How good of a clock speed did you get when overclocking your i7-4790k?

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Hi I'm buying the Intel i7-4790k, and I'm wondering how good of a clock speed people are getting when they overclock it, please state if you're using water cooling or air cooling.
 
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Stable, temperatures below 75c: 4.6ghz.
Stable, temperatures reaching 95c: 4.8ghz
Stable, getting to the point of throttling in stress tests: 4.9ghz.
Highly unstable, but enough to do light benchmarks like SuperPi: 5.0ghz.
What I'm actually using is 4.0ghz (turbo disabled) for general usage and switching quickly to 4.8ghz when rendering large files.
All this on a $30-$40 air cooler, by the way.

Watercooling being superior to air cooling is only a myth (not even true), by the way. High end air coolers like the nh-d15 cool as good as a H100i, are not even half as loud (12dba less under load) and cost less on average.
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Stable, temperatures below 75c: 4.6ghz.
Stable, temperatures reaching 95c: 4.8ghz
Stable, getting to the point of throttling in stress tests: 4.9ghz.
Highly unstable, but enough to do light benchmarks like SuperPi: 5.0ghz.
What I'm actually using is 4.0ghz (turbo disabled) for general usage and switching quickly to 4.8ghz when rendering large files.
All this on a $30-$40 air cooler, by the way.

Watercooling being superior to air cooling is only a myth (not even true), by the way. High end air coolers like the nh-d15 cool as good as a H100i, are not even half as loud (12dba less under load) and cost less on average.
 
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