Question New 9800X3D always at 100% usage

Feb 28, 2025
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New 9800x3d, out of the box in a fresh windows install is always running at 5.2GHz on all cores and every monitoring software I can think to check is showing 100% utilization at all times.

Motherboard is the ASUS TUF Gaming X870+ wifi.

I've done the typical malware scans and found nothing. I've ensured all drivers and BIOS are updated. I've set BIOS to default. I've tried setting Ryzen balanced and Ryzen high performance as well as windows balanced and performance yet hwinfo still shows 100% CPU usage. I have booted in a clean boot, and safe mode with the same 100% usage, task manager shows that task manager is the process using 100% of the CPU when no other processes are really even running (just windows). I noticed that the C-state was set to auto in BIOS and switch it to enabled but hwinfo still shows all c0 states at 100% with that enabled in BIOS. I have killed every background process and regardless of what is running, CPU is always at 100% usage. There has to be a hidden overclock or something enabled by default in BIOS that is eluding me. Default BIOS settings and fresh out of the box this issue was happening. At a loss for how to solve it.