R5 1600x overclock in bios not reflected in monitoring tools

[Phuong_3]

I'm running a 1600x on an MSI b350 Tomahawk board with EVGA DDR4 16GB 3000mhz. I've overclocked the cpu and memory in BIOS and I've used it stable for hours. When I boot to BIOS it shows the cpus are set to 3.9Ghz and when I check computer properties in Windows, it also reflects the 3.9Ghz.

I decided to verify with prime95 but during stress testing, monitoring with cpu-z, it's not showing that the cores ramp up to the 3.9Ghz that I had set. They're stuck at 2.2Ghz...Am I missing a setting here? I've gone through BIOS settings again and everything looks correct - I've checked overclocking guides for the same board and it's all straight forward. Screenshot attached, help greatly appreciated.

Am I missing something?

 

[bishopi5]

Yes you are, Prime 95 will not max out your clocks. It will however max your usage. My i7-6700k says it runs below stock speeds and its actually at 4.7 !

 

[Phuong_3]

Yes you are, Prime 95 will not max out your clocks. It will however max your usage. My i7-6700k says it runs below stock speeds and its actually at 4.7 !

So it's working, just not displaying its actual clock speeds?

 

[bishopi5]

Yes you are, Prime 95 will not max out your clocks. It will however max your usage. My i7-6700k says it runs below stock speeds and its actually at 4.7 !

So it's working, just not displaying its actual clock speeds?

Yes it's working fine !

 

[marko55]

CPU-z isn't reading ryzen clocks properly yet. Hopefully there will be an update at some point