Works really well pc boots in 5 secs

Works really well pc boots in 5 secs

Stock 4ghz turbo 4.5 and Goes up to 5ghz overclock extreme settings. Great value

Stock 4ghz turbo 4.5 and Goes up to 5ghz overclock extreme settings. Great value

Sold my 4770k and bought this one. Glad I did it runs cooler and I only cost about $35 extra from what I sold my old cpu for. I have a corsair h80 and my 4770k hit 91degrees at only 4ghz. This 4970k cpu at 4.4ghz tops out at 72 degrees with the same h80 cooler. (All above degrees are Celsius)If you wondering if this will work in a z87 motherboard....YES it will on higher end boards and some middle of the road boards.I have a MSI z87 g45 gaming mb with bios 1.8 and it runs perfect. So go ahead and take the plunge, you won't regret it.

I jumped this cpu because my old cpu amd phenom, and give me a huge performace compare with my old one. and better thermal components.

Sold my 4770k and bought this one. Glad I did it runs cooler and I only cost about $35 extra from what I sold my old cpu for. I have a corsair h80 and my 4770k hit 91degrees at only 4ghz. This 4970k cpu at 4.4ghz tops out at 72 degrees with the same h80 cooler. (All above degrees are Celsius)
If you wondering if this will work in a z87 motherboard....YES it will on higher end boards and some middle of the road boards.
I have a MSI z87 g45 gaming mb with bios 1.8 and it runs perfect. So go ahead and take the plunge, you won't regret it.

I jumped this cpu because my old cpu amd phenom, and give me a huge performace compare with my old one. and better thermal components.

Intel finally fixed the thermal interface so temps are cooler than the 4770k and 4670k. Also the stock clock of 4.0 GHz is awesome. If you already have a 4770k its not worth upgrading but if you are building a new system this is the way to go.

Intel finally fixed the thermal interface so temps are cooler than the 4770k and 4670k. Also the stock clock of 4.0 GHz is awesome. If you already have a 4770k its not worth upgrading but if you are building a new system this is the way to go.

I Know Fast.My bike will go 170 MPH, my car will do 0-60 in 3 seconds, my girl will,...ah,..um,...my processor is a 4790K.I've said before that I'm out of the overclocking business. I mean, I kicked the habit, but like a junkie I started reading the articles and I see the higher base clock and smoother power delivery, improved thermal interface material and lower temps and in a dream state, I placed an order. Through the gauzy haze of the evening sky, one dusty footstep succeeding the next, I entered,...The Devil's Canyon. Did your lights just flicker too?Next thing I know I have packages arriving and out pops a 


MSI Z97M












,


16 GB of Kingston 2400 Mhz RAM












, a 


Hyper 212 EVO












 along with a 


SanDisk Extreme Pro SSD












 among all the rest of it. It may be time to remove that credit card information, so I have to enter it to make a purchase.I spent $1050 using a 


Cooler Master N200 case












 and an 


Antec High Current 620W












, case fan and wireless along with what I mentioned earlier, which altogether might be $50 cheaper today, you know how that goes. I already had the video card and I'm skipping the optical drive, I'll go external for storage, not wanting the extra heat.I was overclocking back when we used aquarium pumps and chests full of ice water for cooling our CPU's, strange days, but I haven't been for about a decade, so call me an old newb (on second thought, don't ever call anybody that), but I've tried to catch up with LOTS of research.I wanted to be reasonable and still end up with something that would humiliate the 3.4/up to 3.9 GHz 4770 plus SSD I'm using with a GTX 660 Ti. That upgrade did little to impress me over Sandy bridge, in all this recent research that I've done, I found out that the 4770 and 4770K only run 3.7 GHz on all four cores according to Intel. But the 4790K's turbo runs two cores at 4.4 GHz, four cores at 4.2 GHz and all four can be clocked 4.4 or higher, like the four barrel and four speed in a Olds 442. Face it guys, if we could drive our computers to the local drive in, park and open the hood like it was the 1960's, we would.Enough silly nostalgic similes, I want to tell you what happened!I received a recent creation being batch # L419B650 or Malay/2014/week 19/B650. Using it the first day I left it stock and it was weird to be shutting down my computer, but I believe a proper break in requires allowing it to cool and run at operating temperature. Then I did the full burn in and all my heatsinks are sunk. Speaking of heatsinks, this does come with one, that's not designed for overclocking.I first used just the auto overclock and it was stable at 4.5 GHz, I didn't expect the top overclock using a mid priced micro and air. I would of used water cooling if needed, but if the temps are better with this chip and they seem to be, then maybe it's not, it is one of it's selling points after all. After just a little adjusting I'm seeing 4.7 GHz on all 4 cores, a 44x cache with improved RAM timings and I feel like I got a free NOS kit. That's 500 MHz over stock and a 21% faster clock speed than a 4770 and add in the faster RAM and faster SSD and...BAM, I've kicked it up a notch. Remember that on four cores you're starting at 4.2, not 4.4 GHz. It will run Sandra's burn in over and over and Intel's ETU stress test, so I feel it's stable.That Intel Extreme Tuning Utility is really something, you can start playing after dinner and the next thing you know, you smell breakfast cooking. You will want to save your profile in the BIOS anyway, but it shows default and your changes highlighted in an easy to see way.I think I might hit 4.8 with some more time, but maybe not, trying is the fun part after all and I've only restarted it 60 or 70 times. The temps are okay at 80 degrees max and I haven't tried anything to lower them yet so I can up the voltage beyond 1.26, my room is a cool 70.5 degrees F. I've found that just re-installing the heatsink a few times might lo

This thing screams. Paired with the Asus Z97A board and 32GB Corsair Dominator RAM

I know this was advertised an overclocker's dream chip, and it doesn't quite deliver on that, but does at least reach a bit higher than my other chip. Besides that, at even stock speeds this thing absolutely screams, and with it at the same price point as the 4770K, why would you buy anything else?

