Question Few questions about my 9800X3D temps and BCLK clock

Nov 17, 2024
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Hello,
I am new to the forum! I've just upgraded to 9800X3D from my 8700k. Specs are as follows now:

Ryzen 7 9800X3D + BeQuiet Dark Rock Pro 5 cooler
MSI X670E Gaming Wifi
Adata Lancer Blade, 2x16GB, 6000MHz, CL30
RTX 2080
And 750W BeQuiet PSU

My main questions are:
1. Is 40-50 idle temp okay on this CPU or maybe I should reseat cooler with more generous amount of paste, parhaps it's better to just spread it instead of doing pea method. I'm looking at Package temp in HWMonitor, Cores Max temp is much lower, like 10c lower on idle, which is the actual temp that I would expect. Should I be looking on Package or Cores Max? On my old intel Package was max out of all cores.. Under load in games, package floats around 60c sharp in gaming, which is weird. It's very slow to go back to idle temps from load (on package)
2. My BCLK is not steady on 100 in Windows, what could be affecting it? On Intel it helped me to disable virtualization but it didn't helped me here to disable SVM. This affects ram clocks which can hover from 2993 MHz to 3000, and of course it affects everything.

Everything is on auto in BIOS, except EXPO profile set to 6000 and SVM disabled. And everything is working as expected to be honest, but I'm just worried about CPU idle temps since they were much lower on 8700k, and much quicker to drop after load. And I'd like to make BCLK steady if possible