MatadorZA

Well if you are dead set on going with the B85 board then of course the i7 4790 will be a better choice than the i5 4690k. If you go with a Z97 board and are prepared to overclock, I would go with the i5 4690k

Prime 95 / IBT - Heat test (<30 minutes) AIDA64 / XTU - Stability Test (6 - 8 hours)

I have mine at 3.8GHz and 1.110v. Could probably drop the voltage a bit but havent gotten around to tinkering with the uncore that much. And with the core frequency at 4.3GHz, the CPU performance is really decent overall.

They are trying to help you by telling you to go and have a look in the BIOS.

Yeah as ThE_MarD said, finding an X58 board at a decent price might be difficult. The CPU is good for the price though.

As far as i know Prime 95 v26.6 and newer take advantage of the AVX2 instruction set introduced in Haswell CPU's which causes ridiculous temperatures. If you want to P95, use an earlier version than 26.6. I however, do not use P95 anymore. I use IBT as a heat test and then XTU for a stability test.

Prime 95 26.6 and earlier is safe, in my experience with Haswell at least. Anything newer uses AVX2 as far as i know and causes ridiculous temps. I just use XTU and AIDA64 now.

If your room is usually 85 F, which is around 30 C, it is physically impossible for your CPU to idle at 17 C; it can never go below ambient room temp. Although I see you live in Colorado where it is 5 C right now so i can believe 17 C idle temps, just not when the room temp is 85F/29C

Then buy the 4690k. The 3570k will NOT run on that z97 board.

Arent those last 3 the dream for every release?

im not convinced that this dude isnt trolling. i want pictures lol

At 1333MHz your memory is rated at 9-9-9-24 so i would not advise tightning that up to 8-8-8-24. Although, you can give it a try and then run memtest86+ to looks for error. But you will not get a performance boost from doing that, at least not a noticeable performance boost.

Download CPUID's CPU-Z here http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.htmland check what your memory is rated for. It is not advisable to run your memory at tighter timings than what it is rated for as you will get an unnoticeable performance gain and probably be unstable. Run memtest86+ to check if you are stable.

It will not work unless your RAM is rated for (or you got lucky with your sticks) 1333MHz @ 8-8-8-24 or 7-7-7-24. What RAM have you got?

What is your ambient/room temperature? 45 - 50 C idle is very high. Also, out of interest, what version of Prime 95 are you running? versions >26.6 product much higher temperatures (10C at least) than previous versions from 26.6 and earlier. Because of the uncertainty with Prime 95 and Haswell CPU's I prefer using AIDA64 or Intel's XTU to stress test my overclocks. To answer your question, those temperatures are decent considering the load testing was done with Prime 95 which should not be a reflection of your daily use temperatures. I would recommend keeping temps below 70C during daily use. edit: for some reason i thought you had a 4770k lol