ryzen 7 3700x clock speed too high

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Its called Turbo. Its completely normal for your 3700X to go up to ~4.4Ghz. It won't affect anything and its safe as long as your temps stay under 85C.

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You can set your Windows Power Plan to Power Saver which will limit your CPU to 2200 MHZ whilst browsing in Windows, watching a movie etc. Just put it back to Balanced for gaming or intensive use so that it can boost again. Andy

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September 4, 2019 - I think the hoopla over clock-speed is way overblown. The processor clearly performs well - just look at the benchmark scores. Especially real-world scores not just pure synthetic scores. ... I just did some video encoding and my 3700x was hitting 4.25 GHZ to 4.275 GHz on all cores.

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September 19, 2020 - Hello, I have a Ryzen 7 3700x, the base clock speed is 3.6Hz right? My problem is that Task manager, CPUID and MSI Afterbuner display a clockspeed of 4.3GHz idle (which is weird). But Ryzen Master displays 2.5Ghz idle. So my question is, which software do I trust? Thank you, and have a great day.

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May 23, 2022 -

By safe OC, I mean I don't want to push it to the limits. I want it to run cool, stable, and get good clock speeds. I have a katana 5 tower cooler "cheap not very good. But I assume it's better than stock one."

Should I bother changing the clock speed and voltage or just let them stay at stock speeds?
MOBO "MSI B450-A Pro Max" again, nothing fancy here.

Is it possible to clock it to 4.4 GHZ and stay safe with what I currently have? Or should I fix it to something like 4.2 or 4.0 and give, I don't know low voltage that can handle that and stay cool at the same time?

you might already noticed that I'm not very good at oc'ing and stuff. but any help is appreciated. I currently have 1600x which was running 90+ degrees on stock settings. That's why I fixed that CPU's clock speed to 3.6 with a low voltage, and I'm basically getting more or less the same performance but my CPU is staying nice and cool at 50-60 degrees at max. This is what I'm after.

Download Prime95 and HWiNFO64. Go into your bios and enable Precision Boost Overdrive, leave every other CPU setting on auto. This will essentially remove all power limits from your CPU, allowing us to see what voltage we can use. Open up Prime95 and HWiNFO64, and within Prime95 click: Custom -> “Min FFT size” = 128 and “Max FFT size” = 128, make sure “Run FFTs in place” is selected. Within HWiNFO64, view the sensor that reads CPU Core Voltage (SVI2). MAKE SURE IT IS THE SVI2 SENSOR AS THIS IS THE MOST ACCURATE SENSOR. Allow Prime95 to run for 5-10 minutes, and whatever the lowest value the SVI2 sensor reads is your fit voltage. Now you might be asking: what is fit voltage? Fit voltage is the maximum safe voltage that your CPU can run 24/7 without any degradation. Most Zen 2 processors tend to have a fit voltage of anywhere from 1.25v to 1.32v. Now that you have your fit voltage, go into your bios, disable Precision Boost Overdrive, and set your voltage to that value, and in the box that reads CPU multiple type 42.00x. This means that your CPU will be running at 4.2 GHz. It’s read as a multiple because your motherboard’s BCLK clock speed is 100 MHz, and BCLK clock speed * CPU multiplier = CPU speed (i.e. 100 MHz * 42.00 = 4200 MHz, or 4.2 GHz). If this boots, open HWiNFO and check the SVI2 voltage sensor and your CPU speed. If everything has the correct value, then open Prime95 and run a Small FFT test (maximum power/heat/CPU stress). While this is running, check HWiNFO to make sure the temperature doesn’t get too high (I would say anywhere from 75C-85C is ok). If the test runs for an hour straight without crashing, then it should be stable. If it doesn’t (it probably should as 4.2 GHz isn’t too high of a value for a 3600), then decrease the multiplier to around 41.50x. If it does pass the test, then you can go higher if you like. Try going in smaller increments, such as 42.50x. You can keep going until it crashes, then just decrease the value to the previously known maximum. If you would like an example for a Ryzen 5 3600 overclock, I’m running at 1.28v at 4.4 GHz.

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Doing some testing rn , safely ran a 43.0 1.30v while playing warzone for 3 hrs didn’t go above 54°c . 44.0 1.40v @85°c ran a cinebench and passed , if I had a dual or triple cooler I’m sure that’s very sustainable. Dropping voltage right now 44.0 1.395v @83° is the best I could do.

