Question Overclocking Ryzen 5 1600 to 4GHz but it gets stuck at 1.55GHz. Did I do something wrong?

EdrisTheScrub

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So I tried overclocking my R5 1600 to 4GHz, I enabled A-XMP, I set the voltage at 1.4V, CPU frequency at 4000 (I have an MSI motherboard) and nothing else. I boot into windows and my clock speed is stuck at 1.36GHz on the task manager and CPU-Z shows that my core speed is at 1549.63MHz.

What happened? I'm lost.
 

EdrisTheScrub

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Nov 21, 2016
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Apparently it has to do with the motherboard. Something like if you set the voltage over 1.3V it will automatically lock the frequency at 1.55GHz. It's a problem with some MSI and Gigabyte I think. Maybe a BIOS update will fix it?