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    Re: Devils Canyon review thread

    Finally some more reviews!!

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    Re: Devils Canyon review thread

    So the 4790K is not the overclocking beast it was made out to be? Seems like just another rinse and repeat Intel chip.

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    Re: Devils Canyon review thread

    Quote Originally Posted by jigger View Post
    So the 4790K is not the overclocking beast it was made out to be? Seems like just another rinse and repeat Intel chip.
    Does seem that way

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    Re: Devils Canyon review thread

    Yeah, the overclocking does look a bit bad compared to what was expected. Let's just hope it's early silicon issues.
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    Re: Devils Canyon review thread

    It's a pity that the top-end doesn't seem to be much higher than Haswell, but at least the factory clock bump on the 4790k is nice, along with the lower temperatures.

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    Re: Devils Canyon review thread

    Did I read right that the "Haswell refresh" has no different chips as the Haswell but just a bit better thermal grease and a couple of useless filtration capacitors? Practically the same as Haswell? < or it is a duck?

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    Re: Devils Canyon review thread

    Hexus 4690k review: http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/71...-22nm-haswell/

    Also a disappointment. I'm looking to replace my CPU at the end of the month but it seems I've chosen the worst time to do it. Can't remember a previous year were both AMD & Intels chip launches have both led to such an anticlimax.

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    Re: Devils Canyon review thread

    I am disappointed... I was waiting for the Z97 + Devil's canyon launch to build my new PC but seems that the wait was not worth it, and still, the current price for DC is higher than the 4770k in the UK

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    Re: Devils Canyon review thread

    Looks like Intel jumped the gun / were overconfident predicting 5GHz overclocks. Still worth it for those that don't plan to overclock though just for the higher stock speeds.

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    Re: Devils Canyon review thread

    Some of the recent batches are looking a bit better, but I'm still holding off to see if any further improvements happen.
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    Re: Devils Canyon review thread

    For people with more experience than I - how much should we see the price dropping roughly when Haswell-E comes out?

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    Quote Originally Posted by heinsmit View Post
    For people with more experience than I - how much should we see the price dropping roughly when Haswell-E comes out?
    Not a lot. you can already pick one up for £240.00 at best maybe £220.00 around the end of year. I would hold out for Haswell E 6 cores for about same price point, DDR4 is going to be the problem area with prices being very high until late next year.

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    Re: Devils Canyon review thread

    Quote Originally Posted by koan63 View Post
    So what overclocking headroom
    are people getting with a quality watercooling
    Looks much the same as the old 4770k.

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    Re: Devils Canyon review thread

    I am wondering if there was a problem with binning and early supply for the 4790K, because apart from the lack of overclocking there are reports of some chips overheating at stock under load, which I noticed because it seems to be happening to mine which was an early one and quite a few other people around the globe are making similar reports.

    Which might be related to how Intel has taken this long to push stock clocks to 4Ghz.

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    Re: Devils Canyon review thread

    what is the serial number on yours.

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