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

setter said:
Tbh, id maybe have been wiser holding onto my old i7 920. Two ib chips, 3 haswells and the various ram kits and boards to go with them later. I could have had a new higher res monitor or a high end gpu or two. Cant seem to resist new cpu's though.:D
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Been following this thread with interest some of you's have spent a good few bob on Haswell over the past year, glad l went x79 from x58.

Saving for x99.:)
 
OLDPHART said:
Been following this thread with interest some of you's have spent a good few bob on Haswell over the past year, glad l went x79 from x58.

Saving for x99.:)
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Very true mate, ive got an addiction to new kit lol. I looked at x79 but tbh it was a bit overkill for my needs. As most ill ever do is two card sli the mainstream setup is ample. Shame intel deliberately gimp them from the factory.
 
still tryin to the recreate the 1st time. (rem' ur 1st e high)
2700k went 5gz on air
4790k is suffocating at 4.7gz

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shamus21 said:
Well are you all happy with your overclocks is the question.
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Not, not really. I wanted minimum 4.8.

I managed to hold off the temptation long enough for all the today only 4790 that they all sold out.

I know 100mhz isn't a lot, but when did common sense ever figure into this hobby? :)
 
Haswell has been a real pain in the rear for me. I wanted at least 4.7 with the 4790Ks and the second one does that with less than 1.3vc, at the moment I'm running at 4.6 with 1.24v, as my motherboard temps are 35c (high ambient temp in my loft room).

I'll be watching the X99 thread with interest :-)
 
setter said:
At 4.7 the 4790k is still faster than the 2700k at 5ghz.
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Well, yeah, but in the grand scheme of things, there hasn't been much of an improvement in performance.

The newer chips have better IPC, but can't clock as high, so it balances out a bit.

If these newer chips still clocked as well as the old, or even just ever so slightly better it would be ok.

But I guess it gets hard when things are getting as small as they are.

Curious to see if Broadwell is going to suffer even worse clocking potential.
 
eyetrip said:
Well, yeah, but in the grand scheme of things, there hasn't been much of an improvement in performance.

The newer chips have better IPC, but can't clock as high, so it balances out a bit.

If these newer chips still clocked as well as the old, or even just ever so slightly better it would be ok.

But I guess it gets hard when things are getting as small as they are.

Curious to see if Broadwell is going to suffer even worse clocking potential.
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It looks like Broadwell will be even more crippled by the heat problems with a die shrink.
 
shamus21 said:
It looks like Broadwell will be even more crippled by the heat problems with a die shrink.
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Yeah, I am thinking that's how things will turn out.

If so, will just go x99 in 2016 unless Amd has so something even remotely interesting.

Would like to go back to Amd, but they need to perform a little better.
 
Yeah, it's not looking good really. Intel have shown they're not interested in supporting OCing for the mainstream stuff with Devils Canyon, same **** as before, just cherry picked chips that have no headroom because the architecture is optimised for power/mobile.

At this point I just hope they don't gimp the enthusiast stuff (x99) given they're using the same Haswell "core" effectively.

God knows we really need AMD back on form, but sadly it doesn't look like they're interested in this market anymore. Unless software engineers crack effective use of the APU and then we might see AMD pushing back. Sadly, nothing really makes use of the extra silicon on their chips right now.
 
littlepuppy said:
OK I got batch L420B724...
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IIRC, the L4s were manufactured in 2014, where L3 was the back half of 2013? (As if there were any doubt that these chips are just a cherry pick of the regular 4770K...)

Be interested to know if the L4s are coming out as faster/cooler clockers though - and whether it's possible to cherry pick the cherry picked CPUs and be sure of whichever batch is better, nudge nudge OCUK ;)
 
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