosting when near idle? 10% CPU usage seems like a lot for desktop. What is using that much?

[Mark Kaine]

4 hours ago, Craftyawesome said:

4.7 GHz is the rated boost clock of the 5800x, so that's fine. The question is why is it boosting when near idle? 10% CPU usage seems like a lot for desktop. What is using that much?

 

17 hours ago, pacothegoon said:

NZXT CAM

 Uninstall it. Reboot PC and check again. Use taskmanager or CPUZ,  or Hwinfo64 

[pacothegoon]

Thanks for the reply and reassurance about the boost clock rate. I was really stressing about clock rate. But I checked TaskManager and I suppose it was the fact that I was downloading some games on the blizzard battle.net app and nzxt running that was making my cpu spike so much. I figured that was the case because after the was done the cpu temps went down and i was averaging 55-60 degrees while playing my first game on the system. I’m not sure if that was what was causing the spike at such a low load. 

[pacothegoon]

1 hour ago, Mark Kaine said:

 

 Uninstall it. Reboot PC and check again. Use taskmanager or CPUZ,  or Hwinfo64 

Thank you for the advise I will for sure download and use those programs. I’m not sure how or why cam did that, everytime i boot the pc it works fine but as soon as i open that app all the fans rev up. Thank you once again!