Ryzen 7 clock speeds

[Ivan Inkoustek]

Hello, I have a Ryzen 7 2700 (non X), 16GB 2666MHz RAM and an ASUS ROG STRIX B450-F MB and I've just noticed something odd with my clock speed. While looking at friends' PC's with same motherboard and similar Ryzens, their clock speeds are variable and move between the base and boost speed. but mine stays at 3,4GHz no matter the load. I have good cooling (BeQuiet DR4) and don't have problems with temperature, so what could cause this?

Maybe a setting in the bios I missed, or low RAM speed? Any suggestions are appreciated.

[adm0n]

How are you checking the clock speeds? Taskmanager has some problems with this. So if you want to check how fast your CPU is actually running, check out ryzen master from AMD

[Ivan Inkoustek]

Ryzen master says the same thing +- 25MHz

[Ivan Inkoustek]

screenshot from HwMonitor

[SorryBella]

54 minutes ago, Ivan Inkoustek said:

mine stays at 3,4GHz no matter the load

Whats your PSU? my 2600 also had this clock stuck issue.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Set a vcore of 1.4v with medium/no llc and see what kinda freq you can get on all cores, should be able to get somewhere around 4.1-4.2ghz on all cores

[Ivan Inkoustek]

1 minute ago, SorryClaire said:

Whats your PSU? my 2600 also had this clock stuck issue.

Corsair RM650x 650 watt, should be more than enough with only a 1660ti

[Ivan Inkoustek]

2 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Set a vcore of 1.4v with medium/no llc and see what kinda freq you can get on all cores, should be able to get somewhere around 4.1-4.2ghz on all cores

Thanks, I did get 3.8GHz earlier in Ryzen Master, so I will try that. But I am more interested in the refresh rate being variable.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Just now, Ivan Inkoustek said:

Thanks, I did get 3.8GHz earlier in Ryzen Master, so I will try that. But I am more interested in the refresh rate being variable.

Idk about you but id be interested in more performance over very minor power savings at idle

 

And besides if you want efficiency just lower the vcore to 1.35/1.3 or set no llc so itll droop under load

[Ivan Inkoustek]

4 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Idk about you but id be interested in more performance over very minor power savings at idle

 

And besides if you want efficiency just lower the vcore to 1.35/1.3 or set no llc so itll droop under load

if you say power savings will be minimal then im willing to try, but im not very confident with overclocking manually just because of stability and possible harm, thats the main reason for trying to fix the "auto-clocking"

[Somerandomtechyboi]

48 minutes ago, Ivan Inkoustek said:

but im not very confident with overclocking manually just because of stability and possible harm

Manual/static should be more stable than dynamic consideering there isnt multiple voltages and a curve or whatever

 

And some newer ryzens go upto 1.5v stock for 1 or 2 core boost

 

You wont see minor degradation till around 1.5v afaik and you are well into diminishing returns at that volt so there really isnt any reason to go past 1.4v, and you dont want max llc so youll  be looking at vdroop to 1.36 or maybe 1.32 if you go for no llc

[Beerzerker]

1.4v's is too high for normal use - You shoudn't have to go any higher than 1.30v's, if that much for daily useage.
The chip will run cooler and not be thermally stressed as much under load if ran with 1.30v's or less if possible.

I'd only use 1.40v's IF I had to, that's really considered to be too much under normal useage conditions. You'll have to experiement to see what the chip needs and go from there.
As long as the system is stable and temps are within spec UNDER LOAD, you're fine with whatever your testing reveals.

[Ivan Inkoustek]

42 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Manual/static should be more stable than dynamic consideering there isnt multiple voltages and a curve or whatever

Yeah, this makes sense. I will try to go above my previous 3.8GHz goal to 4.0, though I agree with @Beerzerker about 1.4 beeing a little much for just daily use... Then again, 1.3 seems to be enough on some 2700s to reach 4GHz anyways.

 

Thank you for time and suggestions.

[Beerzerker]

I'm thinking 1.27v's should run 4GHz fine, my 2700x can do that all day long without complaint because it has before.

[Ivan Inkoustek]

On 5/25/2023 at 12:35 AM, Beerzerker said:

I'm thinking 1.27v's should run 4GHz fine, my 2700x can do that all day long without complaint because it has before.

no way, from my experience in ryzen master im lucky to get to 3.8 at 1.3 or 1.35, so either my silicon lottery was a loss, or ryzen master is not very good for this... but since i can't get it working on windows 11, i can't really verify it