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Someone's been drinking and drowning their sorrows last night ;)
These new ‘overclocking’ chips don't seem to be overclocking very well…
thanks for testing against AM3+ kit = 9590!
oh wait…..
I guess you could say liquid nitrogen is air, just very cold (and you don't need a fan for it)
(Image from
hardocp's 4790K review)
So another underwhelming refresh chip from chipzilla. Must be running out of ideas as AMD havent released anything new in a while :D
Perhaps you did get a less than average chip there. But either way, compared to Sandy, what followed has been a gradual decrease each time in terms of OC'ability. I tweaked 5,4 out of my 2500K but could only manage 5.0 on my 3770K. No intention of getting a Haswell K. There is no justification whatsoever. Have a Haswell non K and that will do for now.
A regular non K 4790 is the CPU to go for…4Ghz turbo is plenty fast enough, £50 cheaper and will be more than adequate for any app/game in the next 2-3yrs (probably a lot longer).
If you feel the need for overclocking speed…replace it with a 14nm Broadwell in Q1/Q2 next year, I would hope the die reduction will finally deliver 5Ghz on air that everyone seems so desperate for.
dfour
So another underwhelming refresh chip from chipzilla. Must be running out of ideas as AMD havent released anything new in a while :D
And this is why Intel don't have to try - they just need to update their packaging every twelve months.
I wonder if it might be worth trying to include some games that do utilise more cores in these tests? We understand a lot of games aren't highly threaded but more and more will start to so it would be nice to see how these chips perform?
I was looking forward to this but i might just get the G3258 for some OC fun and save myself some money!!
“replace it with a 14nm Broadwell in Q1/Q2 next year” will require new MB & RAM.
Any indication that more recent batches OC better?