Latest BIOS should address stock voltage.
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***Intel i7 4790K Owners thread***
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Caporegime
Be interested in your results. From searcging around it seems the L4 chips are consistently clocking higher and running cooler.
I'll post up tonight once installed, seems to be a good batch from looking around the net. I had plenty of headaches with my 4770k being toasty, it will be a nice change if this runs cool.
Caporegime
Cheers, toasty 4770k owner here too.
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All this talk L3 or L4 is rubbish. It's all silicon lottery.
Caporegime
Another quick run on real bench, had to up voltage to 1.2593 at 47x due to blue screening on the encoding part.
If i can get this fully stable ill keep this as my daily oc. Ill be playing some bf4 tonight so will be a good test as it hits the cpu pretty hard.
If i can get this fully stable ill keep this as my daily oc. Ill be playing some bf4 tonight so will be a good test as it hits the cpu pretty hard.
Caporegime
86515 was best I could do
do you still get whea warnings/errors on those chips? don't think ive seen any on sandybridge,not on mine anyway
do you still get whea warnings/errors on those chips? don't think ive seen any on sandybridge,not on mine anyway
Caporegime
You do yes, last one i have in event viewer is from the bsod on my first real bench run. I think they only show up on ivy and haswell setups.
L419B540 coming this friday.
Caporegime
goodluck stasio,hope you get a good chip
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Mine's on its way!!!
Yea,thanks wazza...chip is 7 weeks old,let see......
Caporegime
Gaming on mine just now, temps are so much lower at 4.7ghz than my old 4.5ghz 4770k. Auto fan results in a highest core temp of 61c. Same cooler, fans and settings on the old chip would get into the high 70's. Had to set fans manually to full speed, (which was incredibly loud) to keep it in the mid 60's. Extremely pleased with this.
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Setter, did you have any issues getting the 4790k working on your Maximus Formula VI? I'm desperately trying to wait for the Z97 version but with no news coming out of Asus and with OcUK not having any ideas either I'm really tempted to just buy it already...
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Silicon lottery strikes again, som good some bad I hope they start doing the big OC'ed bundles again, that way my friend who shall remain nameless will stop bugging me about an upgrade lol
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Caporegime
I did at the start but that was more user error than the board tbh. Usually when flashing the bios i do so under ezflash within bios from a usb drive. But for the Devils canyon bios, you have to use the asus update tool in windows. This can be downloaded along with the most current 1505 bios, (released yesterday) 1504 beta came out several weks ago.
No idea either on the release of the Z97 formula, but if you later intend to move to a broadwell cpu, you will need the Z97 board, as its rumoured that the DC chips will be the last on 1150 to be compatible with Z87.
No idea either on the release of the Z97 formula, but if you later intend to move to a broadwell cpu, you will need the Z97 board, as its rumoured that the DC chips will be the last on 1150 to be compatible with Z87.
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So if I don't already have a 1150 CPU, I'd need one prior to using the 4790k so I can do the Asus update? Well that sucks.
