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

Spent a couple of hours reading this thread after getting the 'upgrade' itch (from a 2600k) and atm I can't see it being worthwhile.

Has anyone else gone from 2600k to 4790K?
 
Theyll run cool enough in normal use with a half decent cooler. Just now ive been gaming on mine. Bf4 which is a pretty demanding game, max temp of 66c at 4.7ghz on 1.300 vcore. This is along with two heat dumping gpu's running at 76 and 60c in my case. Its only when you assault theese chips with stress programs like p95, ibt etc that they get very hot. 85c encoding on the stock cooler at stock speed doesnt surprise me at all tbh. Intel would be far better of not including one and using the money saved to improve the thermal paste on theese chips
 
I disabled Turbo boost and went through 50 runs of Intel Burn Test, reaching an absolute max of 89c. I'm hopeful that a decent cooler will shave a good 15c off these scores.:/ I can take some solace in knowing that no real world application is ever going to tax it that hard but depressed that it seems to have zero margin for any overclocking or being able to safely activate it's own inherent turbo mode.
 
Ok I'm a bit concerned about my 4790k having tried AIDA64 with it.

I recently purchased a h60 as it's a good fit for my case and I'm not desperate for a huge overclock but I wanted to get my stock temps down.

My stock temps were about 40 idle and could touch 90+ when Lightroon was busy so I thought that wasn't good enough.

Before I fitted I took a note of my temps and tried running AIDA64. It wasn't long before temps were at 95 so I cancelled the test. The system locked up but the mouse still moved around and all was fine when I rebooted so I just went straight to adding the h60.

My idle and load temps are at least 10 degrees cooler in normal use so I'm pretty sure I've installed the thing correctly (clean old paste off, didn't touch anything etc.).

Normal volts in BIOS are 1.218 at stock.

However I tried Aida64 with the h60 and it soon got to throttling point of 2% (the yellow line didn't dip from 100% though) so I stopped the test again. This time it didn't lock up.

By now it was bedtime so I've come to work wondering what to do.

My BIOS is at stock other than XMP for RAM and my power is at High Performance 100% etc.

I don't think my voltages were too high when I looked at HW Monitor afterwards but could it be that I should lock down my volts before trying again?

Thanks a lot.
 
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New build with 4790k and wondering if these temps are norm. Everything is set at stock/auto. I'm using a gigabyte z97x-ud3h mobo with latest bios (f7) w/ evo 212 cooler. Idle is around ~30c and load upper 60's. Playing BF4 last night and saw a peak of 67c. In CS:GO I saw a peak of 66c. Vcore in bios is 1.269 I believe.
 
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pbrain said:
Spent a couple of hours reading this thread after getting the 'upgrade' itch (from a 2600k) and atm I can't see it being worthwhile.

Has anyone else gone from 2600k to 4790K?
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ya, from 2700k.
those Sandy were such a FiNE SeXY Chips (sold main).
the oc, the stability, the temps, need for heatsink.... everything about those sandy is pinching my hart now.
 
MB for this awesome cpu :)

Hi my friends.

I'm finally getting my 4790k, so I wonder which motherboard would u say is "the best" to get in terms of OC and utilities(sound etc, something extra and useful for the future).
Im in range of 150£-200£ and thinking of these:
1. Asus Z97 Deluxe
2. MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC
3. Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Force
4. Asus Maximus VII Hero

Which one you would say brings something "nice", something I should not miss....?

Thank you for your opinion! :)
 
dimonakid said:
ya, from 2700k.
those Sandy were such a FiNE SeXY Chips (sold main).
the oc, the stability, the temps, need for heatsink.... everything about those sandy is pinching my hart now.
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Is there a decent difference from sandy to the 4790K? Was it worth it in your opion? cheers.
 
pbrain said:
Is there a decent difference from sandy to the 4790K? Was it worth it in your opion? cheers.
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no.
no decent difference.
no, it was not worth it.

after i said that......
in my opinion, or through my eyes, it seems that as the Tech getting smaller and faster, the heat is not going down.
iv got the ASUS 780Ti and boy this one is hot. we already see the hybrid gpus (and we know there are more to come).

if i could take what i know today and go back a year......i would have stayed with 2700k and gtx680.... and just waited for the (Volta) pascal and skylake. so all the lessons that needs to be learned from the new DDR4 + X99 + Maxwell.. would be learned and fixed.
 
