How many of you guys here will be upgrading to X99?
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***Intel i7 4790K Owners thread***
- Thread starter Boomstick777
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Couldn't get them to work with the Devils Canyon CPU so now have an Asus Gene V11 very happy with this one.
Thanks for your help though.
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Not me for sure, not paid for this one yet.
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Is it worth upgrading to this CPU from an I7-860 running at 4ghz, have an upgrade itch and good water cooling. 
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I may after a few months when x99 has been established a bit better. Haven't had the 4790k that long, and tbh iv been a bit underwhelmed by haswell and indeed the previous Ivybridge chips due to the thermal issues.
I think when it comes to liquid pro or any metal thermal liquid that it lasts for ever at least a year between changes and does not require bedding in.
Yeah I get you. Been pleased with my 4790K but the other 4770K's I had weren't great for temps.
I think I would be happy with a 5820K / 5960X @ 4.0Ghz, some nice DDR4, and decent Gigabyte Mobo. Z97 is pretty good but was more something to mess with until X99 arrives. I plan on keeping my X99 setup for a few years. By then the mainstream will probably be on 6/8 cores for much less, AMD might even have a 20 core CPU that can't keep up by that point
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Theyre not a bad chip per se, it's just that they could have been so much better if soldered. I unfortunately believed the hype that they would run cooler than previous haswell chips. The two ive used were worse than my old 4770k. Im currently running at stock, and it's doing pretty ok for games with sli 780's though.Yeah I get you. Been pleased with my 4790K but the other 4770K's I had weren't great for temps.
I think I would be happy with a 5820K / 5960X @ 4.0Ghz, some nice DDR4, and decent Gigabyte Mobo. Z97 is pretty good but was more something to mess with until X99 arrives. I plan on keeping my X99 setup for a few years. By then the mainstream will probably be on 6/8 cores for much less, AMD might even have a 20 core CPU that can't keep up by that point
Damn thats some tight timings!
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Indeed, very impressive speed/timings stulid.
My sentiments exactly and will likely buy in a few months if worthwhile.
Just smashed 4 seconds of that previous time by using tighter timings.
Did you set your core voltage to that on purpose
. You trying to tell us something stu heh.
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It will come down to whether the price performance ratio makes it worth the investment for the majority users on the forums But for extreme enthusiast they will buy in regardless of cost. So best to wait and see what the numbers are and for pricing to settle down. It also looks like the X99 chipset could have a long life in comparison to IB and Haswell motherboards.
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Just smashed 4 seconds of that previous time by using tighter timings.
How high can you get your NB frequency to go stulid and at what volts.
Technically i would not advise anyone to go over 4600mhz on there uncore if there running there cpus @4.7+
it requires a lot of system agent voltage to get stable @ anything higher than that
my testing seems to be
1.185v - 2.200v @4.5ghz uncore
1.275 @4.6ghz uncore
1.300+ for anything higher..... otherwise you tend to get freezing issues in memtest86
or system freezing lockups in games... also dont forget the higher you go in uncore the more unstable it makes your cpu when overclocking it as all the heat from the voltage you pump into the uncore gets dumped out of your cpu aswell.
it requires a lot of system agent voltage to get stable @ anything higher than that
my testing seems to be
1.185v - 2.200v @4.5ghz uncore
1.275 @4.6ghz uncore
1.300+ for anything higher..... otherwise you tend to get freezing issues in memtest86
or system freezing lockups in games... also dont forget the higher you go in uncore the more unstable it makes your cpu when overclocking it as all the heat from the voltage you pump into the uncore gets dumped out of your cpu aswell.
That's a good point I hadn't even considered, 5820K will be soldered, so despite having more cores might not run that hot.
Got a feeling once we get reviews X99 is gonna make a fair few people switch over. Only two days to go.
The one problem by leaving Z97 platform, it means Broadwell next year won't be viable until Q4 Broadwell -E, but then if Broadwell only adds says 5% IPC improvements and still not soldered, 5820K will likely still have the edge in performance over the 4 core Broadwell chips..
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When i had mine clocked i used fixed voltage, under certain programs with offset/adaptive voltage, a touch more gets added onto what you set.