TL;DR - Core Performance Boost is disabled and I cannot get it enabled. Have tried changing all BIOS settings I can think of. Is it because I am running Server 2016?
I've checked my BIOS settings over and over, I have ensured EVERYTHING is set correctly. I have a 2700x on Server 2016 since August of last year. I left everything as stock except that I had to enable XMP so my 3200 MHz RAM can run at 2933 MHz. For the life of me I cannot get 4x8GB RAM to run at 3200 MHz. I've tried Ryzen DRAM calculator exhaustively and and no matter what I try, I can't.
Anyway, I'm not here to discuss that. I want to know why despite not touching any settings (except for the aforementioned XMP), HWinfo shows that Core Performance Boost is disabled? I didn't even realize this until a couple days ago when my server was doing some transcodes (so CPU was at full load), that the speed never went above 3.7 GHz and my VCore never rose above 1.1V. So long story short, I downloaded HW info and as shown in the screenshot, CPB is red and bold which means off AND disabled.
I have also updated my BIOS not to the most recent one, but the one before the latest.
I posted this on reddit, and the only good response I got what it's possible that running Server 2016 is what is causing this issue. Someone else replied that they have CPB working with a 2700x and the saem mobo but with Windows 10. Unfortunately right now, I don't have a spare drive, or the time, to install windows 10 on it to see if it is indeed the OS that is causing this. Can anyone deny/confirm that it is the OS?
I've checked my BIOS settings over and over, I have ensured EVERYTHING is set correctly. I have a 2700x on Server 2016 since August of last year. I left everything as stock except that I had to enable XMP so my 3200 MHz RAM can run at 2933 MHz. For the life of me I cannot get 4x8GB RAM to run at 3200 MHz. I've tried Ryzen DRAM calculator exhaustively and and no matter what I try, I can't.
Anyway, I'm not here to discuss that. I want to know why despite not touching any settings (except for the aforementioned XMP), HWinfo shows that Core Performance Boost is disabled? I didn't even realize this until a couple days ago when my server was doing some transcodes (so CPU was at full load), that the speed never went above 3.7 GHz and my VCore never rose above 1.1V. So long story short, I downloaded HW info and as shown in the screenshot, CPB is red and bold which means off AND disabled.
I have also updated my BIOS not to the most recent one, but the one before the latest.
I posted this on reddit, and the only good response I got what it's possible that running Server 2016 is what is causing this issue. Someone else replied that they have CPB working with a 2700x and the saem mobo but with Windows 10. Unfortunately right now, I don't have a spare drive, or the time, to install windows 10 on it to see if it is indeed the OS that is causing this. Can anyone deny/confirm that it is the OS?
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