I need to start off with saying, this is not clickbait (as cliche as that looks). I've been doing performance tests for days on the new Ryzen 1700x and today I noticed something odd. That is what this video is about and demonstrates, nothing more! Oh man this can potentially ruin my channel and credibility but I hope everyone can see from the video this is no hoax or joke, anyway....

I've been working on overclocking my CPU to 4.00Ghz and believe I had found stable settings.

I left the system running a benchmark which would take quite a while (SPECviewperf) and when I returned the system had gone to sleep mode (I have not set the high performance profile deliberately). Fine, I hit the spacebar and woke it up. I continued testing but the results I was seeing where off, they where way too high!

Upon checking it looked like my CPU was now running at 4.20Ghz! After testing some more surprisingly it seemed perfectly happy and stable. WTF!

After doing lots of tests and making screenshots, I rebooted the system. After the reboot, everything was back at 4.00Ghz again and testing like it should. I repeated putting the system to sleep and waking it back up and it was back at 4.20Ghz again and getting record benchmarks!

Trying to set my BIOS overclock to a 42 multiplier manually was a no go, the system would often lock up even before post. Only once in 10 tries did it go into the BIOS but booting windows was never going to happen. I did not change any settings which can be seen in the video.

Has anyone else seen this? If this a fluke, are these results skewed or is it really running at 4.20Ghz through some bug? I find it all very suspicious from what I can tell it's actually running at 4.20ghz and completing benchmarks and computations faster then at 4.00Ghz! Memory benchmarks are also through the roof! I'm also not seeing any artifacts or anything of the sort.

Please, anyone else with a Ryzen CPU and a AX370-Gaming-5 (BIOS F3) motherboard, run the same test? On any Ryzen board really.

This is either completely false and something weird is happening (most probably) or there is more potential left within the Ryzen chip then we are currently seeing.

Let me know what you think in the comments!

p.s. As with the memory video before, this was not a video I was planning to make or a joke video, I'm not a clickbait channel. The AM4/Ryzen platform is quite new though and sometimes odd things happen.

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