I tested gaming and cinebench and can confirm that the CPU never moves from 2.2Ghz. You boot into windows and check any software, CPUZ,AIDA 64, Ryzen Master and you get the cpu speed as 2.2Ghz. The bios will display the settings properly 3800Mhz, 3900Mhz or 4000Mhz respectively. The system will reboot, if you go into the bios to check your settings.
If you move the multiplayer in the bios to 38,38.5,39,or 40 by using the manual mode. If you own a 1600x and attempt to overclock, At stock you hit the regular 3.7XFR frequency. Let me be more clear with the problem description. I say this since the problem is apparent in all bios after 1002. It may be a bug in the AGESA code from 1.0.0.4a and has been carried forward to 1.0.0.6. I believe it may not be an ASUS bios team problem necessarily. I have used every bios and the the only bios that functions properly with the 1600x is the 1002.
I can say that it has nothing to do with Ryzen master as my system exhibited this prior to my install of Ryzen Master. In closing I hope that those of you who own the 1600x can chime in on this thread and help others who are experiencing this problem or just have conversations about our experiences with the 1600x and C6H combo. This is how I have been overclocking after bios 1002. Using this configuration with Core voltage offset modes gives me control over the multiplier and Core voltage. Using A0 for the 40 multiplier and A2 for the 40.5 multiplier has yielded results. I have worked around this issue by using PState overclocking. But I still can not use manual multiplier control modes or manual voltage modes without getting thrown into the 22 multiplier. The 1401 bios has done wonders for my ram and temps. This thread is not to say that all the bios revisions after 1002 are without merit. I figured that we should band together to see if ASUS can resolve the problem with a bios update. I have also seen several post on this forum confirming that the problem only seems to happen to 1600x owners. I have noticed the after bios 1002 overclocking in the traditional fashion no longer works without locking the processors a 22 multiplier. Hey everyone, I wanted to make a thread for owners of the 1600x.