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

snips86x said:
When did you get the chip? Can you provide the batch number?

I think you've got a good chip there. I can push mine to 4.7ghz on 1.238v, highs of 77c while gaming so I'm not going to complain either.
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Just checked it out, apparently Made in Vietnam. :eek:
And batch code is I think X439B311... box was damaged a little so it was hard to read. And don't ask how excited I was opening the box. :p
Bought mine December 2014 in the Netherlands. Good timing to buy too, prices increased in euro's so much after 2015 where the dollar value went up.

Eitherway, I was qeustioning wheter to go watercooled or air before this. But it doesn't even matter anymore, cooling perfomance seems very impressive. (compared to my b3 stepping Q6600 anyway)
 
I'm looking to give my brother my 3770k and mobo and get myself a nice z97 board but I would really want the 4790k to do at least do 4.6ghz like my 3770k does before making the switch.

3770k needs 1.288v for 4.6.
 
Ayahuasca said:
I'm looking to give my brother my 3770k and mobo and get myself a nice z97 board but I would really want the 4790k to do at least do 4.6ghz like my 3770k does before making the switch.

3770k needs 1.288v for 4.6.
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It's 4.4 at stock with boost enabled, so surely 4.6 will be achievable. Mine does 4.6 stable @ 1.22v or thereabouts.
 
I got mine at the start of march from here, oem and I didn't take a note of the batch number - doh! I don't expect great things from it though tbh as at stock CPU-Z reads it at 1.263v :(
 
Yeah I have read the latest ones from Vietnam are good overclockers and run cool not really pushed mine as I dont feel the need at the moment its just running on stock.
 
Ayahuasca said:
I'm looking to give my brother my 3770k and mobo and get myself a nice z97 board but I would really want the 4790k to do at least do 4.6ghz like my 3770k does before making the switch.

3770k needs 1.288v for 4.6.
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I'd be surprised if you got one that couldn't manage 4.6. the latest ones look to be good clockers
 
snips86x said:
Do you have a link to the article?
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I can't remember to be honest it was a couple of weeks ago. Tomshardware maybe and I do recall reading a thread on oc.net about it probably the owners thread on there.

Most of the UK threads I read iirc mentioned buying it from a competitor as they were definitely the ones from Vietnam which were with a free games voucher so I bought mine from there as it was cheaper than OCUK, retail too and so glad I did. I actually ended up with two game vouchers which was a bonus! ;)
 
It gets better still. Put the CPU fan on 100% this time.
Ran some Far Cry 4 and Dragon Age Inquisition. Cores around 37-43 FC4... and cores around 39-45c DAI, seems this game is more intensive. Didn't play long though, just for testing walked around 20 mins etc.

I'l be straight about it, I bought the Zalman CNPS 9900 MAX because of the looks, it just looks good, but apparently its one hell of a choice for air cooling it seems. I wonder how cool the cores would stay with some decent water cooling.

According to bios stock voltage at 4,4Ghz the core voltage is at like 1.028V? Can't recall exact value but it was not over 1.050 from what I recall. Isn't this pretty low voltage? I guess explains why it runs cool.

Forgot to turn the fans back down a bit this morning and my cpu was idle at 17-21c LOL. I will most definitely try to push the OC soon. First though I will replace my Cooler Master V750S into a EVGA Supernova 1000w P2 this weekend in preperation for a future gfx card upgrade for SLI.

Reason I hadn't oc'ed yet is games do not benefit at all from the increased multiplier it seems according to benchmarks online.
 
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