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September 3, 2014 5:38:39 PM

Getting a 4790k soon as well as a h100i, wondering what the best way to oc it would be, and what the max voltage I should go to that wont fry my cpu

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My build is as follows

Cpu- i7-4790k
Mobo- Gigabyte Z97X-GAMING 3
Gpu- Gigabyte R9 280x
Ram- G.skill 1600mhz ram oc'ed to 1866mhz
Storage- 64gb SSD, 1tb WD Blue hdd, 750gb WD blue laptop HDD
Psu- 750W

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September 3, 2014 5:44:15 PM

The two models highlighted in bold in the table above are Devil's Canyon parts. Only these two products will get the special treatment, and both of them belong in the unlocked, overclocking-friendly K-series lineup.

The Core i7-4790K essentially replaces the 4770K at the same price, and if you have zero plans for overclocking your CPU, the 4790K is still worthy of your attention. Intel has raised the base and peak Turbo clock speeds by 500MHz, so the 4790K's baseline operating frequency is an even 4GHz. This is Intel's first 4GHz desktop processor, and more importantly, this clock speed bump ensures the largest desktop CPU performance increase we've seen in several generations (at stock speeds, at least.)

The 4690K is less exciting, since it's just 100MHz faster than the 4670K before it.

Both of these chips are rated for 88W of peak power draw, up 4W from the prior models. Intel says any motherboard based on the new Z97 chipset ought to support them. Happily, the firm has allowed older Z87 boards to host Devil's Canyon processors, as well, provided they can deliver the additional power needed. We expect most mobo makers to provide firmware updates to enable support.

Oh, one more thing. Intel has evidently been listening to our complaints on another front. The ARK listings for the 4690K and 4790K say these CPUs support Haswell's new TSX instructions for transactional memory and VT-d for virtualized I/O. In a baffling move, the older K-series parts didn't support these advanced features, apparently because "enthusiasts" and "overclockers" shouldn't care about... performance? I dunno. Like I said, baffling, but happily, Intel made things right in the new models.

Read more at http://techreport.com/review/26683/overclocking-the-cor...
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