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***Intel i7 4790K Owners thread***
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idle vid on the L3 was 1.264, going by cpuz with all power saving features disabled. Just got it built up so will do the same on the L4. Power saving disabled, cpuz shows 1.200v. Quick test with cinebench, max temps of 62-62-63-59.
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Yep, if you enable speedstep and the various c-states in bios and use balanced power plan in windows. The voltage will drop down at idle. The power states need to be manually enabled as loading defaults doesnt do so.
Possibly a little premature, but had a quick play with oc.
Set 5ghz and got into windows and ran cinebench and under load was 1.32v.
Not saying that stable, but hopefully means I got a good chance of having a chip that'll run 5g happily.
Fingers crossed
Set 5ghz and got into windows and ran cinebench and under load was 1.32v.
Not saying that stable, but hopefully means I got a good chance of having a chip that'll run 5g happily.
Fingers crossed
Possibly a little premature, but had a quick play with oc.
Set 5ghz and got into windows and ran cinebench and under load was 1.32v.
Not saying that stable, but hopefully means I got a good chance of having a chip that'll run 5g happily.
Fingers crossed
That is good to even getting post/booted to Windows never mind a quick stress/bench.
Well I installed my new i7 4790k in my z87 gigabyte sniper 5 board and it did boot to windows but I could tell it required a update to the bios, the cpu ran at 1.4volts at stock. I was using the f9 bios which is latest one on there website for the sniper 5.
I went on to gigabyte forum and found a updated but still in beta f10B bios so I updated bios to f10b now running at 1.17 volts at stock.
So right now I am in testing mode I have it completely stable overclock at 4.5ghz @ 1.225.
Going to test it at 4.6ghz at the same volts and if it needs more I will slowly increase the volts
I went on to gigabyte forum and found a updated but still in beta f10B bios so I updated bios to f10b now running at 1.17 volts
at stock.So right now I am in testing mode I have it completely stable overclock at 4.5ghz @ 1.225.
Going to test it at 4.6ghz at the same volts and if it needs more I will slowly increase the volts
Yeah hit around 93c before I delidded it, after it never went over 70c.
what you setting your ring or cachs to and vrin/ input voltage?
Ahh, had a toasty one too. Currently installed L4 is totally at stock just now. On the first chip I was running 1.88v on input voltage, 1.32 vcore for 4.8ghz. Cache at stock on it too, but voltage read as 1.274 on auto, if you see in the pics I posted above comparing. Cache is displayed lower in voltage monitoring on the second chip. Yet in ai oc menu it too shows as 1.27 Ono too. Seems high as I remember being told that 1.25 for 43x seemed high on my 4770k when I first started clocking it.
My cache when on auto puts a +0.307volts on top of 1.05v. I did lower it to 1.1v at stock.
Are you using z87?
And what programs are people using to say there 4790k stable ? because I can get mine stable in cinbench 11.5 and 15 and 3dmark but not in asus real benck on heavy multi stress test
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OCCT for 30 mins with Linpack and AVS things enabled. Intel Burn test for 5 runs. Real Bench, tick everything and let it rip. Cinebench R15.
Doesn't take too long. If it passes all of them and I can game for hours then that is good enough for me.
Doesn't take too long. If it passes all of them and I can game for hours then that is good enough for me.