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I recently ordered this CPU for my new rig I was building and always seem to get great things from Amazon and Intel. Intel never ceases to amaze me with they're great performing CPU's. I upgraded from an AMD 8350 which was a very very beast CPU but had to try the forbidden fruit of Intel's Haswell line of CPU's. It overclocked to a stable 4.5 with no issues what so ever, I gained about 25FPS-30FPS in all games for the most part and my computer just runs smooth with 0 issues. That's the key here is I have not had a single hiccup or crash yet! Pros: - Runs Cooler than my previous CPU. I was around 40c idle and 60c under full load with the 8350 even with my Liquid setup. The Intel runs 28c idle and 51c-52c under full load, so not a huge difference but honestly cooler is better. - I gained alot of FPS and over all Smoothness with upgrading to this CPU, now I didn't have the best motherboard money could buy with my AMD but it wasn't the lowest. With the Intel I made sure I spent a good amount on the Mobo and its made a huge difference from what I could tell. - I almost doubled my Benchmark scores from the previous AMD CPU which blew my mind, I was worried that upgrading to this and spending $280 on a new CPU and $200 on my Mobo that the performance difference would not be worth it. Well I was wrong cause its night and Day, no offense to AMD cause I still love the hell out of AMD. They are still great if you don't have the money to dish out on an Intel setup. Cons: - These CPU's are expensive and if you want the best performance then you will want to buy a top of the line Motherboard to go along with it. So just that alone can cost you $500+ - Non that I can think of at the moment besides the money side of things, Like I have said before its been perfect the whole time with no issues other than my wallet was a bit lighter after the purchase. :) Specs on the Build I put together: Intel 4770k i7 3.5Mhz OC @ 4.5Mhz MSI GD65 Z87 Gaming Motherboard G.Skill 8gb 2x4gb sticks @ 12800 / 1600Mhz Nvidia GTX 680 2gb SuperClocked Edition (Already had this) PNY Signature 120gb SSD WD Blue 500gb HD @ 7200rpm Avermedia Live Gamer HD - Capture Card EVGA 650w Gold Rated PSU Fractal Design - Define R4 (non-windowed) Case (BTW Best case on the Market!)

Long time AMD fan. Last Intel CPU was Pentium 133Mhz. My last rig bit the dust and i decided to get something that didnt feel "good enough" but that felt like it could do anything, for the next few years. Running Windows 8 on my AMD rig was a chore, in its defense the A75M isnt Win8 certified/approved. My last platform was: A8-3850 Asrock A75M 8GB Mushkin DDR3 12800 1600Mhz AMD 6570 HD Mushkin 120GB SSD Rosewil Redbone atx case some 500/550 watt psu BD burner New rig (ne items not mentioned are carried from above): i7-4770k Corsair H80i closed loop liquid cooling Asrock Z87 Extreme 4 16GB Kingston hyperX Beast (2x8GB) 2133Mhz RAM MSI GeForce GTX 660 ti 3GB GDDR5 This processor consistently shows about 2x the performance of AMD leading CPU/APU, of course at 2x the cost. ITS WORTH IT. Single thread apps are way faster, and this processor can out-perform an 8 core AMD CPU in multi-threaded apps. Overclocking: I was able to easily get this to 4.4Ghz stable. Some people get upto 4.7/4.8 even 5.0. I guess i got an averagish CPU. Very much luck of the drawl. Could also be MB limitations. Tried 4.6 and couldnt get it to boot. Still 25% overclock isnt bad. With corsair h80i temps at full load barely touch 70 celcius but typically temps are in the 30's-40's. Gaming it touches 50's. Highly recommend. AMD is great if your an average computer user, internet, email, office. If you do any gaming, media encoding, or adobe/advanced productivity there is not an AMD cpu at this time that comes close. Ill follow up after about 6 months, i fully expect to be even happier with it by then.

Sure it's only 10-15% faster than Ivy Bridge, but so was the upgrade from Sandy Bridge to Ivy Bridge! Some may say it's overpriced and AMD is cheaper and a better use of money. Remember, you get what you pay for ;) I upgraded from a AMD 1100T, a six core CPU based on the Phenom II architecture which is equal to the newer AMD offering, piledriver, in everything but core count. Boy, the difference is night and day. Single threaded applications are nearly twice as fast, and multithreaded performance is about 35% faster, even with 2 less physical cores. But, AMD has more cores! and a higher clock speed! That doesn't mean a thing in this time and world. Best way i can explain it, but keep in mind, I'm no car expert: Intel being a 4 bigger sized cylinder engine, running at a slightly lower RPM, giving out a huge amount of torque. AMD being a 8 smaller sized cylinder engine, running at a higher RPM, giving out an equal amount of torque as the intel. Ah, and the integrated graphics, the HD 4600 doesn't **** around! It can play Battlefield 3 at 40-50FPS at 720p on low/medium settings and max out games at their intended resolution (1200p for me) like Modern Warfare 2 or games utilizing the source engine, like Half Life 2 or Garry's Mod, and Portal 2 too.

