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I have an i7 4770K over clocked to 4.2Ghz and when games or programs crash it shows that it's boosted to 6.6Ghz on Hardware Monitor but the temps and wattage stay as usual, why does it do this? Is it bad? my PC has also been freezing a lot lately since this has been happening while it is over clocked or not. Thanks

So, basically, the title: I have an i5 on my z97 pc mate motherboard and lately, I have been struggling to keep stable 60 fps on battlefield one. I think the CPU is to blame: The graphics card is a GTX 970 and I see the CPU at very high usage while playing. Sometimes, every some seconds, I notice a very brief stutter: Very small, and the game experience is still good at high 50's on an ultrawide monitor at 1080p, but I was wondering if shifting to a 4770k model would be worth it. I came across a second hand offer: The 4770k, first hand, where I live is 400 euro on amazon. This guy sells it for 250 with the original fan (not plannin OC'ing just yet) and I calculate I can sell my 4590 for 150 more or less.... I think at some point, I will have to upgrade my CPU but, what do you guys think? Is this a good deal? Should I go for another different CPU, perhaps? Is the GPU to blame for the frame drops? Thanks! EDIT: The change has been made!!! I performed a couple benchmarks a day before the change, this were the results: i5 4590: Userbenchmark: http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/2651761 Passmark: http://www.passmark.com/baselines/V9/display.php?id=76071763650 (4808, of which, cpu scored: 7944) i7 4779k (non OC'd): Userbenchmark: http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/2659768 Passmark: http://www.passmark.com/baselines/V9/display.php?id=76136242262 (5264, of which, cpu scored: 10094) You can make your conclusions - even though these tests must be interpreted with a grain of salt, I see a 20-ish per cent improvement on the CU score, now, I'll have to see how it performs on real life tasks.

Hey Guys, I wanted you'r Opinion on what I should by as I am a bit torn. I have a pricerange of about 200-250€ and have some Ideas how I upgrade my CPu. The First is I get a Combo of Pentium G4560 + MSI B250M Pro-VDH + G.Skill Value 4, 8,0 GByte Kit The Second is that I try to get a I7 4770k from Ebay and then upgrade Motherboard and RAM The Problem with that is that the second option is hard to get working. So I wanted to ask you guys if I should do the first option or if you have even better ideas. Just remember my pricerange is about 200-250€ fixed. Thank you for you'r help in advance Vinci480

Hello LTT forum, frist time on here and first post, there's probably a thread about this already, but any help is appreciated. So my motherboard died recently when I was transferring it to a different case and what a better excuse to upgrade, right? Seriously tho I'm really sad, because it was my first build from about 4 years ago. Specs were: CPU: I7 4770K Motherboard: MSI Z70 GD 65 RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro (8x4 DDR 3) Storage: 500 Gb Samsung Pro SSD and two 2 Tb WD HDD's GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 SC2 (recent upgrade) Cooling: Corair H100 AIO watercooler for the CPU Like I said my motherboard died and replacing it would cost about $100+ for something similar so I think I might as well upgrade. I plan on doing some gaming at 1440P @144Hz which the GTX 1080 should handle just fine, but also some streaming and light content crating (editing videos and audio for my brothers band). So I was wondering what a good CPU/motherboard combo would be optimal for this kind of workload. I did a little bit of over clocking on my old build so I would be inclined to get another K series or Ryzen CPU. Thanks again for for your help.

