3600 4.6GHZ
3600 4.6GHZ
I know it sounds a little too clickbait, but I'm actually running 4.6, which is way above the usual 4.3 marks on most reviews. Can you check my picture and see if something looks wrong? Also, what products or tests can I use to really prove it works right, and what should I watch out for?
Oh. The long answer lol. You've got a Ryzen, not an Intel. They're totally different, don't work the same way, and you shouldn't expect them to behave the same way either. You're used to Intel, where their temps feel normal, they have overclocking (OC), and they boost up automatically for everything. Intel sets a ceiling and pushes the processor all the way there whenever it can. So if your base speed is 3.4GHz but turbo is 3.9GHz, then when you move the mouse or play games, it will hit that 3.9GHz limit and keep going until you reach 100°C. At that point, Intel turns down the power to save itself from overheating. But Ryzen can also get hot at 100°C too. They just don't want to do that ever, no matter what cooler you have attached to them. So their boost is all up or down depending on how cool things are. If temps and voltages allow, they'll go as high as possible on the minimum number of cores available.
Please don't use HWMonitor because it isn't very reliable for Ryzen chips. Instead, try using HWInfo (with just the sensors) along with a tool like Ryzen Master. That combination is known to be pretty accurate. 4.6GHz is actually not that hard to get; you can easily do that with PBO set to level 3 or 4. What is really hard though is getting stable PBO levels at 3 or 4 without needing lots of cooling and good VRM temperature control. You won't see those speeds on full load either, and neither will you see 1.1v and 4.6GHz staying steady across all cores. Most people only manage to get 4.2GHz or 4.3GHz at 1.3v or higher during Prime95 small FFT tests. According to the temps (which might be a bit off), you are probably just at idle load, which is totally different from being stable under full stress. You will almost certainly crash after just a few minutes of any stress test.