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

I've got mine at 4.6ghz with hyperthreading on.

1.277v which goes up to nearly 1.3v at peak.

Temps are ok in real world use. I just touch 70c doing a big Lightroom export and get about 65c gaming.

I think I can get the voltages down as I was trying for 4.7ghz but it only lasted 5 minutes in Aida and I didn't want to go any further yesterday.

Not sure whether I'm going to run this 24/7 although I only use my pc for max 10hrs a week, it's had a bit of a hammering without me knowing for a few hours.
 
how do you feel about your OC?

question (maybe off topic but this thread is the best for it):

we read users are getting 4.6 - 4.8(at best) and then stuck.
so how do you feel about 200-400MHZ OC?
is it worth it?
do you actually see any increase in preformance?
 
dimonakid said:
you should check the nvidia driver forum, more users reporting the same thing.

here is the latest post from 6min ago:

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Hm, maybe that is it, just seems odd that it doesn't happen when processor is running at 4.4Ghz
 
dimonakid said:
question (maybe off topic but this thread is the best for it):

we read users are getting 4.6 - 4.8(at best) and then stuck.
so how do you feel about 200-400MHZ OC?
is it worth it?
do you actually see any increase in preformance?
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I'm going to test FSX soon with my oc and at stock.

If I don't notice any difference between them then I'll leave it at stock.

At least I know it's there if I need it and I'll probably go higher eventually.
 
Got my 4970 installed last night...

Using an H100i temps seem to idle around 22 and tested a bit of gaming and have not seen temps so far go over 41...
 
cwgk91 said:
Hey all, got a bit of a weird one. Been trying to clock my 4790k a bit higher than 4.4Ghz and so far got to 4.6Ghz at 1.25v (got an L3 chip :() This passes all benchmarks I throw at it (IBT, Prime for 2hrs, realbench) but keeps failing on playing bf4 and war thunder. Should I just keep adding in voltage to stabilise or is something else going on?
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What sort of error, any bsod's are you getting in games?
 
We need a competition, best pi score or Realbench.

Maybe try and get closest to one of my results and win some tat?
 
mrclocky said:
Hi Powerpie, I left my ram on auto, its rated for 1.5v and 1.57 in the bios I believe. Need to check.

Here's the stuff you asked for
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Thanks for doing that. It seems our boards are either overvolting the RAM (despite being set at 1.5v or even 1.57 in your case) or have a rogue/unknown voltage sensor. Speccy shows your memory controller as 1.704v (mine reads 1.696v). Also HWMonitor shows those voltages as VIN1 and VIN11... Could it possibly be the actual voltage going to the memory?

The only software I've found that will show the memory voltage is Asrocks own A-Tuning utility, and I don't think it's a sensor reading either as it's too "perfect" down to the last digit without a single minor discrepancy like all other readings. I'm thinking it's reading the memories SPD or the voltage figure set in the bios. Speccy shows the correct memory voltages with my older PC (H67 chipset with 1.5v DDR3 1600 RAM).
 
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PowerPie5000 said:
Thanks for doing that. It seems our boards are either overvolting the RAM (despite being set at 1.5v or even 1.57 in your case) or have a rogue/unknown voltage sensor. Speccy shows your memory controller as 1.704v (mine reads 1.696v). Also HWMonitor shows those voltages as VIN1 and VIN11... Could it possibly be the actual voltage going to the memory?

The only software I've found that will show the memory voltage is Asrocks own A-Tuning utility, and I don't think it's a sensor reading either as it's too "perfect" down to the last digit without a single minor discrepancy like all other readings. I'm thinking it's reading the memories SPD or the voltage figure set in the bios. Speccy shows the correct memory voltages with my older PC (H67 chipset with 1.5v DDR3 1600 RAM).
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After manually setting mine to 1.5v it now reads 1.696 also. Strange alright.

Maybe we should ask asrock on there forum
 
mrclocky said:
After manually setting mine to 1.5v it now reads 1.696 also. Strange alright.

Maybe we should ask asrock on there forum
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I sent an email to their tech support a couple of days ago and they said they'll look in to it. The Asrock A-Tuning software also reports my motherboard temp lower than any other utility (Asrock utility currently shows 25c and everything else shows 33c)... All seems a bit iffy to me! If the memory is actually running at 1.7v then i'm sure it's not going to do the IMC on the CPU any good.
 
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Random question getting my 4790K soon do you guys think I should get a watercooler or heatsink and which one?

I don't overclock however I do prefer silence so tend to use fans on slow.

Am thinking an Air cooler may be worse for hot air inside my case and watercooler maybe set further away to expel that hot air just not sure.
 
i say, get the liquid for the 4790k. though if you prefer the quite id put a noctua fan on the rad, something with a controller.
fan like the : NOCTUA NF-A14 industrialPPC-3000 PWM 14cm 3000RPM (also in 12cm)
 
dimonakid said:
i say, get the liquid for the 4790k. though if you prefer the quite id put a noctua fan on the rad, something with a controller.
fan like the : NOCTUA NF-A14 industrialPPC-3000 PWM 14cm 3000RPM (also in 12cm)
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thanks I think however may stick with good old fashion air coolers, zero chance of a noisy pump or leak :)
 
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