CPU always running at extremly high frequency

[STEUSSO]

Hi,
I got a Ryzen 7 5800X and it's running always at top clock speed and I don't know why. I'm worried about its health and the damages it could cause, can you guys help me and enlight me on this subject ? Is it normal ? excessive ? and what should I do ?

It has always been that way, and even after fresh restarts (reinstalling windows) it's still the same. Like when windows is absolutely naked, it runs at 4.2 GHz at 0% usage.
I'm worried
I even changed the motherboard, and I guess this excludes all kind of overclocking (which I didn't do) because it's been the same before and after the switch.
Please help

[Hinjima]

17 minutes ago, STEUSSO said:

Hi,
I got a Ryzen 7 5800X and it's running always at top clock speed and I don't know why. I'm worried about its health and the damages it could cause, can you guys help me and enlight me on this subject ? Is it normal ? excessive ? and what should I do ?

It has always been that way, and even after fresh restarts (reinstalling windows) it's still the same. Like when windows is absolutely naked, it runs at 4.2 GHz at 0% usage.
I'm worried
I even changed the motherboard, and I guess this excludes all kind of overclocking (which I didn't do) because it's been the same before and after the switch.
Please help

Absolutely nothing to worry about   Your CPU is completely fine as long as temperatures are good.

My CPU's are doing the same.

[RONOTHAN##]

46 minutes ago, STEUSSO said:

I got a Ryzen 7 5800X and it's running always at top clock speed and I don't know why

That's normal, it's how the boost system is designed. If anything is happening in the background (Windows Update, monitoring software, even just moving the mouse), it will boost to the maximum clock speed in an attempt to make the system feel as snappy as possible. It's completely safe for the CPU, nothing to worry about. 

[Alex Atkin UK]

2 hours ago, STEUSSO said:

Hi,
I got a Ryzen 7 5800X and it's running always at top clock speed and I don't know why. I'm worried about its health and the damages it could cause, can you guys help me and enlight me on this subject ? Is it normal ? excessive ? and what should I do ?

It has always been that way, and even after fresh restarts (reinstalling windows) it's still the same. Like when windows is absolutely naked, it runs at 4.2 GHz at 0% usage.
I'm worried
I even changed the motherboard, and I guess this excludes all kind of overclocking (which I didn't do) because it's been the same before and after the switch.
Please help

Task manager is useless to know what is actually happening, Ryzen Master will tell you EXACTLY what is going on where its likely only one core is even awake.

[Aleph256]

You might want to right-click on that graph to display threads instead of overall usage.

 

The résumé on the left only provides the frequency of the faster core, not an average - as @RONOTHAN## and @Alex Atkin UK said, it's quite likely you have a single core boosting for background tasks.

[Alex Atkin UK]

7 hours ago, Aleph256 said:

You might want to right-click on that graph to display threads instead of overall usage.

 

The résumé on the left only provides the frequency of the faster core, not an average - as @RONOTHAN## and @Alex Atkin UK said, it's quite likely you have a single core boosting for background tasks.

Plus even viewing logical processors is not that clear, as its a percentage utilisation of the given clock speed of that core.  Although odds are a higher utilisation would mean the core is boosting, but say 20% utilisation it might still be clocking really low so that appears high when its more like 1% in reality.

[STEUSSO]

Thank you all so much for your help. I was a bit worried about this, and I also think that it had some consequences on my fan speed. Again thank you all for your help! (I understood the task manager trick, I'm going to add ryzen master screenshots for my next topics)