Hello. Several years ago I embarked on a fun adventure of installing a brand new mini ITX motherboard with Intel CPU and Nvidia graphics card into an old IBM PC300GL mATX case. It's beige and has cool angles with purple highlights. This beast I decided to call... Retro Rocket. Now this wasn't the first time I'd used this case for a build, but it had sat empty for a few years and I was missing the classic IBM stylings. So in 2014 I purchased the following parts to build a brand new computer inside an old hospital computer case. Motherboard - MSI Z87i CPU - Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 RAM - G.Skill Sniper F3 DDR3-1866MHz 16GB GPU - Asus Direct CU II GTX 760 SSD - Adata Premier Pro SP900 256GB HDD - WD Green 2TB Optical - Pioneer 16x Blu-Ray Writer PSU - Silverstone 450W 80 Plus Gold SFX Cooler - Antex Kuhler H2O 650 AIO OS - Windows 7 Pro 64 bit This little wonderbeast worked well for me for almost a year, then the Antec Kuhler failed and I had to use the stock Intel HSF. To my surprise the little Xeon was running well with the stock HSF and it was a year later that I installed a Cryorig C7 SFF cooler. It improved the CPU cooling (which I had overclocked as much as a Xeon could on Z87) by a comfortable 5-10 degrees celcius so I was happy. Fast forward to January this year and the upgrade bug had bitten, and bitten hard. I wanted to get more out of my Retro Rocket so I spent about 2 months tracking down the best value CPU and GPU upgrades I could. The Retro Rocket was given new boost with the installation of an i7-4770k overclocked to 4.2GHz and an Asus GTX 970 with blower style cooler, as there was little ventilation in the case. The Cryorig C7 did an adequate job on the 4770k, if full load temps of 75+ degrees celcius is adequate. Even though the GTX 970 had a blower style cooler it was still heating up the tiny, solid steel case like an oven under full loads. The 970 itself would regularly sit at 80-82 degrees celcius when gaming (at 3840x2160 mind you :P) Having used an AIO cooler before I began considering water cooling, but the GTX 970 was much longer than the 760 I first installed, so I HAD to include a GPU water block if I were to install any kind of radiator inside the case to maintain the classic IBM look from the outside. Lucky me, I found clearance stock of an EK Water Block for the GTX 970. It was destiny. So, as it sits today, with all the upgrades the Retro Rocket contains the following ingredients... Motherboard - MSI Z87i CPU - Intel i7-4770k overlocked to 4.2GHz - Delidded and TIM replaced with Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut liquid metal RAM - G.Skill Sniper F3 DDR3-1866MHz 16GB GPU - Asus GTX 970 with EK water block - again using Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut liquid metal SSD - Sandisk Ultra II 960GB HDD - Toshiba 3TB Optical - Removed PSU - Silverstone 600W 80 Plus Gold SFX Cooler - Fractal Design Kelvin T12 - Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut liquid metal, expanded to include GPU loop, two 120mm fans in push/pull ocnfiguration drawing in cool air form the front. OS - Windows 10 Pro 64 bit So were the recent cooling upgrades worth it? Yes, yes they were. After 4 hours of playing GTA Online at 1080p 60Hz with High settings, I averaged 95fps and the average Max CPU temp was 62 degrees, and GPU was 59 degrees. I experimented with various fan flow directions and found the best results were drawing in fresh air through the radiator from the front of the case, rather than expelling air out of the front. With the case open there is an average of 8 degrees celcius difference in favour of the radiator intake setup. Now a problem I'm experiencing, but have plans to mitigate, is with the case closed the radiator starts to get heat soak, and the temperatures spike to over 75 degrees on both CPU and GPU. This is why I experimented with making the radiator exhaust out the front instead of intake. With the case closed the exhaust radiator setup only stayed 2-3 degrees cooler than the intake setup, making a negligble difference. I will experiment with mounting a 140mm fan behind the top 5.25" drive bay, which has a retro style fan grille on already, and I will see how the 140mm performs as exhaust and intake to help prevent heat soak. I'm also going to install one of those PCI slot blowers, oh yeah! TLDR = Photos!

