Taking the Core i7 4790K to 5.0 GHz - Review - A Silicon Lottery

I've been waiting for this.

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Well that was a good read. I may be sending Silicon Lottery some money next month. This will save me the hassle of buying a bunch of processors at once and keeping the one with the highest clock speed. I have no problem paying a little extra knowing they already have the processors binned.

 

Great read indeed. I need to buy a CPU Cooler for mine to test it out, thinking of getting the Noctua NH-D15 (Just need to check if it fits in my case and on my motherboard).

BTW 4.4Ghz @ 1.138v Stable with Stock Cooler, I might have a great chip. 4.5Ghz @ 1.15v... However, these clocks were for benchmarking, gaming, movies and the such (stability)... I couldn't really stress test without a cooler, scared CPU temperatures might hit too high. I'm sticking to 4.2Ghz @ 1.044v stable both for benchmarking/gaming and until I get a cooler, @ 4.2Ghz and 1.044 vcore, it's not hitting any crazy high temperatures.

Also ran through 3DMark @ 4.6Ghz @ 1.155v (but temperatures were way too high with stock cooler, so switched back to 4.2Ghz).

 

When can we expect part2 :the Delidding process and results?
great news and of course it's where everyone wants their cpu to be sitting stable.
i'd pay the extra sure.

'devils canyon delid' you know it makes sense.

 

Hum..,thanks for this nice review...what to say?
Very very very interesting!!!
Thanks,for this important information,even if i'll have to wait for a new motherboard(because of my short money),i think next month i'll buy a new CPU,i don't know yet wich one,i'll see.
Ha ha ha this link is like gold.

 

HH ... you are 2 mhz short for 5Ghz ... nice review , never owned an Intel ( never had the money for it ) .... but next build hopefully by the time I am 35 will be an Intel based pc !

 

I was wondering how you made out with the chip.
Happy for you now 5.0 on just water :nerd:
Honestly I think its a real novel idea,dont get me wrong I like to go down to the local microcenter and get a chip or two to bin every week(with a friend or strangers help because 1 per costumer deals)and can normally sell them rather fast if not what I want.,but seems pretty hassle free

Good luck with further testing Hilbert was a great read once again
oh and like I have said before I love the looks of that motherboard but still cant find one.

 

I don't know where to get one of these boards, but yours will do.
It will go perfectly with my new GALAX GTX 980 HOF's.
So, e-mail me and I'll see what arrangement we can come to.

 

Great cpu review. I wonder how it would perform in games that multithread such as Metro and BF4 or it won't matter since GPU may affect it?

I wish that site existed when I had to upgrade. Would be an awesome Arma game cpu due to single threaded performance requirements.

 

Thanks for the great review Hilbert. I've had quite a few people ask about 5820Ks- we will have some up for sale in a few days.

 

Is that boards stock an issue in the states?

Its quite available in the UK and Norway. In fact doesnt look like many are being sold here (Norge )

 

5.0 GHz - stock (non-OC)!??? Wow!? If yes then I'm very interested.

 

I think you have misunderstood the process here

 

They're quite reasonably priced even without a discount. A must-have for enthusiasts.

That said, I myself think I'm in the market for a Core i5 without a K. Diminishing returns, you see. Lately, I have been running my CPU at stock speed (down from an OC of 3.6 GHz) and I haven't noticed any meaningful change, even though it's 5 years old. What I'm saying is, I have a crisis of faith in overclocking

 

you sir, need to try some mmo, will end your overclocking crisis immediately

 

Oh oh oh ,this one interest me more than the 4790K,but if not, the 4790K worth it.
Thanks to you and your team.

 

@Guru3dHilbert: A lottery? How come there werent any american winners!!! #hashtagPissyPantsAngryface

Jokes.

Awesome review Hilbert.

 

A lottery or not, it is pretty awesome to achieve 5 GHz on i7 Haswell

 

Awesome might have to jump on this!! I got a dud of a i7-4770K can't get it any higher than 4.2Ghz. Might be worth an upgrade if I can get a 4.6Ghz to 4.8Ghz CPU that runs under 1.3v.

 

My next CPU purchase will be from them for sure...