***Intel i7 4790K Owners thread***

[wazza300]

I'm not one to pussyfoot around trying to get lowest volts, or temps. All i want is silence and as long as whatever i'm cooling doesn't go over my comfortable temps then i'm an easy bunny

Set voltage i'm happy for 24/7, set multi and then memory and i'm off. I could lower temps is i let the chip downvolt, i could get lower voltage if i spent an age stress testing. Don't have the patience or time.

All i care about is my best frequency for said benchmarks.

haha fair enough,if you a busy guy then I understand,i just like mine to sip electricity n **** low temps

 

[Boomstick777]

Jesus Boomstick. 4.9! Congratulations buddy.

Thanks bud, liking this one

Your 4770K is [email protected]?

No the 4790K, that other guy was saying 'you're not missing much' regarding the 4790K. I was saying I went from a 4770K that was to hot @ 4.4ghz, to a stable chip @ 4.9ghz @ 1.38v, all using the same build. So it's a massive difference for me, obviously the chip is vastly improved. Same price point and much cooler / better overclocking. I mean I can't see any reason to be negative about it but there are always some who will moan

4.9Ghz below,

 

[Five.Stars]

Those are great temps for that voltage mate. Pretty similar to what I am getting using RealBench at 48x multi with 1.310v. Reckon I would be about 5 degrees hotter at least if I put another .07v through it.

Got it to pass the RealBench benchmark, although as I say it failed the stress test just shy of the 15 minute test I had set, so still not 100% stable yet, but I will get there hopefully.

 

[Tonester0011]

You really need to tighten your memory Boom. Same ICs as my sticks, only mine wont tighten so reckon some PEBKAC from me
4.9Ghz with tight 2400 memory should easily net you over 1000points on R15.

 

[Five.Stars]

Here is my RealBench results for anyone to compare to:

Sat Jun 21 2014
20:16:43


Image Editing: 129695
Time: 66.155

Encoding: 102150
Time: 117.356

OpenCL: 109875
KSamples/sec: 2842

Heavy Multitasking: 93063
Time: 105.089


System Score: 86720



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That is with 48x multi @1.310v. Hottest core temps recorded with hwinfo were; 79, 78, 79, 73

 

[wazza300]

^^ I scored 86515

ive also read these devils canyon chips tend to be more stable with offset voltage rather than fixed,idk how true it is

 

[Five.Stars]

What speed is your chip wazza? (4770K I presume?)

Yeah I will need to do a bit of reading on how to use offset properly and also any other tweaks. Would be quite happy with 4.8. Running RAM at 2000Mhz just now although it is 2133Mhz sticks. Again will need to look at the timings and stuff as well when the time allows for it.

 

[wazza300]

3770k

but it was a bench run at 5ghz,normal 4.8ghz was 82722,theres a thread somewhere with results

I havnt used haswell so cant help much,but its not much different from ivy,offset is easy once you get the hang of it,it wont affect stability either

 

[Five.Stars]

 

[Boomstick777]

You really need to tighten your memory Boom. Same ICs as my sticks, only mine wont tighten so reckon some PEBKAC from me
4.9Ghz with tight 2400 memory should easily net you over 1000points on R15.

Ah ok bud, not really looked into the memory yet, I just set to extreme profile 1 or whatever it's called lol.

Will try and tighten them up.

 

[setter]

Any of you guys using an Asus z87 board with theese chips? Just read on another forum i frequent were one user is having issues with the 4790k on an Rog Maximus 6 extreme.

 

[PCZ]

Yes
Hero VI

 

[Five.Stars]

Any of you guys using an Asus z87 board with theese chips? Just read on another forum i frequent were one user is having issues with the 4790k on an Rog Maximus 6 extreme.

I am on a Hero VI mate - has he updated BIOS to 1504?

 

[setter]

Yes
Hero VI

All working fine PCZ i assume? Guy mentioned bios ver 1504 and 1505, not sure if a typo as in only aware of ver 1504 for theese boards. Ill be flashing mine tomorrow prior to swapping out cpu's.

 

[Five.Stars]

Working fine here. Couple stability issues down to overclocking as to be expected, but other than that working perfect.

I updated BIOS in Windows using the BIOS updater tool that was included with the new BIOS. Took a few minutes and obviously wipes any previous overclock settings or profiles (which you cannot use even if backed up due to different BIOS versions).

 

[malachi]

Working fine on my Asus z87 Pro.

 

[RetrogamerX]

Asus Hero z97 volts on load are 1.216

 

[wazza300]

that's good retro for 4.5ghz

 

[setter]

Good to hear guys, in currently on 1402 for the formula. A bios that needs a bit more vcore than previously on my current chip. Oc'ing the 4790k will be a starting from scratch for me as i had a known baseline to work from on the 4770k based on its last owners experience.

 

[wazza300]

pull your finger out setter,id have had it built by now

cant be any worse than your old cpu