Did A-XMP overclock my CPU somehow??

andyl49

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I recently built a new system with a Ryzen 2600x, Corsair vengeance 3000mhz DDR4 with a MSI X470 gaming pro carbon motherboard.

I noticed the RAM was at only around 2100mhz so last night i enabled A-XMP in BIOS but nothing changed so i went to advanced and enabled it there and set the RAM to profile 2 for 2991mhz (or whatever the figure was).

I started playing the new assassins creed and noticed in my CAM settings when keeping an eye on temps that my CPU clock speed was over 5000mhz (cant remember the exact figure) rather than the standard 4195mhz (which i think should be 4.2ghz) it was before with the 42x multiplier!

Temps only reached 67c on the CPU from 4hrs of playing but I'm worried my CPU is doing overtime that i don't really need it too yet!

Has anyone else experience this and should i turn A-XMP off then see if i can figure out how to manually set the ram OC?
 
I did think that was the case, it was just odd as before the CAM software maxed out the cpu clock at 4196mhz, then after i upped the RAM the clock counter went round to over 5000.... so it was jumping from idle 2200mhz then 4195mhz (which i hear is normal) then when under load going to over 5k i was like woooahhhh that's not right and if it is I've got a god chip!