Intel I7 4790K - A Newcomer first impression.

[centurion_08]

HOOOOOLLLYYY SHHIIIITTTT!!

 

HOW...................!!

 

DO.....................!!!!

 

I........................!!!

 

STOP...............!!!

 

THIS.................1!!

 

THING..............!!!!

 

WHERE'S DA BREAK!? NO NO NO, STAPH.......  SHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!........................... (warp's outside our dimension)

 

 

On a serious note.

 

Hello you sexy people with your sexy rigs. Let me just thank you from the start for talking me into going Intel. In one of my previous post's i was thinking about switching from my Phenom X6 to 8350 and you guys persuade me, not to do so. Couple of members gave me links to interesting lectures and i finally done it.

My first Intel in the past 8 years (first i had was Intel dual core E-something) Now i feel like Rick Moranis goin ludicrous speed. Buying the FX8350 would be a total waste of money and performance. It's so much smaller, cooler, faster. Everything got so buttery smooth i can't get use to it. Framerate's got bumped like hell.

Im talking about 20fps minimum. Never goes down below 65, and that's stock speed. I have switched my Dark Rock 2 cooler to Dark Rock PRO 2 twin tower and on 4.4 i got 61C (prime95) Marvelous piece of hardware, i am stunned. Now i see how AMD poorly does in the field of cpu horsepower. They're not even trying anymore. I feel that if i would go with 4690K i would still tear amd new asshole performance wise. Later down the road i will re-do some benchmarks comparing the Phenom X6/4.0 to this I7 on stock. For shizzle and SCIENCE!

 

Thank you once again for making me do it. INTEL POWA!

 

Regards Andrew.

[runit3]

Welcome to the blue side

[SimpleG]

xeon e5-2699 and tesla k80 combo masterrace

[guitarboy012001]

lololololololol.

[Hieb]

Yeah the 4690K is really decent too. I can play BF4 multiplayer at 110 fps MINIMUM.

The lower cache latency and higher single-threaded performance makes a huge difference for games, even those that use many cores.

 

Game on

[harrynowl]

@Faceman another testimonial as such for your writeup

[SkilledRebuilds]

HOOOOOLLLYYY SHHIIIITTTT!!

Later down the road i will re-do some benchmarks comparing the Phenom X6/4.0 to this I7 on stock. For shizzle and SCIENCE!

 

Thank you once again for making me do it. INTEL POWA!

 

Regards Andrew.

 

Also...if you can, cos it'd be fun.

 

If you know how,...

Declock your Intel part to the point it gets the same performance as the AMD counterpart..

I'd like to know where the Intel quadcore ends up being Mhz wise..

 

If your on W7, this is SUPER easy, find power profiles in control panel, click high performance, click advanced settings,.. find Processor management

MIN/MAX Processor state are two values to tweak.

Leave MIN at 0, set Max to 1% for the declock, to raise it up slightly if its not fast enough to compete, change the max up a tad.

 

This is only for W7, I don't think those values exist on W8, another program may be needed to do this experiment if your still willing to do so.

(If you wanna use the bios to do declocking, leave everything as it is, just change the multiplier down and reboot to do the tests, go back to bios and set back to original setting to go back to stock or your oc)

Either way, your happy with your PC and getting 100% efficient performance from it.

Enjoy.

[harrynowl]

 

Also...if you can, cos it'd be fun.

 

If you know how,...

Declock your Intel part to the point it gets the same performance as the AMD counterpart..

I'd like to know where the Intel quadcore ends up being Mhz wise..

 

If your on W7, this is SUPER easy, find power profiles in control panel, click high performance, click advanced settings,.. find Processor management

MIN/MAX Processor state are two values to tweak.

Leave MIN at 0, set Max to 1% for the declock, to raise it up slightly if its not fast enough to compete, change the max up a tad.

 

This is only for W7, I don't think those values exist on W8, another program may be needed to do this experiment if your still willing to do so.

 

Either way, your happy with your PC and getting 100% efficient performance from it.

Enjoy.

~2.1ghz assuming the fx is running 4 cores @3500mhz from testing I did a while ago.

[SkilledRebuilds]

~2.1ghz assuming the fx is running 4 cores @3500mhz from testing I did a while ago.

Ahh... I have always wondered...

 

Thanks man.

OP - NVM my request,...unless you wanna do it anyway

[ExcitezR]

i went from a 8350 at 4.6ghz to a 4790K and was blown away but the speed of it and the fact it was barely using any power compared to the 8350

[SteveGrabowski]

The i7-4790k is a freaking monster. Can't believe that thing runs at 4.2GHz on all cores out the box without touching any settings in BIOS.