First post, hi! Looking to make a major upgrade to my gaming rig at the end of February with a GTX 1080 being the heart of it (or Vega depending on release date and pricing). Thing is my budget calls for me to keep my current CPU (an i7 4770k) and Motherboard (MSI Z87-G45) along with my OEM Windows 10. Considering I've never overclocked and don't plan to would it be safe to keep using these parts for up to another 4-5 years or would it be an unnecessary risk? EDIT: Should probably mention I've had my current system for a little over 3 years

Hello, Right now I have a pc with a i5-3470 with a gtx 770x and 8gb ddr3 ram. A friend of mine offered me a deal on his 5 year old I7 4770k + z87 asus maximus formula vi for 200-250€ Should i go for that or with the same money buy a new gpu?(prolly a Gtx 1660?) Wich would give me more performance increase considering I game on 1080p. Mostly CSGO,Overwatch,Rainbow Six,Apex. Thank You!

Hi, i recently bought gtx 1060 6gb, before it i had r9 270x. My cpu is amd fx 6300, and 8gb ram. What is the cheapest way to upgrade my pc, so that cpu wont bottleneck my gpu? I was thinking about used i7 4770k, with matherboard for around 165-170USD (150 Euros). Or something else and cheaper?

What's the lowest spec, in terms of heat and power usage, gpu that can be used to offload OBS? I'll be using an i7 4770k and right now the current gpu is a Matrox g550 pcie 1x for testing.

Hey guys, would you rather recommend me getting a used i7 4770k (150 EUR)or a Ryzen 5 1600X (200 EUR)? I would have to buy a new motherboard and RAM for the Ryzen CPU :-/ I hope to get better performance on 1440p gaming with that CPU. Thanks for your help!

Hello! First of all, I apologize for lumping all my questions into one thread, I just didn't want to clog up the forums. My biggest issue is that the temperatures on my cpu seem to be slightly higher than normal. I've been overclocking lately, and I've reached 4.2 ghz stable at 1.113 volts, but I can get higher frequencies stable quite easily. The only reason I can't is because of my temperatures. I'm running a h100i with Noctua NF-F12s in a push-pull setup, with the fans currently maxed out at around 1500 rpms. My idles are in the low 40s, and as soon as I run small ftps in Prime95 or stress fpu in Aida64, my temperatures skyrocket to the low 90s. I feel like this is higher than normal, even though I know the stock fans can run 2000+ rpms, but since I'm running push-pull with higher quality fans I feel like my temperatures should be lower. My second issue is with my custom fan curves. I'm currently running 8 fans in my case, 4 for the push-pull radiator, 1 more intake, and 3 exhaust. I have 4 fans plugged into the motherboard header, and the 4 radiator fans plugged into the corsair H100i. My fans that are running off the motherboard header I have set curves with in AI suite, and they seem to work just fine. However, the fans I have plugged into the H100i seem to ignore the fan curves I set in Corsair Link. They just run at around 1000rpm, and the only way I can change that is by setting a fixed rpm%. I read online somewhere that there's an issue with the sensors getting directions from two separate programs at once, or something. Is this true? If so, is there a way I can control all of the fans from one of the software (preferably AI suite)? Is there anything else I can use to control them all? Or should I unplug them from the h100i and use fan splitters to plug them all into the motherboard? Finally, I currently only have two 120mm fans in the top exhaust bay of the case, but I would like to populate this with a third fan (or replace these two with 140mm fans) to improve airflow. I would like to have positive pressure in the case, however. I have 3 bays in the front as intake, although 2 of the bays are my radiator (even though there are 4 fans there), my two 120mm fans and a 140mm fan in the back as exhaust. Is there a good way of doing this anyone can think of? How does a push-pull radiator set up affect the pressure ratio? Thanks for all the help guys! I'm sorry for the wall of text, and for cramming multiple questions into one thread. I appreciate all the help!

I looked in the Taskmanager and it said that my processor is running for 12 Days now. Wtf?

