New to overclocking, got the wrong idea or have I messed something up? (3600X)

[Scarffyyy]

Apologies if this is a stupid question and been asked before but I struggled to find anything that answered my question.

I recently decided to try my hand at overclocking my CPU (3600X). After watching many videos and reading many tutorials, I finally went for it.

I managed to get a stable 4.2 Ghz all core @ 1.275v

I used Cinebench and Prime95 to stress test and all seemed okay, reaching the 4.2 Ghz and sitting around 65c. I then loaded up Warzone and I'm only hitting around 3.9 Ghz on one or two cores the rest are around 2.4 - 2.6 Ghz.

Is that normal? I thought by manually overclocking it would run at 4.2 Ghz all the time or at least under load.

My windows power plan is set to ultimate and the minimum processor state is at 100%.

Have I just got the wrong end of the stick or have I messed something up?

 

[Benass]

Game doesn't Need to max out cpu?
I'm guessing really.

 

[koooowweeee]

What GPU do you have? As mentioned above. If the game doesn't need it, it won't clock that high. So if you have ran a few stress tests you should be good.

 

[Scarffyyy]

What GPU do you have? As mentioned above. If the game doesn't need it, it won't clock that high. So if you have ran a few stress tests you should be good.

I have a RTX 2070.
I thought once you overclocked the CPU, it ran at that frequency constantly. I'm guessing that's not the case and I'm being a bit of a plonker

 

[koooowweeee]

I have a RTX 2070.
I thought once you overclocked the CPU, it ran at that frequency constantly. I'm guessing that's not the case and I'm being a bit of a plonker

You can set it to do that. But there's no need to.