we have actually got two new CPUs from Intel today both of which I would
classify as enthusiasts delight at the Forefront is the cor i74790k code named
T's Canyon their new 4 GHz base 4.4 GHz
boost quad core hyperthreaded unlocked and overclockable mainstream Flagship
and then quietly in the background is the Pentium g3258 with a modest 3.2 GHz
clock speed and two processing cores with no hyperthreading and no turbo
boost so with that all in mind the star of the show today might surprise you a
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the obsidian series 250d from Corsair click now to learn more let's start with
an explanation of Intel's Devil's Canyon code name and what that actually means
the Silicon is actually not physically different than previous Haswell CPUs so
put aside your expectations of tangible performance gains at the same clock
speeds um this is an evolutionary step not a revolutionary one so what does
that even mean well on the surface not too much the core i74790k features a 100
MHz clock speed improvement over the 4770k with the same features enabled at
the same price so it's sure better than a kick in the pants but if that's all
that we were getting the whole Devil's Canyon branding might have seemed a
little bit out of place the two main real improvements are actually more
behind the scenes and some of the most Enthusiast friendly things Intel's done
in quite some time it looks like they're really listening to us first up they
have fixed the thermal interface material between the core and the metal
heat spreader on the top of the CPU that was causing Haswell chips to run
extremely hot especially when overvolting and overclocking for more
performance number two is that due to small incremental improvements in the
manufacturing process yields on these dieses have allowed Intel to provide
much more consistently highly overclockable 4790 K compared to the
previous generation Haswell chips so
more consistency in the overclocking again a big thumbs up put together these
two things aren't going to be enough to make every current Haswell owner toss
their chip and rush to the store for an upgrade but they will mean a more
consistent overclocking experience and a cooler running CPU for anyone who does
take the plunge I'll be handing off to Luke to give you guys some of what we
could squeeze out of our sample and how it compares to running at stock speed
but first I'd like to introduce the real star of the show today I MHO the Pentium
g3258 might not have sounded exceptional when I introduced it but I left off one
very important thing it's unlocked that means that for the first
time in years Intel is giving Gamers and enthusiasts the gift of an overclockable
chip that's priced so low that you can get it and an overclocking ready Z87 or
z9 7 motherboard for less than the price
of their previously entry-level unlocked CPU at the core i5 tier so just as a
recap it's got only two cores less cash
no hyperthreading and no support for turboing up to faster speeds under ideal
conditions on its own but who cares we got this bad boy to 4.7 GHz on our test
bench so stay tuned for some gaming Benchmark suckas oh and spoiler alert
it's going to be surprisingly close to the quad core all the bells and whistles
models in gaming over to you Luke I'm going to start with a quick disclaimer
for both of these processors lonus gave me exactly zero minutes to fine-tune the
voltage I was able to get the fastest clock speed I could get on these chips
but I was not able to lower the voltage to an acceptable level so the voltage is
going to be a little bit high and you could definitely get away with a little bit lower voltage on both of these chips
for both of these speeds but this is as fast as I was able to get either of them
the 4790k was pretty nice to overclock and deals with temperatures quite well
well even at 1.3 volts running at full load under ID to 64 it only got to about
70 75° the penum K though was super
freaking surprising I was told this was supposed to be a great processor but
getting it on the bench and messing it with with it yourself is kind of
fantastic Under full load id64 1.35
volts this thing only gets about 60 65°
that's crazy you can get that lower obviously by getting a better voltage
threshold but it you almost don't even need to the potential of this processor
is fantastic so let's check out that performance in terms of gaming
performance the 4790k did about as expected it's a little bit faster and
everything but not a ton faster don't worry about the star Sion result I think
that's probably more based on Star Sion not being very well optimized yet as
it's pre-alpha um and less to do with the
processor the Pentium K though holy crap if you're getting this processor please
overclock it you get so much benefit from overclocking this thing it's
awesome it's very noticeable in certain games and one thing to note is one of
the biggest improvements that in that is increasing this average result which
we're reporting is an increase in minimum frame rates which is going to be
the most noticeable so this is great to overclock this processor especially with
you're only overclocking two cores and they're the two most important cores so
please overclock this processor before we jump into cine bench performance I
want to give a shout out to the cinebench thread in the CPU section of the lineus tech tips Forum started by
jumper 118 that thread's kind of awesome and we will be showing performance
probably directly based to the results in that thread so you guys can compare
the results in that thread to these processors directly the Pentium K didn't
do that great but that's kind of expected this thing isn't designed for
heavily threaded workloads and cinebench is so I wouldn't worry about that too
much the 4790k did very well on the other hand to reiterate on our voltage
we're currently running an h100 and you don't need to spend $100 on your CPU
Cooler Tom's Hardware has a report of 4.6 GHz on on air with much less voltage
than we're currently running and I might have been able to get my voltage down
but who knows I just wouldn't worry about spending more than your processor
on a cooler you can get very good results with this CPU with not a ton of
heat if you want more guidance on how to overclock these CPUs and hopefully how
to tune that voltage in a little bit more Linus we'll have a full
overclocking guide coming in the near future from Linus and speaking of lonus
back to you hey I'm back so one more tip guys is that as appealing as those
numbers looked and as appealing as the price for this chip will look if you
check the link to the product in the video description remember when you're shopping to factor in platform cost
overclocking friendly competing boards from the Green Team are cheaper than
zseries boards so watch out for that but
then again there are rumors about some H series boards being hacks sored to
overclock the g3258 which would bring pricing much closer so keep your ear to
the ground in the coming months and make sure you're paying attention when it's
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do you think who who who was the star of the show Devil's Canyon or the Pentium
g3258 I think you guys all know which one Luke and I most excited about but
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