At present, even if you're out of luck and get one of those "unlucky" chips that doesn't overclock well, reviewers seem to indicate something like 4.4GHz as a minimum. Your 4.2GHz *should* be achievable on any air cooler you want. Faugusztin is right, at your level, I'd be going for acoustics over performance.
Using the MSI Z87 G65 Gaming mobo atm, and i have to say i love it, does everything i need to, get a good overclock and some nice little features too for a very very good price!
bit the bullet bought stuff Asus Z87 Gryphon 8GB (2x4GB) Corsair Vengeance (red) DDR 2133 (silly not too since it same price as 1600mhz) I5 4670K Silverstone SST-AR01
Congrats on the purchases Adam. You'll have to let us know what the Gryphon is like. I was going to buy one myself but ended up going for the Gigabyte G1 M5. Unbelievable pain in the aaaass to get it all into my Corsair 350D but I got there in the end
yeah i know it will looks odd but for some reason 2133mhz modules in red were £57 but if you wanted them in black they were around £81 !!! i think they needed to get rid of stock. i dont have a window on my case anyway so im not fussed ill take performance over looks any day. Its going to go really well with the ice blue cooler i just got lol red blue and black and gold oooooohhhh yeaaahhhhh
I told myself I don't need a high spec rig and I just sold most of my stuff (see sig) but now I have the itch again damn it you people
Yeah - it was released the same time as the i7 http://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/intel_haswell_core_i5_4670k_core_i7_4770k_review,1.html http://www.anandtech.com/show/7003/the-haswell-review-intel-core-i74770k-i54560k-tested
The Anandtech Article doesn't show any i5_4670k graphs...the Vortez one does however. Strange that neither Bit nor Tom's have tested a i5_4670k though.
I would guess the lack of Bit articles was due to people being off at Computex - give it a week or so and I'd imagine that loads will start popping up
well i just pulled the trigger on a haswell build (i know i just soild an ivybridge rig, don't judge me lol). I picked up: 1. i5 4670K 2. Asus Maximus VI hero 3. 8gb Red corsair vengeance 2133mhz RAM
yeh i cant believe its soooo cheap, they must have excess stock and i think due to it come to its end of life (new vengeance)
I can confirm the new Z87 Gryphon board is a nice piece of work. The boot-into-BIOS button is a useful feature and the LEDs indicating the POST process are definitely better for troubleshooting than not having them. I don't have a speaker in my chassis so I had to rely on the LEDs for much of my setup glitches. If you're using a matched set of memory you'll be dandy, but if you're pairing let's say a 1.65V set and a 1.5V set, the board will go through a whole bunch of tests and reboots before it works out what's going on. Since we have the same board/CPU combo, I managed to get 4.3GHz stable at 1.19V (actual monitored value was more like 1.2 most of the time) under an old Freezer 7 pro. AIDA64 temps mid 80s after 10 minutes, then levelled off.
i think i need to re-apply my thermal paste im getting idle 30-35 with speed step on (800mhz-1.5ghz), with load on prime95 (3.8Ghz) its 67-70 after 2 mins did a mini overclock to 4Ghz and temps stayed the same
hmm, if you are going to buy a brand new setup, why would you choose an i5 over an i7? from what I can see there is about an £80 difference in price. Is the performance difference between the i5 and i7 not even worth considering?
i5 4670K = £190 i7 4770K = £275 £85 or nearly 45% more expensive i7 really only gets you HT and braggin rights so if your just in to gaming and dont use heavily threaded apps theres no point in buying a 4770K
I'm getting 27-29°c with speedstep on with a H100i at idle but that's with SP120 quiet fans dialled right back on a 4770k for reference (& MX-4 paste) Edit: I might finally have some time this weekend for some OCing...