I recently had some extra money to throw around and decided to try Intel from my top end AMD rig, 8350, 16GB Corsair Dominator RAM, GTX 780, 750watt Corsair Modular psu. I am an active forum member on Tomshardware.com and have for over a year watched the debates (and arguments) between AMD and Intel fans regarding cpus. Sick of all the talk I wanted to finally test it for myself, I decided to go for the i7 because I was interested in the comaprison between the 4770k and the 8350, considering the 8350 is much cheaper and older. I went all out on the motherboard as well because I planned on overclocking the 4770k, which I successfully have easily on the Asus Z87 Formula board (amazing board). I got a great chip, 4.4ghz at only 1.2v. Anyways though, how did the 8350 do against the 4770k? Amazing actually the only realworld difference I've noticed was that the few games I do play seemed smoother for sure. I ran some benchmarks and the i7 is significantly more powerful in most synthetic tests like Cinebench, 3dmark. It also does have much higher minimum fps in many games I play after I ran FRAPS, which was obviously why it seemed much smoother than my 8350. Overall, not really worth the money spent but I am happy I now have the extra power and smoother gameplay.

This i7-4770k was the core of my first computer build - so I was ignorant what to expect. I did an external build first to test the motherboard, RAM and processor - everything worked fine but the Intel processor fan above the processor (that came from Intel with the chip). it would not spin without a "push start" and was noisy when it did spin. So I did some reading on Intel processor fans and some reviewers said they were junk - and based on my limited experience I had to agree. I decided to purchase an after market Master Cooler processor fan to replace the stock Intel fan. As I removed the stock Intel processor fan from the motherboard was where I learned my processor fan lesson - look closely at the fan wires. Intel had clipped the wire for the fan's power so tightly to the perimeter of the fan's plastic exterior that it impeded the fan's ability to spin and caused the noise. Intel gives sufficient fan wire length so there was no need for it to be so tight around the fan's perimeter and as soon as I made the wires longer and away from the fan it started quickly and quietly. But I had already taken the time and spent $35 on the Master Cooler fan, so I installed it anyway rather than taking more time to return it. The Master Cooler processor fan (212 Evo) was much bigger than the stock fan but still incredibly quiet.

I do a lot of HD video encoding and ever since building my old PC with an ASUS P6T Deluxe and unlocked i7 920 D0 revision cpu, I fully realized how powerful the quad core i7's were and how much quicker they were at processing these video files when multi-core applications demand that. I needed something back last December for working on the road so I got an ivy bridge i7 laptop with the 2630QM. I didn't notice much difference despite the generational gap. I assume the raw speed of the OC'd 920 helped compensate for the less efficient architecture. With that in mind, you can imagine my hesitation to drop hundreds of dollars on a new motherboard and CPU but since the upgrade came out of necessity instead of simply wanting to upgrade, I decided to go with what I think to be the equivalent of the 920 back in the day. It seems like all the motherboard reviews and even video card review test systems all use the 4770k so that also helped my decision. the installation went smooth and I have the 4770k mounted in an ASUS Gryphon motherboard in a Corsair Obsidian 650D case with the XSPC Rasa 750 RS240 water cooling kit with a pair of Noctua NF-F12 fans mounted to the radiator for silent and efficient cooling. After an evening of overclocking and stress testing with AIDA64, I've got it running great @ 4.4 ghz. I couldn't notice any difference between 4.4 and an unstable 4.6. It would boot into windows @ 4.6 but blue screens about 3 or 4 minutes into stress testing (despite temps never exceeding 85*C). I backed it down to 4.4 as it is stable without any voltage increase at that speed and just left it there. The combination of jumping forward several generations of CPU's and the fact that my Crucial SSD is now running at it's full 6gbps vs 3 in the old bloomfield motherboard has yielded massive performance gains in everything. Regular opening of programs, booting into windows, shutting down, is faster, encoding HD video files is faster and the frame rate in games is also much higher. TL;DR So in conclusion, if you're still one of those guys clinging tight to his original i7 system, Haswell will amaze you. It will give you dramatic performance increases in every aspect of the use of the computer. I can't speak for the other intel platforms that came after bloomfield. If you don't do heavy number crunching work that really benefits from the multi-threading capabilities of the i7, the i5 4670k should dish out 95% of the performance capabilities in other tasks (like gaming, etc). I rank the 4770k @ 4 stars. I subtract 1 star because it's a much steeper price of entry vs the aforementioned 4670k. Is hyperthreading worth an extra $100? For most people, no, hence the 4670k being a much better CPU for the money. For the majority of CPU builders, it's a non issue but for people who do the tasks that I do, there is simply no other choice but to fork over another hundred bucks. I know I wasn't FORCED to get the 4770k but if I had settled for less, I would have constantly been wondering what could have been. I spent a few more bucks on the 920 back in April of 2009 and I believe it helped future-proof me longer than an i5 at the time would have so spending a bit more this time around makes me optimistic that this will last me several more years before needing to upgrade.

