Ryzen 5 3600 not boosting past base clock?

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Complete Linux and Manjaro noob - CPU seems stuck at base clock. Not using a Laptop or anything. Observing the output of watch -n 1 cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq, the highest I’ve seen it go under any circumstances (including in games) is 3600Mhz, the base clock of the CPU. Because of this my CPU fans never ramp up and I’m seemingly missing a substantial amount of performance when trying to do any gaming.

Output of cpupower frequency-info was

analyzing CPU 0:
  driver: acpi-cpufreq
  CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0
  CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
  maximum transition latency:  Cannot determine or is not supported.
  hardware limits: 2.20 GHz - 4.21 GHz
  available frequency steps:  3.60 GHz, 2.80 GHz, 2.20 GHz
  available cpufreq governors: conservative ondemand userspace powersave performance schedutil
  current policy: frequency should be within 2.20 GHz and 3.60 GHz.
                  The governor "ondemand" may decide which speed to use
                  within this range.
  current CPU frequency: Unable to call hardware
  current CPU frequency: 2.20 GHz (asserted by call to kernel)
  boost state support:
    Supported: yes
    Active: no

Is this because boost state support is not active? If so, how do I activate it? Sorry if this has already been asked before or it’s a really easy fix.

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Deleted TLP. Seemed to have resolved the problem I was having.

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you can provide new values from
cpupower frequency-info

you get schedutil and better values frequency

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