CPU not going to boosted frequency.

[AmateurPCGuy]

Title describes what the problem is. Ryzen 5 1500X does not go to 3.7GHz like what its boosted frequency says on the box, it only goes up to the base clock of 3.5. This is consistent throughout the system, whether it be games or Handbrake or something else that taxes on the CPU hard enough.

 

What BIOS setting should I set next? The only settings I touched is setting DOCP to DDR4-2400... that's pretty much it.

[The Sloth]

use HW monitor 

[AmateurPCGuy]

9 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

use HW monitor 

well with HW monitor on, I did two things...

 

one was playing NieR: Automata on max settings with OBS Studio recording in the background... All cores at 3.5 except a couple of moments where one of the cores was at max... and all 4 cores reported that all of them has a max value of 3.7GHz.

 

next was Handbrake. All cores hit 3.5, but none hit 3.7

 

[The Sloth]

2 minutes ago, AmateurPCGuy said:

well with HW monitor on, I did two things...

 

one was playing NieR: Automata on max settings with OBS Studio recording in the background... All cores at 3.5 except a couple of moments where one of the cores was at max... and all 4 cores reported that all of them has a max value of 3.7GHz.

 

next was Handbrake. All cores hit 3.5, but none hit 3.7

 

 

 

clear try clearing cmos 

[AmateurPCGuy]

1 hour ago, nerdslayer1 said:

clear try clearing cmos 

cleared CMOS and frequency now shows 3.7... but now its staying at 3.7GHz... not even going down at all... even at idle.

 

 

[AmateurPCGuy]

@nerdslayer1 just an update: the system getting stuck at 3.7GHz was due to coreclock being set to 38.00 for some reason (never touched it). Putting that back to auto brought me back to step 1: the system never gets out of the base frequency of 3.5GHz.

[Ashleyyyy]

is the windows power management options set to active cooling?

[AmateurPCGuy]

1 minute ago, firelighter487 said:

is the windows power management options set to active cooling?

my power options is set to Balanced, if that's what you're telling me... not Ryzen Balanced but Windows Balanced... I do not have the Ryzen Balanced Power Plan.

[Ashleyyyy]

go to the power settings, then click change power plan, then advanced settings, cpu power management and make sure it's set to 100% max frequency and active cooling.

[The Sloth]

5 hours ago, AmateurPCGuy said:

@nerdslayer1 just an update: the system getting stuck at 3.7GHz was due to coreclock being set to 38.00 for some reason (never touched it). Putting that back to auto brought me back to step 1: the system never gets out of the base frequency of 3.5GHz.

Something really going on, reinstall Windows. 

[TheGleaner]

this seems to be a pattern with amd and me... I had the same issues and it just took me messing around enough to get it to boost, although I still have the issue every now and then

[AmateurPCGuy]

19 hours ago, firelighter487 said:

go to the power settings, then click change power plan, then advanced settings, cpu power management and make sure it's set to 100% max frequency and active cooling.

 

 

like this?

 

18 hours ago, nerdslayer1 said:

Something really going on, reinstall Windows. 

this is a fresh install of windows tho... like a week old

[Ashleyyyy]

yes, but set the minimum processor frequency to 5%. that should stop the system from sitting at 3.7ghz.