Although I do have a Ryzen 7 5800XT + RTX 5060 Ti 8GB combo with 32GB 3600 MHz RAM (B450 board), I generally only run my chip on 4 cores and 8 threads ever since I upgraded from my long time first PC (i5-2400 + GTX 660 combo) dubly named "Little War Machine". Fiddling around with Ryzen Master whilst playing Beyond All Reason with the latest update (as of the date of this post (24 FEB 2026)), I noticed my peak CPU speed was 4,819 MHz so then I decided to reduce my TDP (via BIOS) to ECO Mode 95W. This allowed my peak speed to reach 4,950 MHz, which was and is still fantastic.
Then, whilst I was watching a replay in B.A.R., I manually set my actives cores to their peak limit speeds (or "parked" core speeds). Cores 1 and 2 are set to 3,800 MHz, Core 3 (OS Preferred) to 4,400 MHz, and core 8 (OC Preferred) to 5,100 MHz. It ran 5.1 GHz stable for 6 minutes and 29 seconds before an automatic restart. Furthermore, when I manually increased from 5.1 GHz to 5.2 GHz, the system ran with instability as it forcefully restarted itself after 10 seconds (in the same environment) of changing the peak speed to 5.2 GHz. After the system automatically restarted, I decided to change Core 8's peak speed back to 4.8 GHz as I had it originally. I just wanted to broadcast my unusual success to the world of Reddit.
Please note that I have a Corsair 240mm water cooler and the CPU voltage was set to 1.45v via Ryzen Master. Pehaps I have won the Silicon lottery or perhaps I am just lucky? I don't know, but do take care when overlooking and to test and take notes for your own personal research.