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***Intel i7 4790K Owners thread***
- Thread starter Boomstick777
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yeah i dont know what to make of that lol
its probably cause i jumped on the bandwaggon of people that said the L3 chips where crapper and hotter.
VIRuS2k
Stop messing around at stock.
It's when you get into 4.7-4.9 range you find out if your chip is any good.
In addition to the heavy AVX stability tests you need to do some others, especially if you are going to be gaming.
Make sure you can pass 3dmark physics tests.
Run Firestrike and Skydiver.
Cinebench R15 is a bitch to run at high clocks and if that runs at 4.8
your doing well.
Stop messing around at stock.
It's when you get into 4.7-4.9 range you find out if your chip is any good.
In addition to the heavy AVX stability tests you need to do some others, especially if you are going to be gaming.
Make sure you can pass 3dmark physics tests.
Run Firestrike and Skydiver.
Cinebench R15 is a bitch to run at high clocks and if that runs at 4.8
your doing well.
My 'L3' has low stock voltage and reaches 4.9Ghz no probs. If anything the L3's seem to be better
Caporegime
Yep, if you have a read through the owners thread on overclock.net, you'll see that in general the L4's are better. Of course therell be a few L3's that are decent, but they are thin on the ground.
My 'L3' has low stock voltage and reaches 4.9Ghz no probs. If anything the L3's seem to be better
What volts have you settled on at 4.9Ghz? Stable too?
I know you posted them earlier in the thread but I wondered if you've improved it at all?
Soldato
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Mines is batch# L336D106 and does 4.9ghz (although not quite tweaked it enough to get fully stable). Does 4.8 at 1.31v fully stable.
I only bench @ 4.9Ghz 1.38v.
24/7 use is 4.6Ghz @ +0.50v gives 1.26v.
Um... Wut? These chips are still new, we're all learning as we go along. The L3's seem decent, not sure why everyone is thinking L4 is better. Take is easy bud.
Nice results guys, I'm not sure where the whole L3 are worse than L4 came from. From what I have read (Not just here) and from my own experience L3's seem to clock really well and have low stock volts. I def wouldn't be disappointed if I was ordering today and got an L3. These 4790K's L3 or L4 are very good chips for sure.
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My i7 4770k 4.6ghz is at 1.266v to stable I do wont the dc chip but because again with silicon lottery not sure worth it even after selling mine.
Caporegime
verygood clocks and temps overall
but these hyped 5ghz chips are rarer than rocking horse poop
but these hyped 5ghz chips are rarer than rocking horse poop
If your 4770k does 4.6Ghz for 24/7 and decent temps, it's def not worth moving to Devil's Canyon imho.
My plan was to use 4790K until Broadwell. Sounds like you can keep your 4770K for a while yet.
Broadwell might well bring the first quad cores that can do 5Ghz on air. Plus much lower power consumption, a more worthy upgrade from your setup. Or maybe consider 5820K + X99.
Caporegime
well they cant verywell lower the stock clocks now,so anything above 4.4ghz with broadwell
Caporegime
Not seen many chips so far that are 5ghz 24/7 capable on reasonable voltage.
Not seen a 5Ghz stable one yet, from OCUK.
I am extremely p'd off at OCUK at dumping this old stock on us.
There has been no explanation as to how they managed to have stock before any other retailer, what deal went down there ?
One can only assume they dumped the runts on us.
I am extremely p'd off at OCUK at dumping this old stock on us.
There has been no explanation as to how they managed to have stock before any other retailer, what deal went down there ?
One can only assume they dumped the runts on us.
Associate
The usual way to get stock early is to buy in large enough quantities that you gain an exclusive. OcUK/CaseKing is large enough now that they can do this.
Surely though they take what stock they can get to satisfy demand; Intel would have chosen what to send. Besides, there's no evidence so far that some batches are better than others, is there?
Given that Devils Canyon is effectively just a reworked Haswell chip it's probably not surprising that we aren't seeing much improvement in overclocking potential over the Haswell, if at all.
Surely though they take what stock they can get to satisfy demand; Intel would have chosen what to send. Besides, there's no evidence so far that some batches are better than others, is there?
Given that Devils Canyon is effectively just a reworked Haswell chip it's probably not surprising that we aren't seeing much improvement in overclocking potential over the Haswell, if at all.
Associate
Ok, is there a general consensus as to the best way to max your 4790k at the moment? Anyone got a link to a decent overclocking guide, preferably with a Gigabyte Gaming BIOS?
Caporegime
Ive seen three now I think (at ocn and hwbot) that have less than 1.4V and realistic cooling methods, they do more than just validate too, they run benches without any issues.
