5800x idle clock

[umbral olive]

hi guys, got a 5800x running w11 and cooled with an arctic liquid freezer II 360 aio, was wondering why does it idle at 4~4.2ghz with 0% usage and battery saving profile on

[topaz lily]

because its doing things

[umbral olive]

its not lol

[topaz lily]

if its not doing anything then it will lower its clock, 0% isnt 0% lol, look at task manager and go to processes tab, click on cpu and it will sort by whats doing the most, as you scrol down you will see a bunch of apps doing things

look at your cpu graph you will see that the graph fluctuates as you are using the pc

[umbral olive]

idling 3.9ish

[umbral swift]

Windows will always be doing things

Even with no programs opened by you

[topaz lily]

this

base clock is what it is capable of doing, does it mean its always going to be 3.8? no

[umbral olive]

in theory just windows stuff shouldn’t be enough to make it run 3.8, but it never goes lower than that, and i know it should because it does with some people as i read online

[random sigil]

My intel Core i7-9700 regularly clocks down to 800MHz when my PC is idle, but as soon as it has to do something, it shoots up to 4.5 GHz

[umbral olive]

that's what i'd like my ryzen to do

[muted orchid]

My Ryzen shoots up and down all over the place when idle

One second it's 4 Ghz, the next is 2,5. And so on