Question Why is my CPU doing this?

[Jimsterino98]

i got a Ryzen 5 1600X when i first built my PC in 2017. However, i noticed something weird on HWMonitor. Keep in mind its not overclocked. I did try overclocking a couple times but i failed so i left it at stock speeds. But HWMonitor shows that my CPU is at 3.7GHz ALL CORES even though the stock speed should be 3.6GHz?? please help

 

[mdd1963]

The base clock might be 3.6 GHz, but as long as cooling is adequate, it can boost all cores a tad higher, and/or a single core as high as 4.0 GHz....

If it idles down to 800-1000 MHz when you are merely staring at your desktop with nothing really going on, and boosts to as high as 4.0 GHz under a load, then it's behavior is normal....

 

[Jimsterino98]

it gives me 3.7 GHz when idling. im not playing anything i just opened the HWMonitor and it gives me 3.7 GHz but theres nothing going on. i remember when i first built my rig, i opened HWMonitor then, and it would give me 2 cores at 3.6 GHz or something then the rest of the cores were like 1.2GHz or something but now it says all cores are 3.7 GHz and i find it useless because i have nothing going on. Also my cooler is the NZXT kraken x62 V2

 

[Vlade]

Do you have AMD Ryzen power plan enabled? You can find it from Control panel -> Hardware and sound -> Power options

 

[Jimsterino98]

Do you have AMD Ryzen power plan enabled? You can find it from Control panel -> Hardware and sound -> Power options

i only see normal windows powerplan and not a certain AMD Ryzen one

 

[TJ Hooker]

Sounds like you didn't install the chipset drivers.

https://www.amd.com/en/support

 

[Jimsterino98]

Sounds like you didn't install the chipset drivers.

https://www.amd.com/en/support

oops lol aight i just did it, and it put all my cores back to 3.7 GHz idle using AMD Ryzen power plan balanced vs the 2.2 GHz idle with normal windows one. hmm

 

[Vlade]

Yes it does that. I asked it because if it would had been enabled, then that would have been doing it. My bad that I wasn't clear with it.

 

[Jimsterino98]

Yes it does that. I asked it because if it would had been enabled, then that would have been doing it. My bad that I wasn't clear with it.

oh i see lol. so does that mean everything is normal or what. also im having another issue with ryzen master software. im trying to uninstall it from control panel but keeps giving me an error 1720 something to do with windows package installer. do you know how to fix this or do i have to factory reset my PC?

 

[Vlade]

oh i see lol. so does that mean everything is normal or what. also im having another issue with ryzen master software. im trying to uninstall it from control panel but keeps giving me an error 1720 something to do with windows package installer. do you know how to fix this or do i have to factory reset my PC?

Well I'm not an expert, but I have Ryzen 7 2700X and my idle speed seems to be 2.2GHz also so I would say it's normal. Why do you need to uninstall it?

 

[Jimsterino98]

Well I'm not an expert, but I have Ryzen 7 2700X and my idle speed seems to be 2.2GHz also so I would say it's normal. Why do you need to uninstall it?

cuz when im trying to install the new version nothing happens. i tell it to upgrade and it says done, but i have no way of launching so i want to uninstall then reinstall to fix it but it's being wack af