Shih used the ASRock Z97 OC Formula motherboard to get there, and a huge 1.792V on the CPU to reach the milestone. The Core i7-4790K used was an Engineering Sample (like most for these overclocks ...

OC reports are a new feature at TweakTown. Steve looks at three Intel 4790K Devil's Canyon chips with C0 steppings and overclocks them as far as possible.

Odd morning. Got up, went into office, computer was off. I figured some windows update shut it down but didn't restart it (I had been using it 8 hours earlier pre going to bed). Press power button ...

First Benchmarks And A Primer For Intel's Core i7-5960x CPU, X99 Chipset, And DDR4 Memory. ... Meanwhile, the Core i7-4790K took 732 seconds to finish the encode, about 12 minutes. Double the time.

Benchmark results of a Core i7-6700K have been posted, they have been matched against a Core i7-4790K. The CPU performance results are pretty close to each other, the IGP seems faster though.

Intel Core i7 4790k oc 4.7GHz vs i7 10700k 4.7GHz (RTX 3080 ... 4.7GHz msi Z97S sli Plus 16Gb ram DDR3 2133Mhz Intel i7 10700K 4.7GHz msi mpg Z490 gaming plus 16Gb ram DDR4 3600Mhz cpu Cooler ...

That translates into a hefty chunk of change that goes to Intel, compared to the $340 for the Core i7-4790K CPU in the EON15-X. That doesn’t make the EON15-X necessarily a cheap laptop, though.

For example, Intel Core i7-4790 (Amazon) or Intel Core i7-8500U (Amazon). You’ll also be given a rough indicator of your CPU’s clock speed, measured in Ghz.