** INTEL DEVIL's CANYON IS HERE & PENTIUM K ANNIVERSARY EDITION!! **

You dont need 4.8ghz on a haswell chip to beat a 25/6/700k at 4.8ghz, theyll do it at 4.4/5 ono. As for temps, yes theyll run hotter if you batter them with stuff like p95. In normal use theyre no hotter than any intel chip in recent years.
 
Gibbo - any info on why some of the first batch of 4790K retail box CPUs have batch numbers indicating that they were manufactured in 2013?
 
But if the batch numbering convention is correct, isn't it extremely weird that Intel had chips lying around from last year that are being binned as Devil's Canyon? Is it possible that these 'older' batches don't actually have the updated TIM?
 
IM wondering about the TIM on the older chips too. Mine runs much hotter at stock even than my 4770k did.
 
Intel will have been producing them for a long time, then launched them when the time is right.
It may be why later 4770k's were very poor at overclocking as the best parts where going off to be the DC sku's.
It's all a lottery anyway unless you can bin a lot of cpu's yourself.
 
well...it says on the forum the OEM 4790k is in stock and available for immediate dispatch...but when I rang up just now they are saying they are not arriving till tomorrow...and the retails will be in stock on Friday .....I was hoping to go and fetch one this afternoon....whats the best bet of getting a decent clocker...OEM OR Retail? or will it be pure luck
 
well...it says on the forum the OEM 4790k is in stock and available for immediate dispatch...but when I rang up just now they are saying they are not arriving till tomorrow...and the retails will be in stock on Friday .....I was hoping to go and fetch one this afternoon....whats the best bet of getting a decent clocker...OEM OR Retail? or will it be pure luck

That's weird. Gibbo said yesterday they had plenty in?
 
yea...I just phoned OCUK back because I can get one delivered tomorrow from a competitor...they are phoning me back to see if they have more in stock so I can go and get one today, they originally said that I could maybe get a oem one after 5pm tomorrow after they have sorted out the pre orders out, but not guarantee. that's no good for me as I have a time window to get one.....if not I will go else where...tomorrow is better than the end of the week for me...
 
well no joy...been told earliest is tomorrow after pre orders have been sorted so bought elsewhere and am driving over to get it now.
 
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