Looking for LGA1150 CPU replacement - 4790k died

[mahius]

As stated in title.

Back in October, my PC started acting up and by November it wouldn't boot. The good news was that the motherboard was still on warranty and got fixed, coming back good as new. The bad news was that the CPU kicked the bucket at the same time. I'm currently running a sluggish Pentium my brother had lying around (not even the decent Anniversary one) in the meantime, but I want to get back up to something decent.

Warranty-wise, it's still within the warranty period but of course I had it overclocked for a while. Even though it was set back to stock, last time I went into the BIOS with it. Hence I've voided the warranty, so solution there.

Some might suggest an upgrade to a newer chipset. I'm not fond of the idea when I have 16GB of good DDR3 RAM, which would be rather costly to upgrade to DDR4, the price hikes for motherboards and CPUs and the small pain of having sort out new mounting hardware for my cooler. I.e. upgrading from LGA1150 would be too costly for too little gain at this time.

Looking around online, I missed the boat on getting a replacement 4790k at a decent price. Or even a replacement i5-4690k and non-k versions of each. Stock is nil everywhere, though one place claims to have one on order with an indefinite ETA. Not even OCUK has any stock, which is incidentally where I bought this 4790k from at a great price. I found one place which has suspiciously good prices (and honestly looks like a scam site to me), but other than that, the only other 4790k available are on the bay, with a hefty £80 import fee from the US.

I don't mind going for a downgrade to an i5. But it seems the 4690s are also tough to find. elsewhere has the i5-4460 still in stock and I even saw a Xeon E3-1321v3 in stock for a reasonable price.

What course of action do folks recommend I take? Do I just buy the Xeon and be done with it?

 

[gavinh87]

Xeon would be my choice if I could not find an i7. Going to a 4 core i5 now would hurt performance.
Failing that you are looking at a platform upgrade which won't be cheap especially with dd4 prices.

 

[Armageus]

Have you tried our Members Market? Someone may have something squirreled away - worth sticking up a wanted ad


Edit:
Although it's been overclocked, unless there is any obvious damage e.g. discoloration, then I'd still be tempted to try and get it replaced under warranty with intel

 

[gavinh87]

Ah didn't read the warranty part. Definitely try getting it replaced by intel, they won't be able to check if it's been overclocked if there is no damage as armageus said.

 

[Danny75]

CEX UK has 4770K for £180. Hefty but comes with warranty.

 

[Tee Hee Johnson]

£180 is roughly what it sells on the MM for, so thats pretty damn good.

 

[psychas]

use ur warranty , they can't see if it was clocked also its K chip meant to be clocked

 

[darket]

use ur warranty , they can't see if it was clocked also its K chip meant to be clocked

• +1 just return it to intel , they have hands down the best rma and customer service that's easily on par with Evga. Its not like you fried it under LN2 pushing for a world record at 1.7v.

 

[tamzzy]

what everyone else has said. i had a 3770k die on me, and besides the intel cs asking how i knew it was the cpu (i had a spare system to test), the return was hassle free.

 

[mahius]

Thanks folks. The RMA request went through, I'll be dropping it off for collection either today or tomorrow. Only question remains is, whether I include the fan that came with it or not. It's currently not with the CPU (I have all the original packaging) since it's being used for the temporary Pentium (NH-D15 is overkill for the Pentium and the thermal solution was intact on the 4790k's stock fan as I never used it, so I picked the easiest option).

The most annoying thing about this Pentium is how loud the stock fan is. I can hear it from the kitchen downstairs! I'm almost tempted to put the NH-D15 on it to make it quieter.

 

[darket]

No you just send the Cpu.

 

[Phage]

Thanks folks. The RMA request went through, I'll be dropping it off for collection either today or tomorrow. Only question remains is, whether I include the fan that came with it or not. It's currently not with the CPU (I have all the original packaging) since it's being used for the temporary Pentium .

I have a spare 4790k box and cooler, but the serial numbers won't match. You could have it for the price of postage if needed.

 

[Randall8686]

as you said a 4790k is the obvious upgrade but intel will replace it. as above their RMA is one of the best out there. They dispatched me a new 4790k a couple of ours after they got my old one back.