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November 13, 2020 - For some reason that gets higher sustained clocks, and thus performance, in heavy loads but you HAVE to have much better cooling. ... You can get it to stay higher than 4.2Ghz, maybe around 4.3-4.35 even, by enabling PBO AND getting better-than-stock cooling.

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April 22, 2020 - Hello buddys I just saw this article about the Ryzen 7 3700X: https://www.digitalcitizen.life/overclocking-amd-ryzen-7-3700x How is it possible that I run my CPU core ratio on 4.00 GHz also the base clock. And with CCX tweaking. On one CCX I run 4.45 GHz and 4.35 GHz on the other CCX. My voltage ...

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October 17, 2019 -

Recently got a 3700x and I've been playing around with the settings.

I tried manual OC but it wasn't worth it for me so I just went with Precision Boost Overdrive and my CPU is just hitting 4.1-4.2 GHz under load. I have the same result with just the default (load optimized defaults) settings. The temps seem to be norma as when I was stress-testing it with Ryzen Master it hit 67 °C (I have a Coolermaster 120 Liquid Lite).

Additionally, I have a 2070 Super OC to 1995MHZ and 7900 on memory and 32 GB of Ballistix Sport LT DDR4 (16-18-18-36 stock, can OC to 3600 16-17-16-36, tried both), mobo is Aorus Elite x570 with the latest BIOS.

Have got the latest Win10 and AMD drivers so I was wondering, are those low clocks normal or did I just get really unlucky with my chip?

I anyone would know how to fix it or get some better performance out of it I would really abranchiate it!

Update:

For some reason, PBO was limiting my frequencies to like 4.1 or 4.2 at times but cracking the voltage way up, causing my temps to reach 75 degrees. So I disabled it and tried manual OC. Rn running 4.3 stable on all cores with 1.328V I think and RAM is at 3600 16-17-18-18-36 1.37V

Cinabench score is now 5050 or higher consistently. And the themps are around 70 now not 75 so idk what was causing PBO to do that.

Don't know if others have experienced that with PBO or I'm just very unlucky.

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4.4 is single core only

so ~ 4.2 is normal for multicore

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on that board you have to change the core voltage in the bios from AUTO to NORMAL

you may find another user with the same problem in reddit

r/Amd on Reddit: 3700x clock speed 4.2ghz

April 23, 2020 -

Hi I bought the 3700x and it boosts to just under 4.2ghz on all cores if someone can tell me if that is ok because it does say it is meant to be 4.4ghz.

The boost is not all core. https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-7-3700x Max Boost Clock: Up to 4.4GHz Max boost for AMD Ryzen processors is the maximum frequency achievable by a single core on the processor running a bursty single-threaded workload. Max boost will vary based on several factors, including, but not limited to: thermal paste; system cooling; motherboard design and BIOS; the latest AMD chipset driver; and the latest OS updates.

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Yeah it’s pretty normal, I’ve literally never seen mine hit 4.4. If I ignore the fact that I’ve literally never seen 4.4 on a $350 motherboard with a kraken then I’m happy with the performance, but I’ve got a feeling this will be another one of those make the lawyers rich lawsuits. Unless their “up to” disclaimer shit refers to only when using ln2.

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March 6, 2024 - How to operate 3700X within advertised clock speed... ... In Task Manager the CPU is reported as operating above 4GHz when running various intense programs, but in AMD Ryzen Master most (if not all) CPU Cores are reported as operating well below the base clock speed of 3.6GHz.

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July 29, 2025 -

Hello, I just overclocked my Ryzen 7 3700x from the BIOS to 4.25 with voltages in AUTO, so far so good. The problem is that when the processor is idle without doing anything on the desktop... It also runs at 4.25 frequency. I remember overclocking my old Ryzen 7 2700 in the same way and the frequencies at idle dropped. I already tried the offset MODE and it's the same, the frequency and voltage do not drop at IDLE. Is there a solution to this?

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Task manager does tend to report poorly clocks of most CPUs of the last 10+ years. Download HWinfo64. And take a look at your effective clock, voltage, and cpu power reading. You can also take a look at the VRM readings. My 5800X does for example sit according to Task Manager at its base speed of 3.8 GHz. Though through hwinfo64 i can see it beeing at below 0.3v (package C6 power state) and less than 100 MHz effective clock.

