Question Is HWmonitor reading my clock speed wrong?

[Dylanblaha]

So I have a Ryzen 7900x 12c/24t and it never really goes above 5.6 GHz (I think I’ve seen it touch around 5.9 GHz though).
However, I was playing a game and watching YouTube in the background and dragged something to the other monitor and noticed it read a max value of 7.93 GHz across almost all cores except for two, which got up to 6.48 GHz and 6.3 GHz

Here’s a pic to show it
Have you guys had any problems with HWmonitor? It seems reputable.
Also, if my clock speed is actually going up to 7.9 GHz and I have a crazy processor, is this something to be concerned about? BIOS setting are all default, and I never tweaked with the CPU. It’s cooled with an AIO and never goes above it’s intended 95 Celsius.
Ram is ddr5 6000mhz XMP profile

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Hey there,

HWMon doesn't seem to be very well supported nowadays, and doesn't have regular updates as you'd expect.

Most here use HWInfo. It's a better tool all round. Try that and check again.

 

[geofelt]

Clock numbers are a rate.
Samples are taken with some frequency and a calculation is done.
If you happen to hit the sample and the frequently within an interval, you can get a momentary high clock rate.
The maximum number is just that, the max observed.
Now, if you saw an individual rate continuously high, that would be worrisome.(or not)

 

[uWebb429]

The maximum number is just that, the max observed.

For Intel CPUs, HWMonitor can report maximum MHz numbers that are well beyond what is physically possible. It looks like it has the same problem with Ryzen CPUs. It is a bug. It is best to ignore the maximum MHz that HWMonitor reports.

 

[CountMike]

HWMonitor was never accurate with AMD, use Rayzen master or HWinfo for more detailed results.

 

[crescendo88]

i have the same issue my 7700k can go 29k-30k mhz,only during game tho,i was like whattt..no way.temps ok tho
n then i switch from "high performance" to "balanced",nothing
n then i reset bios,i thought something change in c state,nothing
n then i downgrade hwmonitor from version 1.53 into 1.50 n it work....no silly 29k-30k ghz anymore lol