PC Processors

[STEUSSO]

Hi,
I got a Ryzen 7 5800X and it's running always at top clock speed and I don't know why. I'm worried about its health and the damages it could cause, can you guys help me and enlight me on this subject ? Is it normal ? excessive ? and what should I do ?

[goodplay]

4.8GHz is top speed, your image also shows 6% CPU use & fairly high Memory usage.

You might want to look into any startup apps that might be the cause of the usage?

[STEUSSO]

Hi,
It has always been that way, and even after fresh restarts (reinstalling windows) it's still the same. Like when windows is absolutely naked, it runs at 4.2 GHz at 0% usage.
I'm worried
I even changed the motherboard, and I guess this excludes all kind of overclocking (which I didn't do) because it's been the same before and after the switch.
Please help

[FunkZ]

Windows Task Manager does not accurately reflect the true clock speed of the processor. How could it when it's showing one speed when you have an 8C/16T processor and each core could be running a different speed?

Ryzen Master and many other hardware monitoring software shows you the speed of each individual core.

[johnnyenglish]

Hi,
Just pointed out in another topic, the most common high idle temperature and clocks normally is the CPU Minimum State in power options.

Give it a look, set it to 5% and if all goes well you should see it go down to a more comfy zone, however, taskbar is not the best location to look for your current frequency.

Try Ryzen Master or HWiNFO64.

Good Luck