[SOLVED] Need to know how to throttle my Ryzen 2600x

[viral908]

Hey, folks.
This is an exercise to basically find the point of failure for a problem I'm facing. My PC is hard rebooting without warning(No BSOD) when I play Forza Horizon 4. Sometimes after a long play session and sometimes not so much. I haven't faced this issue with either the Witcher 3 or the new Doom and I run them at high settings as well. I've faced other general instability with FH4 as well and I'm just trying to figure out if this is related and I can eliminate CPU overheating as a factor. So I want to know if there's a simple way of throttling CPU performance at high temps or atleast lower the clocks within a reasonable limit. I'm using the stock cooler at the moment.
I don't have any experience with messing with the clocks and voltage on a CPU.

Specs:
Ryzen 2600x( stock cooler and stock clocks and settings using the default profile on Ryzen Master)
16GBx1 stick of Ram running at 2400 mhz
480 GB Kingston SSD
1TB WD Black HDD
2TB Seagate HDD( FH4 is installed on this drive, for reasons)
MSI X470 Gaming Mobo
Gigabyte GTX 960-4GB

600 watt PSU(A local manufacturer that I have a good history with)
+12V output at 27A(That's amps, I assume)
-12V output at 0.8A


Processor thermal control is set at 95 degrees centigrade but I never see any drop in frames at(I'm assuming) high temps. I do notice that it runs slightly warm but like I mentioned, I never had any issues before while using any other app or game.

A simple quick step by step or a link to an noob friendly guide would help greatly. I found this difficult because Google only shows results that pertain to overclocking. Thanks in advance.

 

[TJ Hooker]

What graphics card? What exact PSU, or at least what is the current rating on the 12V rail for that PSU?

What are max CPU temperatures under load? Use Ryzen Master to measure. All modern CPUs should automatically throttle if overheating. Only way I could see it overheating to the point of just suddenly shutting down is if your cooler isn't mounted properly.

 

[viral908]

I've updated the original post with the details regarding the PSU and the graphics card.
The cooler not being mounted properly doesn't explain why other usage scenarios don't seem to cause issues. I play a lot of different games. I heard that Ryzen has a naturally high operating range for temperatures. And so I assumed that it isn't throttling on it's own but that the BIOS or whatever was hard rebooting the PC once it hit the threshold. As I mentioned I see no drop in performance before this happens and strongly suspect that the issue maybe that FH4 is causing the issue as it does seem to be unstable. I just want to eliminate other suspects.

What graphics card? What exact PSU, or at least what is the current rating on the 12V rail for that PSU?

What are max CPU temperatures under load? Use Ryzen Master to measure. All modern CPUs should automatically throttle if overheating. Only way I could see it overheating to the point of just suddenly shutting down is if your cooler isn't mounted properly.

 

[TJ Hooker]

Watts = Amps x Volts. If that PSU is only rated for 27A on the 12V rail, that "600W" unit is really only a 324W PSU. Any PSU with the 12V rail rated that much less than the total stated wattage is almost certainly complete trash. If your PC is hard rebooting the PSU is the first thing I would look at. That's a classic sign of a power supply issue, especially if you don't see any performance degradation prior (like you likely would if the CPU was overheating).

If you're still worried about temperature, just monitor the temperature under load as I said above. No need to theorize about it, it's pretty trivial to check. Leave the monitoring program running in the background while you game for a bit or whatever, and then check the max/peak reported temps.

 

[viral908]

Well, the rest seems to be split up between the 3.3V and 5V rails at 30A each. It's an odd power distribution compared to other PSUs. I've been using Ryzen Master to monitor the temps and it's starting to look like temps aren't the issue.

Watts = Amps x Volts. If that PSU is only rated for 27A on the 12V rail, that "600W" unit is really only a 324W PSU. Any PSU with the 12V rail rated that much less than the total stated wattage is almost certainly complete trash. If your PC is hard rebooting the PSU is the first thing I would look at. That's a classic sign of a power supply issue, especially if you don't see any performance degradation prior (like you likely would if the CPU was overheating).

If you're still worried about temperature, just monitor the temperature under load as I said above. No need to theorize about it, it's pretty trivial to check. Leave the monitoring program running in the background while you game for a bit or whatever, and then check the max/peak reported temps.

 

[TJ Hooker]

Modern PCs draw nearly all power from the 12V rail. The fact that the other rails can supposedly supply a lot of power doesn't really help you. The fact that it's designed like that means it is either a very poor and/or very old design.