Question pc temp

[Halfazzed1]

ryzen 7 3700x
rx 5700 xt
gigabyte b450 gaming x

I had the stock cooler wanted other options bought the corsair h60 liquid cooler now that the pc is quieter i have noticed it idles up and down with only OS/coretemp running and it must have been doing the same with the stock cooler. I watched the temps and in a.m on start its at 39c-51c just running said programs, so i opened Gigabyte easy oc and watched the processor speed and it went up/dwn 3589mhz-4300mhz just idling. So gigabyte easy oc gave me a suggested oc of 38, so i tried it and it leveled things off perfectly cpu temp sits at 39-41c idling and gaming temps were dramatically improved. Now shouldnt my pc have been running like this without the OC and if so how do i get there as i dont really wanna run this thing with an OC all the time also i noticed that the speed when OCed stays at the OC setting 38 and my speed while doing anything never went above 3800mhz why would the OC limit the processors full potentioal as it has a max of 4.4ghz

 

[GarrettL]

Don't use the EZ overclock in the BIOS settings. That's why it dropped to 3800MHz max.

For Ryzen cpu's you should leave everything on default/auto, enable XMP and PBO auto/enabled.

There must be 10 posts a day about Ryzen temps. What you are seeing is normal. Please search this forum for the same question.

The temps you have are normal. I have a 3800x and H60 with similar behavior. Normal.

 

[Halfazzed1]

Don't use the EZ overclock in the BIOS settings. That's why it dropped to 3800MHz max.

For Ryzen cpu's you should leave everything on default/auto, enable XMP and PBO auto/enabled.

There must be 10 posts a day about Ryzen temps. What you are seeing is normal. Please search this forum for the same question.

The temps you have are normal. I have a 3800x and H60 with similar behavior. Normal.

Hey thanks for the response, I cant believe that this would be a normal thing for such a big company like AMD, I have used other PCs that basically have the same build and do not have this issue at all. So iam gonna be kinda contradictive here maybe and i have yet to do much research on the issue but (with no OC) at idle this pc should not be reving up and down like it is theres no load on it so no reason for a jump from base clock speed to max boost. Iam not a huge fan of OC now with that said with out OC the temps get crazy hot and iam running 4k 60hz so I would expect some higher temps but not like what I was getting. so this is kinda 2 questions as i am learning some of this stuff as i go, when you OC it bumps up the speed but i would expect it to not go under the OC speed and still reach its max speed though if needed, you would think right? So thats one of my ?s does OC hold the processor at that OC speed period?
Now as far as OC, i just dont want to because i shouldnt have to, i built what i built because it should run at top notch without OC thats why i got higher end parts. Now when i do give a slight OC it runs how i would expect it to run without being OC and the temps oh damn they are amazing nowhere near like running stock. OC temps are like 20-25c lower on the processor and i am running 3840*2160 so 4k at 51-60 fps (doom eternal, fortnite, gears 5, resident evil3, forza horizon etc) and OC or not i never have any quality issues its strictly temp. id like to know what the OC does besides bump up the speed so i could apply it manually without the OC or maybe thats all it is. Kinda new to this stuff, iam pretty smart but up until now i thought PCs did 3 things Google, fix resumes and porn lol, i guess something good has come out of this Covid thing and you never know I could be wrong and thats the way this cpu works but i cant believe that a company would build a processor that steps on the gas pedal and lets off and repeats that all day while sitting in the driveway doing nothing. But again thanks for responding bud.