Ryzen Clock speed wrong?

[kieran_Austin]

Hello, 

 

When i am trying to overclock my Ryzen 1700 the clock speed shows in HWMonitor and CPU-Z as 1549MHz. But in the bios and on Task manager it shows the 'correct and higher' clock speed. Doesnt matter what i set the clock speeds to, as soon as it is not auto it doesnt display correct value. When i first start the system and load HWMonitor it will show the full clock speed and then instantly go down to 1549MHz. 

I am using the Ryzen R7 1700, MSI X370 Gaming Plus motherboard and 16GB corsair LPX Ram. 

 

Why is this happening? (added screenshot of problem)

Thanks.

[Vedge]

Try putting a load on it and see if it goes up to the correct frequency. You can see that the max frequency it has been at was 3.5, so it's probably in a down clocked power saving state at the picture. 

 

Try restarting HW monitor while under load if it doesn't change

[kieran_Austin]

Just opened up HW monitor and CPU-Z whilest running Cinebench. HWMonitor now says the full clock speed but CPU-Z doesnt. The Cinebench score i got was 572 cb? does that seem low? 

[Jurrunio]

3 minutes ago, kieran_Austin said:

Just opened up HW monitor and CPU-Z whilest running Cinebench. HWMonitor now says the full clock speed but CPU-Z doesnt. The Cinebench score i got was 572 cb? does that seem low? 

It is low. My i5 4460 is a quad core CPU at 3.2Ghz without hyper threading and it scores about 430cb.

[Sir Asvald]

Mine is reported the clock speeds fine? Try a reinstall of the CPU-Z again. 

[WereCat]

8 minutes ago, kieran_Austin said:

Just opened up HW monitor and CPU-Z whilest running Cinebench. HWMonitor now says the full clock speed but CPU-Z doesnt. The Cinebench score i got was 572 cb? does that seem low? 

572 is about 3x less than what it should be.

[kieran_Austin]

As soon as i restore factory defualts in the BIOS the cpu is running at 3200MHZ and i get a Cinebench score of 1384! So why when i overclock does it go down?