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The CPU is working as intended. When you check to see it at 1.4v, does it consume 90-100w of power? I assume not, because it's still idling. Ryzen shifts voltage and power hundred/thousand times a second. Let the CPU do its thing
TDP is a measure of the amount of energy the cooling system of the CPU is designed to dissipate. Is you're running a full Prime95 with heavy AVX, it will pull more than 65w of power.
If everything is at stock, the CPU will easily outlast your own lifespan in this world. There's been immense changes to CPU architecture in the last 6 years. When you read 1.45v on your monitoring system, it's for maybe one millisecond. Monitoring software cannot detect the context for these rapid switches in voltage, so it will show 1.45v as max, even if it's only for a millisecond. But you see '1.45v, holy shit!' Your 4770 was much more 'dumb', than current CPU architectures. It had a stock voltage, and then a voltage for a turbo boost that it could maintain. This is simplified of course, but Zen has so many more 'states' for the CPU to be in, that just looking at monitoring software, seeing 1.45v and thinking the CPU is faulty is a very wrong way to look at it.
Here is a redditor contribution on an old thread.
I frankly believe that this is a feature by design, and people are just looking at values out of context, would they really sell a product that misbehaves at stock settings??
I did the same to be honest, i googled voltage, found that 1.4v is high and panicked. It could be that the processor is designed to work as such... Correct me if i'm wrong, i'm new to this field.