Ryzen 5 2600X "issue"

[Biggus Nickus]

Hello,
So I have a Ryzen 5 2600X and it is pretty solid for my needs.The issue is that if I use high performance in windows power,It maxes at 4.2GHz but If I lower the maximum processor speed to 99%,It goes down to 3.2 max.
Is there any way I can set It to the stock speed of 3.6GHz?

Precision boost overdrive is off on the BIOS and all values are at default but the issue persists.

Anyone have a solution?
Thanks in advance!

[kiwikev]

I ran mine happily on the ryzen balanced power plan and been using it that way with no performance issues.

I do use Ryzen Master but at defaults no PBO/CO just to monitor temps/power/etc.

[Illusion of Progress]

Task Manager probably isn't going to poll it well since Ryzen adjusts clock speed dynamically and will send cores into brief "sleep states" a lot. I simply wouldn't pay much attention to what Task Manager says. In other words, ignore what isn't a real issue to begin with.

By setting the maximum processor state to 99%, you're probably disabling (or restricting) boost, and you wouldn't want to do that.

Base clock on modern CPUs are a bit of an inconsequential thing because CPUs will either spend a lot of idle time below it, and a lot of demanding time above it. The only thing base clock really means is that it's the only speed CPU manufacturers guarantee (at least this is true of Intel but I'm almost positive it is of AMD too). But just about all CPUs, if not all CPUs, are going to boost above that and pretty close to their "up to" rated speed, and if they don't, it's going to be some limitation of either thermals or the motherboard/VRMs before the CPU itself. Base clock is "almost meaningless" to a user.

[_I_]

watch the core speeds with hwmonitor

but even then, it polls a few times a second, and cores can park or throttle or change speeds in an instant

[mtono]

if your games do not stutter, the thing works. just dont mind.
my2ct

[Bad 💀 Motha]

The Base Clock vs Turbo is dynamic. As long as it's running at the Base Clock or higher, everything is working as it should.

AMD users should never use the Power Profilea Microsoft provides. Go download and install the latest AMD AM4 Ryzen Chipset Driver. After install, restart WinOS. Then install AMD Ryzen Master. Select the power profile using Ryzen Master

Microsoft Windows Power Profiles and what it says for CPU and RAM info in Task Manager can often be incorrect on AMD Platforms. Use apps such as AMD Ryzen Master, CPU-Z, HWMonitor, GPU-Z

[andreasaspenberg575]

it is not an official amd product and is not on amd`s list of cpus. you should go for an official amd product rather than a ripoff.

[_I_]

im sorry, what?
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/ryzen_5/2600x

https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Zen/AMD-Ryzen%205%202600X.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Ryzen_processors#Pinnacle_Ridge_(2000_series,_Zen+_based)

[Biggus Nickus]

Tried all options and apart from extra power usage and noise,the fps gain(1-5) is just not worth it.Paired with 16GB ram and an RX 6600 I think I reached my PC's max performance.
Thanks for the replies everyone!

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Biggus Nickus:

Tried all options and apart from extra power usage and noise,the fps gain(1-5) is just not worth it.Paired with 16GB ram and an RX 6600 I think I reached my PC's max performance.
Thanks for the replies everyone!

No that's not the case at all.
Your PC would be more capable then you realize with more RAM and better GPU.

What Motherboard do you have?

Are you sure the CPU is being cooled properly?

[r.linder]

Update your chipset drivers and use the AMD Ryzen Balanced power plan, don't use the default Windows power plans

Originally posted by andreasaspenberg575:

it is not an official amd product and is not on amd`s list of cpus. you should go for an official amd product rather than a ripoff.

Dude, are you just intentionally being as ignorant as possible on these forums to attract attention? AMD took a lot of their older CPU pages off their site, doesn't mean it's a bootleg.

https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/ryzen-5-2600x.c2014
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/ryzen_5/2600x

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Originally posted by Biggus Nickus:

Tried all options and apart from extra power usage and noise,the fps gain(1-5) is just not worth it.Paired with 16GB ram and an RX 6600 I think I reached my PC's max performance.
Thanks for the replies everyone!

No that's not the case at all.

In the system's current configuration, yes it has basically reached its performance limit, it's an old CPU that was only really comparable in gaming performance to an overclocked 4790K, and a GPU that's low end and pretty much entry level at this point for demanding AAA titles.

Pretty sure that's what they meant, not that they couldn't upgrade.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Well that's the thing, you all tell the OP his CPU is no good. It's perfectly fine and can handle a RTX 3080 Ti or 4070 just fine. The problem is 16GB is bare minimum and his GPU is bottom of the barrel

[r.linder]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Well that's the thing, you all tell the OP his CPU is no good. It's perfectly fine and can handle a RTX 3080 Ti or 4070 just fine. The problem is 16GB is bare minimum and his GPU is bottom of the barrel

Pairing a 2600X with anything more than an RTX 3060, RX 6600-XT, or GTX 1080 Ti is a terrible idea, everyone that's actually used those CPUs and looked into them long enough knows that Zen struggled more with the 1080 Ti compared to Intel's offerings and Zen+ was only a small step ahead in IPC and latency.

I had a 2700X and an RTX 2080 and noticed a massive performance jump (easily 30%) just by going up to a 3900X because of the increase in IPC, frequency, and the decrease in latency. And then I had another massive jump when I went to an i9-10850K sometime in 2021 after the 2020 GPU shortage when I had swiped a used 2080 Ti just before it began, because Ryzen 3000 series was known to bottleneck the 2080 Ti even at 4K resolution in some games, trusted labs like those of GamersNexus easily proved that, and again, I saw large gains in FPS across the board due to IPC, over 800 MHz higher core frequencies, and lower latency. Same GPU, same RAM, only thing that changed was the CPU and motherboard.

Personally I would say the RX 6600 is a good fit for Zen and Zen+ machines considering that it's comparable to a 1080. For those trying to avoid wasting money through huge bottlenecks, pairing a 3080, 4070, 7800-XT, etc. is just nuts.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If it struggles it's due to the game needing a stronger CPU. Doesn't really have anything to do with the paired GPU.

There is next to no games you can't play well with a 2600X + 3080 or 3080 Ti.

Sure some need a stronger CPU, such as City Skylines 2 or many of the TotalWar games, but for Shooters and many of the story games it's fine.