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

All looks good to me m8, 54 degrees average at 1.3v is fine.

All looks bang on to me, maybe you could get a little more from the CPU, at 1.3v mine is good for 4.8, but ive seem some big differences in overclocks on these chips so its just pot luck like usual.
 
The bios puts the system under a little load, so it should always be a higher temp in there, so dont worry about that.
 
Thanks guys. I guess what I am a bit concerned about are the spikes. Whilst the average is relatively low, the spikes shoot up beyond what I had read on the net was a good value. Some reports of watercooled systems I've read have people talking about 58C max under stress, whereas my spikes are in the low seventies. Not sure what their spikes are but hopefully you see where I'm coming from.

The idle temp is indeed truly an 'idle' temp. If I have aquasuite running and piping out graphs of what 'idle' looks like then the temp goes up to 34C! Therefore I'm set up to see idle readings in CPUID or Aida64.

My mobo was pre OCed when I bought it however it came with a Vcore setting of 1.4-something, which I understand is high. I pegged it back to 1.25-1.3.
 
I was wondering which setting you'd suggest to set manually. I've had my 4790k @ 4.7ghz but in Hardline/BF4, it was hitting 89c.

I'm now running at 4.5ghz with 1.2vCore but would like to bring the temps down further. What other settings should I manually change to achieve this?
 
vCore @ 1.1 with offset @ +0.05. RealBench is happy, will see how Hardline/BF4 and Dying Light manage with this later!

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Is this normal behaviour for the chip?

I was having some stuttering in a game, so fiddled with an app to prevent parking, which I later dispensed with. Just want to make sure this is normal behaviour now...

This is my processor sitting at desktop... Is is normal for half (or more) of the CPUs to be parked?

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snips86x said:
I think the stuttering is caused by the parked cores. What did you use to try & unpark them?
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I used this - http://coderbag.com/Programming-C/CPU-core-parking-manager

In the end me setting it to 95% (I could see none of the cores ever parked) made no difference to my stuttering issues (in a particular game), so I set it back to 5%.


I just want to make sure it has actually put everything back to "normal". ie: In the screenshot above, with my machine at desktop, does that look normal, with most of the cores parked?

Have any of you guys thoughts on this tool/setting/parking with this processor?
 
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Yep, a win 7 issue. I had to use that program on all my haswell i7 chips. Unparking was rumoured to help with stuttering in bf4, but as that game was so buggy, (particularly with sli) it didn't help much. Eventually some driver optimization made much more of a difference with that game.
 
Nice un snips, looks like you done ok in the silicon lottery. Once you get it under water it should help a wee bit more with temps.
 
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