My self-built 10 year old desktop PC's liquid cooling system finally bit the dust. My PC wasn't working as normal anymore. It slowed down quite a bit. Temps right at 100 degree Celsius all the time. I replaced the liquid system with a beefy air cooling fan, which worked great, and decided to replace the CPU, just in case it had been damaged. It is back up and running just fine again. I don't know that the old CPU was damaged but I thought it wise to replace it in any case. I'm glad I did.

I have no words to describe processor a1 (this trivergatario) hipermegagrandemente excellent I have no words to describe processor a1 (this trivergatario) hipermegagrandemente. excellent product that does what they say makes six video I open a movie in hd blur ray and run 4 sets at the same time crises 3 resident evil 6, need for speed hot porsuit. re 5 and second meter usor processor uses only 45% of it. but reaches 70 ° Celsius I'm using only air system. do not think anyone can get you 100% this beast. eye'm just using your hd 4000 graphics card and move all games in 1333x 768 maximum gaming action and glide like butter. best regards to the gamers population no tengo palabras para describirlo procesadores a1( esta trivergatario) hipermegagrandemente .excelente producto hace lo que dicen que hace puedo abrir 6 video en hd una peli en blur ray y ejecutar 4 juegos al mismo tiempo crisis 3, residente evil 6, need for speed hot porsuit. re 5 y segun el medidor de uso del procesador solo utiliza el 45 % del mismo. pero alcanza los 70° centigrados solo lo estoy usando con sistema de aire. no creo que nadie le pueda sacar el 100% a esta bestia. ojo solo estoy usando su tarjeta grafica hd 4000 y mueve todos los juegos en 1333x 768 en maxima recurso y los juegos se deslizan como mantequilla. saludos cordiales a la poblacion gamers

Gran rendimiento y, a diferencia de otros comentarios en uso normal la temperatura del CPU con overclock a 4.5GHz es de 34º (Disipador TH Macho rev.a en una carcaza Antec P280). Cuando lo pongo en tests de rendimiento no pasa de 70º, y eso pocas veces. Tendría que elevar el reloj a 4,8 GHz para ponerle en un aprieto, cosa que no haré porque me vale perfectamente con esta velocidad. Lo tengo con el SO Mavericks, y tengo mi antigua máquina de windows en un entorno virtual con VmWare. Memoria del sistema 16GB de RAM( Corsair de bajo perfil a 1.833Mhz), tarjeta: Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UDH5.

Super powerful and fast processing. Works like a dream. Definitely worth the price. Clocks in at 3.5 ghz. 4.5 Ghz with my GTX 780 lightening the load in the graphics department. Arrived in 2 days!

