So I have been using a 1600x for awhile with no problems. Yesterday, my buddy gave me his old system with the same motherboard i had but he was using an r5-1600. Slight downgrade, but it was watercooled so i could make up for the slower clock by overclocking it higher. After reinstalling windows, and overclocking using manual cpu core multiplier in the bios, the cpu clock speed was stuck at 1.37 GHZ. The base clock for this cpu is 3.2 but im used to overclocked 4.0 with my 1600x so i tried to get 3.6 out of the 1600. If i reset the bios settings, task manager reports 3.12 being the highest it goes, and when i overclock it shows max frequency as 3.6 but it wont go over 1.37. I have reset windows twice and set all the power settings to high performance but nothing has worked. The guy who gave it to me had the issue once and it randomly went back to normal after restarting despite his overclocking using the same method.
One more thing to note is that CPU-Z shows completely different speeds than the task manager, but they still aren't correct. CPU-Z shows a bus speed of 99.7 and a clock speed of 1594.
Specs:
Ryzen 5 1600
Asus b350f
EVGA gtx 1060 ssc
EVGA 750w power supply
2x8gb gskill ram @2133 mhz
250gb samsung 850 evo (windows OS and games)
4tb WD black hdd
One more thing to note is that CPU-Z shows completely different speeds than the task manager, but they still aren't correct. CPU-Z shows a bus speed of 99.7 and a clock speed of 1594.
Specs:
Ryzen 5 1600
Asus b350f
EVGA gtx 1060 ssc
EVGA 750w power supply
2x8gb gskill ram @2133 mhz
250gb samsung 850 evo (windows OS and games)
4tb WD black hdd
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