Reviewing Locked CPU's

[Peacemuser]

          I've seen Linus look at the extremeties of Intel's CPU's from the i7 5960x to the Pentium G3258. He even took a look at the more feasible i7 4790k. Yet, I never see anyone review CPU's such as the i7 4790s or i7 4790t, which seems to have better single-core performance when at maximum turbo-boost. These alternatives are actually locked, so it takes a lot more work to overclock them. Yet, I'm wondering if that downside is enough to make the unlocked version a better alternative. Any thoughts?

[fplayer]

TIL you can overclock non-K versions

[TheSLSAMG]

Both the 4790S and 4790T are slightly worse than the 4790K in terms of single core performance at turbo boost. They also do not overclock well, usually mustering up a mere 100MHz-200MHz while the 4790Ks tend to overclock far better (my chip hits 4.7GHz at 1.325V.)

[TheRetiredSlave]

A Haswell Hyperthreaded quadcore at 4 Ghz will perform exactly the same as a Haswell Hyperthreaded quadcore at 4 Ghz.. Look at any benchmark that includes non-OC'd numbers for the 4790K, and you'll be able to extrapolate what the 4790, 4790S, and 4790T will do (within a reasonable margin)..

 

Don't get me wrong, locked CPUs are still relevant to consumers (mainly the low-power variants, to people who need a low-power but still high performance CPU), but they're not really worth individually benchmarking because the numbers just won't be that different..

[Rubenis]

Don't get me wrong, locked CPUs are still relevant to consumers (mainly the low-power variants, to people who need a low-power but still high performance CPU), but they're not really worth individually benchmarking because the numbers just won't be that different..

Agree on this. Linus usually does give stock and OCed score, so for lockedone just give attention for the stock score and it will be in the margin of error the same score if he did test locked CPU.

 

On the other hand - a lot of locked CPUs are quite good at OCing, even without unlocked multiplier. I am running i7 2600 non-K OCed to 4,2 Ghz.

[Peacemuser]

Well, has anyone tried overclocking these two CPU's or benchmarking it? Any videos?