I believe I've won the silicon lottery.
I believe I've won the silicon lottery.
I discovered my Ryzen 5 3600 running at 4.6GHz and am thrilled, just want to tweak my GPU's clock speed.
Sure, the max boost for the 3600 is 4.2 GHz, even with just one core. I just checked it myself and never exceeded 4.2GHz. It’s unclear why they set 4.6 as the normal range—maybe they’re confusing it with the 5600, which does go up to 4.6GHz. @British_pasta69, your explanation seems a bit off; overclocking should push it higher, but reaching 4.6 on stock performance is unusual.
Initially I relied on task manager, but its precision was limited, so I tried an alternative. I ran tests with Prime95 and OCCT, plus CPUID HWMonitor to verify actual performance gains. It turned out my CPU barely reduced clock speed—it remained close to its base setting even when testing a single thread, as the workload balanced across cores. I achieved around 4175 MHz on all cores during single-thread testing. Interesting—any suggestions for a more effective method?
It's funny how it can happen to everyone. I guess some kids end up finding out they have a huge number or a special chip, which makes them think about selling it, haha!
I installed the system from CyberPower and noticed a 4.6GHz frequency in the BIOS settings.