Today I replaced the stock cooler and installed a Peerless Assassin 120 SE onto my Ryzen 5 2600x (Asus B450MA-2, 2x8gb Crucial 3200 DDR4) which has instantly transformed my temps for the better. So in my wisdom I decided to turn on PBO in the bios now I've got some temp overhead to play with. (I've changed absolutely no other settings in the bios at all).
Now its still running great, no crashes, temps look superb, but HWinfo64 is reporting at Idle 1.481v - 1.506v on core voltage (SV12tfn) hovering around 3ghz (temps are 35 to 42C),
Using Cinebench, Max is reporting it boosting to 4.248ghz at 1.544v with a max temp of 59C
I'm using the balanced Ryzen power plan.
Now I know PBO is exceptionally complex in how it boosts the cores and yeah! its doing a great job!
But is this sort of voltage detrimental in the long term to the life of my CPU or is this just how PBO works?