Hey everyone! I'll do my best not to ramble here, but bare with me. A while back I updated my BIOS and like an idiot forgot that it would undo the overclock that I had set up a year or so ago with a friend. It was my first overclock, so he helped me make sure I didn't do anything stupid. He's since moved about 1000 miles away. So after my foolishness, I looked to Linus for help. I went to his guide for overclocking the i7-4770k, and while I have an ASRock Z97 Pro4 rather than the Asus ROG one he was using, I was able to find most of the same settings (outside of vCore Voltage) and follow the information panels in my UEFI to set things appropriately. Using Aida46 and normal use, I was able to find that 4.3 Ghz seems to be the sweet spot for my CPU. So I might have done something wrong, or I might just be in the lower bracket of overclocking for this unit. Anyways to the main reason I wanted to overclock. I do a lot of Adobe Premiere Pro editing and it feels to me like the export process is taking way longer than it used to. A basic edit with 26 minutes of footage takes over an hour to export. It doesn't feel normal to me, so this is why I looked at my overclock again. (After the BIOS update, I had just thrown it to 4.0 Ghz for the time being because I didn't have a lot of spare time to overclock and test stability properly.) After the overclock to 4.3 Ghz, it doesn't seem to be moving any quicker. However things like Speccy and Aida64 CPUID show it running at the appropriate clock speeds. Could I have possibly done the overclock wrong? Or does this sound like it might just be me overreacting? Please let me know any additional information and I will happily do my best to get that to you all. Thank you in advance.

Hello everyone. I just got my i7 4770K with an Antec H2O 620 as the watercooling. And I wonder what is the best optimization overclock for daily use without problems? Here is my complete hardware: http://valid.x86.fr/z13yhx Thank you all.

Hello, I have no idea how to explain this, but basically since about a week or so my system started having issues. It always ran completely fine, but i noticed something strange. I always play music on my system, whether i'm gaming or just browsing, i just like having my huge library of music to listen to. I use MusicBee to do so. Before i upgraded to my i7, i had a Pentium G3258 which had the same issue but i just blamed that on the CPU bottleneck. I upgraded to the i7 about 5 months ago, and never had issues. Alright, let's cut to the chase. Whenever i open ANYTHING, be it Chrome, File Explorer, or even Task Manager, or even just loading webpages or opening a new tab, my system gives a weird audio artifact like it's hanging for a split second, and since i never had this since i upgraded i'm pretty worried. Temps never go higher than 71 degrees C, and what i noticed is that it's not even jumping to 100% load when it does that, and neither does my GPU (it's mostly idle when just browsing, 2% at max). System specs: Intel Core i7 4770k @ stock ASRock Z97 Anniversary Edition 9 GB RAM (Dual Channel Corsair Vengeance Pro + a random 1 GB stick) Zalman CNPS 9900 Max Blue CPU cooler Gigabyte N770 2GB OC edition, stock Corsair CX650M PSU ADATA 128 GB SSD with my main programs (Chrome, MusicBee, everything that i consider necessary for daily use). Assortment of 3 1TB drives which i got from friends, which i use for games and other media Any ideas guys? Sorry if this post is a bit messy.

Hello guys, I recently bought a Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming GTX 980 Ti to boost my rendering times in Adobe Premiere pro CC. I usually render 4K videos captured by a Panasonic camcorder. So, after getting the 980 Ti, I rendered a video, but my rendering times were same as before (12 minutes on 4 minute 4K footage). So I opened GPU-Z while rendering and my GPU was at 0% load and the temps were also at 40s (idle). The CPU (i7 4770k) was at 100% load. I have enabled Mercury Playback Engine (CUDA) in Adobe Premiere but still it uses only CPU. Anything I can do to make Adobe use my $800 GPU? :\ Full Specs: Intel Core i7-4770k CPU Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming GTX 980 Ti 6GB 16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM ASUS H81M-K Cooler Master Elite 350 Chassis 240GB Patriot SSD + 2TB WD Black HDD Is it because my motherboard is low-end? Is there anything I can do to fix this? Help will be appreciated. Thanks.