I Know Fast.

My bike will go 170 MPH, my car will do 0-60 in 3 seconds, my girl will,...ah,..um,...my processor is a 4790K.

I've said before that I'm out of the overclocking business. I mean, I kicked the habit, but like a junkie I started reading the articles and I see the higher base clock and smoother power delivery, improved thermal interface material and lower temps and in a dream state, I placed an order. Through the gauzy haze of the evening sky, one dusty footstep succeeding the next, I entered,...The Devil's Canyon. Did your lights just flicker too?

Next thing I know I have packages arriving and out pops a MSI Z97M,16 GB of Kingston 2400 Mhz RAM, a Hyper 212 EVO along with a SanDisk Extreme Pro SSD among all the rest of it. It may be time to remove that credit card information, so I have to enter it to make a purchase.

I spent $1050 using a Cooler Master N200 case and an Antec High Current 620W, case fan and wireless along with what I mentioned earlier, which altogether might be $50 cheaper today, you know how that goes. I already had the video card and I'm skipping the optical drive, I'll go external for storage, not wanting the extra heat.

I was overclocking back when we used aquarium pumps and chests full of ice water for cooling our CPU's, strange days, but I haven't been for about a decade, so call me an old newb (on second thought, don't ever call anybody that), but I've tried to catch up with LOTS of research.

I wanted to be reasonable and still end up with something that would humiliate the 3.4/up to 3.9 GHz 4770 plus SSD I'm using with a GTX 660 Ti. That upgrade did little to impress me over Sandy bridge, in all this recent research that I've done, I found out that the 4770 and 4770K only run 3.7 GHz on all four cores according to Intel. But the 4790K's turbo runs two cores at 4.4 GHz, four cores at 4.2 GHz and all four can be clocked 4.4 or higher, like the four barrel and four speed in a Olds 442. Face it guys, if we could drive our computers to the local drive in, park and open the hood like it was the 1960's, we would.

Enough silly nostalgic similes, I want to tell you what happened!

I received a recent creation being batch # L419B650 or Malay/2014/week 19/B650. Using it the first day I left it stock and it was weird to be shutting down my computer, but I believe a proper break in requires allowing it to cool and run at operating temperature. Then I did the full burn in and all my heatsinks are sunk. Speaking of heatsinks, this does come with one, that's not designed for overclocking.

I first used just the auto overclock and it was stable at 4.5 GHz, I didn't expect the top overclock using a mid priced micro and air. I would of used water cooling if needed, but if the temps are better with this chip and they seem to be, then maybe it's not, it is one of it's selling points after all. After just a little adjusting I'm seeing 4.7 GHz on all 4 cores, a 44x cache with improved RAM timings and I feel like I got a free NOS kit. That's 500 MHz over stock and a 21% faster clock speed than a 4770 and add in the faster RAM and faster SSD and...BAM, I've kicked it up a notch. Remember that on four cores you're starting at 4.2, not 4.4 GHz. It will run Sandra's burn in over and over and Intel's ETU stress test, so I feel it's stable.

That Intel Extreme Tuning Utility is really something, you can start playing after dinner and the next thing you know, you smell breakfast cooking. You will want to save your profile in the BIOS anyway, but it shows default and your changes highlighted in an easy to see way.

I think I might hit 4.8 with some more time, but maybe not, trying is the fun part after all and I've only restarted it 60 or 70 times. The temps are okay at 80 degrees max and I haven't tried anything to lower them yet so I can up the voltage beyond 1.26, my room is a cool 70.5 degrees F. I've found that just re-installing the heatsink a few times might lower them 5 degrees, because the best install is rarely the first try. Maybe I'll try a second fan on that big ol' rad he ate her. The rated max te

This thing screams. Paired with the Asus Z97A board and 32GB Corsair Dominator RAM

I know this was advertised an overclocker's dream chip, and it doesn't quite deliver on that, but does at least reach a bit higher than my other chip. Besides that, at even stock speeds this thing absolutely screams, and with it at the same price point as the 4770K, why would you buy anything else?

Extremely fast and reliable processor

Rips through everything fast, and doesn't require a lot of power to run. I'm running a pretty decent videocard, with this CPU and a Z97 motherboard and a couple SSDs. Only needed a high quality 500 watt power supply to power it all.

Best processor i owned

excellent processor, intel to now if I solved the problems that had cooling the 4770K and 3770K, let alone the rendimietno. highly recommended if you're a fan of technology