Intel i7 4790K Owners thread

fat4l · 1 Dec 2014 at 17:10

The Matrix said:
I know idle temps are not the most important thing, could a few people just do us a quick favour. What does your 4790K idles at ?

Mine are as follows

Core #0 30
Core #1 27
Core #2 27
Core #3 30

Do those seem pretty normal for this CPU.

yes completelly normal

dimonakid · 1 Dec 2014 at 17:22

32
29
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30

rounddodger · 1 Dec 2014 at 20:10

The Matrix said:
I know idle temps are not the most important thing, could a few people just do us a quick favour. What does your 4790K idles at ?

Mine are as follows

Core #0 30
Core #1 27
Core #2 27
Core #3 30

Do those seem pretty normal for this CPU.

setter · 1 Dec 2014 at 20:23

This was taken a few minutes after dropping out of a round of bf4.

My gpu's add a fair bit of heat to the case which ups cpu temps a bit.

Sencha · 2 Dec 2014 at 11:38

The Matrix said:
I know idle temps are not the most important thing, could a few people just do us a quick favour. What does your 4790K idles at ?

Mine are as follows

Core #0 30
Core #1 27
Core #2 27
Core #3 30

Do those seem pretty normal for this CPU.

Exactly the same as mine

The Matrix · 2 Dec 2014 at 15:30

Cheers lads

It was more just so you know what your starting off with, you have a benchmark from then on.

Shampoo · 2 Dec 2014 at 19:27

One more for you. After a few hours of Resi 4 HD (which probably isn't that taxing).

McGraw · 3 Dec 2014 at 15:25

It's hardly breaking sweat.

Run something more strenuous.

jakesnake · 3 Dec 2014 at 22:44

Hi, im taking a hand count for intel.

Hands up if you already had a Quadcore cpu and DDR3 memory before you bought a 4790k based system with new memory.

thanks

JakePNEFC · 4 Dec 2014 at 02:29

Worth upgrading from a i53570k ?

Dicehunter · 4 Dec 2014 at 02:38

JakePNEFC said:
Worth upgrading from a i53570k ?

Nope not really, Even Skylake isn't really looking like much from the info available.

Shampoo · 4 Dec 2014 at 04:10

McGraw said:
It's hardly breaking sweat.

Run something more strenuous.

Few hours of Blu-ray encoding. Nothing I do (including synthetic testing) will take me over 61c. Delid and liquid pro with water cooling. I'd like to overclock it but at the minute it doesn't seem worth it. It eats everything I throw at it.

setter · 4 Dec 2014 at 09:33

JakePNEFC said:
Worth upgrading from a i53570k ?

If you need the extra threads a 3770k will drop straight into your current board.

McGraw · 5 Dec 2014 at 18:12

Shampoo said:
Few hours of Blu-ray encoding. Nothing I do (including synthetic testing) will take me over 61c. Delid and liquid pro with water cooling. I'd like to overclock it but at the minute it doesn't seem worth it. It eats everything I throw at it.

If you can resist overclocking it having delidded it and water cooled it then you must be some sort of masochist

You know you have to overclock it right?

setter · 5 Dec 2014 at 18:16

Not overclocked, shocking tbh. If your brave enough to delid, overclocking is a cake walk.

OhEsEcks · 5 Dec 2014 at 18:48

Got one of these in the post and an MSI Z97S SLI Plus. As much as I liked the cost of the 8230E AMD chip, the AMD chipsets and southbridges have given me nothing but headaches under Linux. So back to Intel.

What's the safe max voltage to put through these? Having a butchers through the thread, seems to be 1.35v. Is that on air or water?

setter · 5 Dec 2014 at 19:02

1.35v on air for 24/7 use. But do not stress test with p95/ibt etc. The temps will hit insanely high levels.

OhEsEcks · 5 Dec 2014 at 19:37

setter said:
1.35v on air for 24/7 use. But do not stress test with p95/ibt etc. The temps will hit insanely high levels.

Noted. I doubt I will go for max voltage / max clock. What do you recommend instead of IBT? It's what I was using on the 8320E.

setter · 5 Dec 2014 at 19:53

Asus real bench, 5 passes of it and games. My system has been solid for months now. Or as I call it, boringly reliable.

fat4l · 6 Dec 2014 at 19:10

setter said:
Asus real bench, 5 passes of it and games. My system has been solid for months now. Or as I call it, boringly reliable.

5 passes of .. ? "the whole benchmark" ?

Anyway...
I switched to wcooling.
I dropped my temps by 25C which is insane :cool:

Before I was doing 4800mhz + 1.3v stable.
Now with this wcooling im doing 4800mhz + 1.22v....... 0.08v drop! :eek:

I can do 4900mhz with 1.29v.
I can do 5000mhz with 1.4v(testing in progress).

With 1.4v I passed 10x Real bench benchmark no problem. It failed the stress test after 5hours.

With 1.41v it failed after 6 hours.

What do u think? Can I consider this to be "stable nuff" ?

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