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Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Power Options use Balanced close off everything and wait a min to see if idle clocks. If not use power saver manually when needed.

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AMD 3700x - High Temps and always running at max clock speed - Troubleshooting - Linus Tech Tips

April 12, 2021 - So, I'm becoming really concerned about my PC temps and I'm struggling to figure out what the cause could be. First, here's the build: CPU - Ryzen 3700X MOBO - ASRock X570 Steel Legend RAM - Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 16GB (2x8GB) GPU - Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Gaming OC 11GB PSU - Corsai...

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new Ryzen 7 3700x clock speeds - Troubleshooting - Linus Tech Tips

August 12, 2019 - Hello guys, to be honest I don't really now if I have an issue or not. I hope you can help or explain it to me. I got my new build ready yesteday. Ryzen7 3700x BeQuiet Dark Rock Pro 4 ROG STRIX X470-F GAMING 3000 Mhz Corsair Vengeance RAM What I am currently observing is what I don't really under...

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Anyways thank you so much for the help! ... Make sure PBO is disabled in BIOS. Most motherboards default it to on and it runs way too much voltage which isn't necessary to get max performance out of a CPU. Ryzen idles high because the I/O block (Same thing that has a dedicated fan on X570) ...

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r/Amd on Reddit: Ryzen 3700x high idle clock

May 4, 2020 -

I recently just built a PC with the Ryzen 3700x and noticed that whenever I open chrome or simple tasks the fan always gets loud. I also noticed that it's been clocking at a constant 4,300 Mhz even when its idle. Is this normal?

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If you installed the Ryzen chipset drivers it sets your power plan to the Ryzen Balanced by default, which sets a minimum processor state of 90%, meaning your clocks will always stay high (which isn't a problem because of how Ryzen puts its cores to sleep). As for the fan, if you're using the stock prism fan that came with the CPU you might need to adjust the fan curve. Depending on your MOBO, some (like the one I got) sets your fan curve by default unnecessarily high, especially around idle. You can go into your BIOS and lower those amounts, although I recommend keeping the fan speed 100% at 85 as that's pretty much the hottest you want to go. There's also " fan smoothing " settings that change how quickly your fan reacts to changes in temperatures. I found increasing that smoothing times reduces how noticeable fan changes are.

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I don’t know. I have an i5 3330 and it’s always around 2.80 to 3.0 ghz when idle. I’m guessing that if the cpu usage is low you have nothing to worry about. If you’re still concerned look in task manager for anything that might use your cpu at your full clock speed. Things like Windows Defender or the “AntiMalwareServiceExectuable” process in windows might have something to do with it. Problem is that you can’t kill those tasks. But as I said earlier if the cpu usage isn’t high I think it’s completely fine.

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r/Amd on Reddit: 3700X overclocking - what is preventing higher clock speed? See comment for additional information

December 28, 2021 - Those aren't core clock speeds. ... GamersNexus did a deep dive on PBO for Ryzen 3000 and found it to be pretty much worthless due to binning of Ryzen being very tight to spec. If you bought the 3700X to do overclocking, you're going to be disappointed. I was able to get 4.7ghz on my old 4790k; couldn't beat 4.25ghz all-core on Ryzen 3700X, 4.4ghz single core.

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r/ryzen on Reddit: Ryzen 7 3700X not downclocking

December 12, 2019 -

I've just built my new PC and everything's working great after ironing out a few issues, besides the clock speed of the CPU.

On the desktop, it sits between 1-7% CPU usage but is running at 4-4.1Ghz Clock speed and doesn't downclock to reduce the idle temp which is around 50 - 55 with the stock cooler, a little on the higher side for my liking. My case has plenty of fans too.

I've looked in Bios and the Ryzen Master software etc without any luck, in addition, I've changed Windows Power settings to Balanced, to allow minimum CPU Usage to 1%.

Any tips to help solve this would be much appreciated.

For reference my components are here if anyone knows anything Bios specific etc - https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Matthius_/saved/#view=zVzBZL

Thanks.

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Are there any overclock settings enabled in BIOS? You've got a gaming MOBO so I wouldn't be surprised if there was some default auto OC setting turned on.

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