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I have a Ryzen 7 3700X that I bought 6 years ago, and I have seen a drop in performance. When I got my PC the CPU clocked up to 4,4 GHz and that was enough for me, the guy that built this PC said that I should be happy with its performance. The only thing that I did was turning on XMP (IDK why he didn't do it). Recently (about 6 months ago) I saw a drop in performance and now under load (C24) it clocks up to 4 GHZ. In hopes of fixing the issue, I updated my BIOS and finally moved to WIN 11 and saw the same results. I don't think it's thermal throttling because temperatures stay at around 76C (I did change my 2,5 year paste last week to PTM7950, before it was around 84C). Without load, I do see spikes up to 4,3 GHz in HWiNFO, but they are spontaneous, not on all cores and for a couple seconds. I uninstalled Dragon center and AMD Ryzen Master. Yes, I turned PBO on, and updated to the latest chipset drivers, but the issue doesn't go away. I looked around the internet and could not find any certain answer. Personally I don't want to tinker with voltages and other stuff manually because it worked with automatic settings. I'm not ready for an upgrade yet (maybe on Christmas) and if at all, I'd only upgrade my CPU, GPU and RAM (PSU also...) because my motherboard should still handle newer parts. So, the only answer I found is possible CPU degradation. I read that it's possible and that it's not possible, lol. Not gonna lie, I did game heavy on maxed out settings, so it might be possible that after all these years it gave up. Any ideas what might be the cause?

 

 

PC Parts:

- AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

- RTX 2070 SUPER GAMING OC

- MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI

- Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 (2x8GB)

- SilentiumPC Supremo FM2 Gold 750W

- Corsair Hydro Series H100i PRO CW-9060033-WW

- Samsung 990 PRO 1TB (boot drive)

- Samsung 980 1TB (game drive)

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Without an overclock, or LN2 cooling, the R7 3700X will never clock to 4.4GHz on all cores. In fact, if you have a chip that's capable of being overclocked to 4.4GHz on all cores, then you have a good chip. A lot of Zen 2 CPUs can't do that.

 

I'm guessing you're either mis-remembering, or you're talking about older gaming loads that would have used fewer cores where a 4.4GHz clockspeed on one or two cores was happening.

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Try removing your undervolt and any other tweaks, i.e. BIOS defaults unless really necessary

 

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I had a 3600XT, and it was stable at 4500MHz at 1.325 and 4600MHz at 1.3375v. That was good silicon.

 

PBO is pretty sucky for anything under Zen 3 I think. Static clocks are where its at, if you can keep it cool.

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