Histoire de ne pas répéter ce qui à déjà été dit, voici la consommation d'un PC composé de ce core i7 4770K sur carte mère Gigabyte GA-Z87X-D3H. 2 disques SSD en RAID 0 qui ne consomment quasiment rien. Pas de carte graphique séparée. (mesurée avec une prise wattmètre Leroy Merlin) -> idle (repos) : 55 Watts -> / navigation Internet: le pc consomme 60 à 75 W avec quelques brefs pics à 105/120 et de très très rares à 150. -> En charge @ 3,9 GHz (Turbo Boost): ca peut monter par moment à 249. -> OC @ 4,4 GHz : 350 Watts en stress avec l'outil Intel "Extreme Tuning Utility" - 69 watts en idle Pour les températures: voir mon commentaire sur le ventirad be quiet! Dark Rock PRO 2: be quiet! Dark Rock PRO 2 Ventirad double tour 7 caloducs 2 ventilateurs SilentWings 135mm/120mm C'est donc une machine dépourvue de carte graphique énergivore qui me permet de faire tourner - dans un silence absolu - une dizaine de machines virtuelles simultanément sans sourciller et à la fois un pc économe pour la navigation Internet et les taches courantes. Le tout en 1920x1200 extrêmement fluide avec l'aéro de Windows 7. J'espère ne pas changer avant une dizaine d'années. Je n'ai pas testé les jeux mais cela semble possible. cf. Google. --------------------------- Avec notamment: ------------------------------ - 32 Go de RAM 1600 - une carte mère qui exploite la puce graphique embarquée dans ce processeur - deux disques SSD HyperX en RAID 0. - une alim absolument inaudible: Bequiet! Straight Power E9-CM-480W (certifiée 80+, ce qui doit aider à baisser la conso) - un ventirad Bequiet! Dark Rock Pro 2 dont un ventilo à été enlevé (le 120) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coté perfs, j'ai essayé l'overclocking avec un coef 43 (Gigabyte Z87X-D3H) mais je n'ai pas noté d'amélioration avec une charge de 10 machines virtuelles. Je pense que c'est surtout bon pour les benchs, les gamers, les victimes du marketing en quête de pouillèmes de mieux OU ceux qui ont besoin du plus performant pour être heureux. (du pain bénit pour les fabricants et l'industrie qui pillent la planète...) :-) Et la conso s'envole de 100 watts supplémentaires..... Voire un total en charge de 500 à 700 ou plus encore avec les cartes graphiques idoines qui vont généralement avec. (au passage, préférez la mise en veille prolongée ou l’arrêt complet du pc qui sont les deux seuls modes dans lesquels le pc ne consomme pas une fois éteint. La veille simple consomme quelques watts en permanence, même quand le pc vous parait éteint)

i5-4570SのLenovo ThinkCentreE73 スリムPCに乗せ換えました。 (電源は既に特殊ケーブルを介して300Wに交換してあります。) 際限の無いPCのバージョンアップを自制するため、昔からメーカー製のPCを買うことにしていますが、 やはりバージョンアップしたい病にかかってしまいました。 効果ですが、なんとなくWindwsの応答速度・反応が良くなった気がします。また、 FF14イシュガルドベンチではディスク(SSD)アクセスが25secから20secに減少しました。 どうせなら最上位のi7-4790Kに交換したいところですが、発熱の問題と、 割高すぎるのでこちらにしました。Sofmapの星5つコンディションの中古を買いましたが、 殻割りされているでもなく新品同様でした。i7-4790Kの約90%の性能、最新の第７世代 i7-7700Kから比べても約75%程度の性能があるのでまだまだ余裕で使えますし、程度が良く 安い中古なら買いと思います。 せっかくKシリーズのため、ついでにオーバークロックできるかと思っていましたが、 1150ソケットで Z87 or Z97チップセットを積んだマザーでないと基本的にオーバークロック できないことを知り、またこれらチップセットのマザーは極一部を除いて市場から消えており 残っている製品は割高なようです。今後PCをバージョンアップする時には全て買い直しですね。

I have had this processor for a while now and I have to say it is one of the best processors I have used, I came from a AMD fx8350. I have it installed on a Asus z87-a board and it has proven to be a very stable and quick platform. I started with the stock fan but could not resist overclocking it and soon had 4.3gz, then changed to CM Hyper 412s and moved up to 4.4gz. Now I am on a corsair h105 and at 4.6gz and running cool(ish) upto 81c full load(realbench/aida64. mainly I play Borderlands 2 or Diablo 3 and the I7 rarely gets of 60c, however if I was encoding video most of the day I think I would drop down to 4.5gz and reduce the voltage. This I7 only runs hot after 4.4 really when you need to hit it with lots of volts to make it stable and at 4.3 it is cool enough, so I feel it is really a case of common sense and research. I know not all 4770k can run at 4.4 and above (this is not a 1.2v golden chip), but it has been solid and has all the potential I require. However now that the new i7 4790k is out I would really love to put it through as much as my 4770k as see how it compares temp/voltage and workload wise. It could well be that the extra price on the new chip is worth the outlay. The onboard video card is best for web browsing and very undemanding games really, I never intended to use it but did test it, normally I run a Nvida 660ti. It is well worth considering buying decent thermal paste for this I7 you certainly wont be sorry as the stock paste is a poor performer. Something like Artic 5 etc. All in all there really is very little to grumble about esp if you are going to run at stock, install and enjoy 7 -10 years of use or push it and who keeps a system that long anyway :D