dimonakid said:
no.
no decent difference.
no, it was not worth it.

after i said that......
in my opinion, or through my eyes, it seems that as the Tech getting smaller and faster, the heat is not going down.
iv got the ASUS 780Ti and boy this one is hot. we already see the hybrid gpus (and we know there are more to come).

if i could take what i know today and go back a year......i would have stayed with 2700k and gtx680.... and just waited for the (Volta) pascal and skylake. so all the lessons that needs to be learned from the new DDR4 + X99 + Maxwell.. would be learned and fixed.
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That's a shame about your 780Ti, i've got the Evga 780Ti SC with standard cooler, it runs fine and i never hear the fan kick up.
I was thinking the same about either Broadwell (if it comes to 1150) or wait it out for Skylake.
for now it seems i'll just have to ignore the itch!
 
fluffydelusions said:
New build with 4790k and wondering if these temps are norm. Everything is set at stock/auto. I'm using a gigabyte z97x-ud3h mobo with latest bios (f7) w/ evo 212 cooler. Idle is around ~30c and load upper 60's. Playing BF4 last night and saw a peak of 67c. In CS:GO I saw a peak of 66c. Vcore in bios is 1.269 I believe.
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Make sure that you have the latest bios for your mobo, so that vcore isn't being set too high. 67c in games seems a wee bit high, not dangerous by any means though. I'm seeing mid 60's at 4.7 in games, though I do have a much larger cooler, cpu at 4.7ghz on 1.3v
 
pbrain said:
That's a shame about your 780Ti, i've got the Evga 780Ti SC with standard cooler, it runs fine and i never hear the fan kick up.
I was thinking the same about either Broadwell (if it comes to 1150) or wait it out for Skylake.
for now it seems i'll just have to ignore the itch!
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thanks,
so its evga.... can you measure the vrm (i think you cant) _ (they dont place a sensor there).

take your Core temp and add 15º - 20º .. and you will get your VRM temp. (it will be 100º give or take a few). thats the unlocked gk110.
if they had install the 3slot cooler or the hybrid then the 780Ti was cool, but with the temps its generating thses days.. i would have stayed with my gtx680

the only good cooled card is the gigabyte Windforce, the heatsink does an excelent job but the acatual card... well i dont like its preformance.

the point is (from my POV), the recent HW cant handle being cooled only on air and traditional heatsinks.
 
You can oc them fine and they'll run cool enough, as long as you avoid stress tests, something that Intel themselves reccomend.
 
setter said:
Make sure that you have the latest bios for your mobo, so that vcore isn't being set too high. 67c in games seems a wee bit high, not dangerous by any means though. I'm seeing mid 60's at 4.7 in games, though I do have a much larger cooler, cpu at 4.7ghz on 1.3v
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Yeah I have the latest bios installed. If I turn off turbo boost temps go down 10-15c on load. I've heard about under volting to lower temps but have no idea how to do that. Vcore on auto is set at 1.269 using the latest bios
 
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Having to run with turbo disabled just to stay in the early 80's while video encoding and that's with a reseat and the latest BIOS. Stock fan is clearly trash so can somebody recommend me a specific model of cooler that they have either used or knows to work well with this chip?

I was thinking maybe the Noctua NH-D15 or one of the Corsair Hydro models? I'd appreciate some help with the choice. :)
 
Hi again

So I'm deciding between Asus Maximus VII Hero and Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Force for my i7 4790k.

Im a gamer so I like Asus ROG, not sure what else could Z97X-SOC Force bring, in terms of OCing. Do u think theres some "big" difference between them two ?
 
setter said:
Are you running the latest bios for your board? A lot of early versions would set pretty high vcore and a higher 4400mhz cache/uncore clock. Running real bench results in a max temp of 81c for mine, 4.7ghz on 1.300v. Air cooled with a k2 and dual 2350rpm corsair sp PWM fans.
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yes, latest bios, first thing i did on the board, before installing anything, cmos clear, new bios in, cleared cmos, loaded defaults then got started.

seems i've just got one that likes to run hot, previous user reported i think mid 70's max but don't know if when gaming or stress testing, i do know from the realtemp logs it's hit mid 70's while playing flight sim X and close to 80 a couple of times.
 
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