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Anyone who currently owns or used to own an i7 4790k, I would like to know if you liked the cpu or if you would prefer another one. Did you do any video rendering, if so how did the cpu handle it?

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in short its a decent chip

 

but if you are buy a new cpu you should probably wait for skylake/z170 and ddr4

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I haven't owned one, but I would wait for the new chips to arrive. 

 

It wouldn't be that much better compared to an i5. 

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It is a bit pricy for what you get though, considering for about $30-60 more, you can get a much more powerful intel 5820k with 6 cores and 12 threads, a huge leap ahead in terms of price-performance. If you are building a new rig, wait for skylake, and then reevaluate, either going skylake, or go 2011-3 if you are serious about editing. (A 2011-3 vs 4790k build would be similar, similar cpu cost, similar ram cost, and around $200 for a motherboard.)

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its a great chip but kinda overkill for gaming / gaming + streaming( gpu streams it anyways ), went back to a 4690k

 

if u dont overclock at all... 4790k is a better choice though due to stock 4ghz/turbo 4.4  and the i5 3.5/3.9ghz

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Anyone who currently owns or used to own an i7 4790k, I would like to know if you liked the cpu or if you would prefer another one. Did you do any video rendering, if so how did the cpu handle it?

I have a E3 1231 V3(lowerclock same everything) it renders 4k and about 1/6th realtime with max setting h264 in premiere. It struggles with 3ds max and maya rendering. If you don't video editing professionally go lga 2011/3 or dual lga 2011. If you doing anything non professionally(not for money) get the 4790k or wait for teh 6700k depending on how impacient you are and what your current system is. If your using a cpu newer than the 2600k you won't see much of a improvement, but it will be a big jump for a core 2 quad/ core i3.

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I haven't owned one, but I would wait for the new chips to arrive. 

 

It wouldn't be that much better compared to an i5. 

When you doing rendering in something like 3ds max the extra 30% from hyperthreading is very nice.

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When you doing rendering in something like 3ds max the extra 30% from hyperthreading is very nice.

 

Yeah, for programs that are mostly CPU, it will be a nicer. 

 

After Effects is the same. But for Premiere, I don't think so. 

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4770k, but really the CPU is great for rendering. I mainly got mine for multitasking because the i5 I had lagged a bit with my normal usage. 

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I have a 4790k in my other rig, its a pretty nice chip. If your only gaming just get an i5, if your video rendering you would be better off going to the x99 platform with a 5820k.

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yeah their pretty good but that 5.2 Ghz OC on skylake do

Really? That was an ES chip... Cherry Picked, GOLDEN PICKED, SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PLATINUM PICKED, and also handed down by the silicon gods!!!!!! No one will be able to get anything close to a stable overclock @ 5.2GHZ..... It takes 1.335v to get 5 ghz and I don't have the cooling to achieve that. The 6700k isn't much better than the 4790k, and I don't believe it'll ever achieve anything close to 5.2ghz stable.

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Thanks all for your input I will be waiting a while for the skylake cpu but I may not buy. It will all be based upon the benchmarks and performance of those cpu.

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Really? That was an ES chip... Cherry Picked, GOLDEN PICKED, SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PLATINUM PICKED, and also handed down by the silicon gods!!!!!! No one will be able to get anything close to a stable overclock @ 5.2GHZ..... It takes 1.335v to get 5 ghz and I don't have the cooling to achieve that. The 6700k isn't much better than the 4790k, and I don't believe it'll ever achieve anything close to 5.2ghz stable.

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but what your saying is theres a chance lol (thats the response i get any time i explain lottery odds to my best friends mom)

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but what your saying is theres a chance lol (thats the response i get any time i explain lottery odds to my best friends mom)

No there's really not a chance, engineering sample cpus are almost always golden so they can test the full capabilities of the chip before launching it.

Overclocking competitions almost never let people use engineering samples for this reason, because it's not fair.

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No there's really not a chance, engineering sample cpus are almost always golden so they can test the full capabilities of the chip before launching it.

Overclocking competitions almost never let people use engineering samples for this reason, because it's not fair.

Well im just happy i can hit 4.5Ghz on my 5930K super easy with a single 120 liquid cooler.

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