Question Ryzen 3600X staying always at 4250 Mhz in idle

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Hey guys, just build my system right now and I see that my Ryzen 3600X which has a base clock of 3.80Ghz is always running at round 4250 Mhz. I am not running anything except chrome and it is really on idle. Shouldn't it be 3800 Mhz instead?
Is that a bad sign and why is it? Something broken or bad CPU? I need help.

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Hello, what windows power plan are you using? also are you on latest bios?, are you using monitoring programs other than cpu-z and hwinfo? do you have voltage and heat spikes?. try resetting bios to factory, set power plan to ryzen balanced. i have a r5 3600 and had voltage and heat spikes constantly, decided to set a static core clock multiplier but lost boost which isn't important for me anyway
 
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usually that's how high performance power plan behaves. change it to balanced or power saving for less heat.

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This little image shows you EXACTLY what you search for, setting it to 100% everywhere does what you see, and it hurts your peformance.

Set those numbers to 100 max, 15 % minimum for quiet low power work, and 50% min, 100% max for ultimate snappiness.

Setting anything below 100% will mean CPU will not go to BOOST state (helps on laptops to make sure its not frying your thighs)