I'm in need of help with selecting a good motherboard for a new computer project I'm planning for this summer. I'm going to re-use my Intel Core i7 4770K / 3.5 GHz processor (Haswell 4th gen) for this but I'm having a hard time finding a good motherboard (preferably an ATX board). Also what's a good chipset you can recommend? If you have any suggestions, feel free to post them. Price range: 150 USD Thanks!

What voltage/multiplier would you guys recommend for a stable air cooled i7 4770k? I recently purchased a Noctua NH-U14S as my stock intel cooler was not sufficing, I had turbo mode activated so it would bring my speeds up to about 3.85ghz under stress it would reached above 85 celsius. I want a slight overclock hopefully around 4.2ghz but I want it as stable as possible, whilst using minimal voltage as I want to reduce as much temperature as possible. Do I need to turn turbo mode off? Any advice would be amazing, thanks. System specs: CPU: i7 4770k stock GPU: EVGA 780 SC MOBO: Asus Maximus VI Hero RAM: Corsair LP 2x8GB DDR3 1600Mhz

Ok so i built this system about a year and a half ago with a few upgrades to gpu and ram and storage. Specs: (Relevant) I7 4770k Stock Clock Corsair H80I Bitfenix Prodigy mAtx ROG Maximus VII Gene Corsair RM650 Specs: Non Relevant GTX 980ti 16GB Corsair Vengence 1866 Samsung 850EVO 250gb and 840 EVO 120GB 1tb and 2 tb HDD Seagate Barracuda Theoretically i should be getting good thermals with my setup. Im at about 50C IDLE!!! Load at stock throttles like a bitch. Insane. I've tried different intake on the fans on the rad, thermal compound, different fans and everything i could think of besides delidding. I've built PC's for 6 other people and not one had this issue. I am seriously so stumped and have no idea what to do. Is it a faulty cooler or bad cpu TIM?

I've been running with an i7 4770k since it came out and I've always had a modest but respectable 4ghz overclock on it. Is it worth it to upgrade anytime soon? I don't really use my rig for anything besides some gaming here and there (going to be a lot more of that thanks to Fallout 4). Will I start to see noticeable performance decreases because of this? I know there are people still running with the ancient 920s, so I'm hoping I can get another 2 or 3 years out of this one. Can I expect to do this and still game with respectable performance? This is assuming I upgrade my graphics card and other parts as time goes of course, which is still cheaper and easier than completely switching platforms.

So, I currently have a GTX 780 and an i7 4770k @3.5GHz. I am looking into buying one of these parts but if absolutely necessary both. To get the most out of performance and Frames Per Second, should I keep the cpu and buy a GTX 980 or keep the gpu and buy an i7 4790k or something else around that price range to get the most performance, frames per second, and smoothness. Also, I currently have 16gb of ram and a 750w power supply. Thanks!

I've one part left to order for my current project, specifically the CPU. I was originally going to order the i5 4670k, then thought about getting the xeon e3 1230 v3. However, as I have an MSI Z87 MPower max ac, I thought the xeon may be a bit of a waste for such a good overclocking board. I wasn't sure about downgrading back to the i5, but the i7 4770k is bloody expensive, so is it worth the price difference? The current build, with CPU, is likely going to need to last me a minimum of 3 years, or my time at university, probably longer, in which I'm going to be doing computer science as well as gaming (including livestreaming and recording and will therefore be rendering and editing footage and photos) the i5 costs £183.29 the xeon is £205.80 and the i7 comes in at £266.93 So is the i7 worth the £83 over the i5 and £60 difference over the xeon? I will overclock if I get an unlocked CPU, and will play around with the BCLK if I get the xeon. I'm just trying to work in redundancies, such as if I need to RMA my GPU, then the xeon would render my rig out of action until I get an new GPU, however it will give me 4 extra threads and 2mb L3 cache over the i5. And with DX12 making better use of more threads, it might be the more viable option. p.s. To those who may suggest the haswell refresh/devils canyon CPUs, I haven't got the BIOS that supports them on my motherboard, and have no way of updating it beforehand, so those chips are ruled out.