Intel Core i7-4770K Review

[| raVen |]

So as I can read, it's not worth to buy this new socket if you came from last Ivy's?
Not even from a 3570k?

Depends what's your need are mate. For my needs its not worth upgrading at all. Different people expecting different thing from their CPU's, so I leave this one as a personal opinion.

 

[bofeming]

My need's are high performance for gaming and low power consumption as possible.
Right now I have a 3570K with a gtx580 cuII + other normal stuff.
But was wondering about to buy new socket + new graphics card (770 maybe)

 

[Rastalovich]

My need's are high performance for gaming and low power consumption as possible.

Then you just need a cpu that does gaming with the lowest power consumption. Not necessarily (probably not at all) the 4770 or even 3770, probably wrong sockets to think of altogether.

Your high performance will come from graphics.

 

[markashworth79]

Seems reading the posts in this thread that I should save my money for a GPU upgrade. I'm currently running a 2600K at 4.7G 1.38V on a H100i 50 - 60C.

Most of the time I use my rig for gaming but I'm an enthusiast and I always have the urge to upgrade when a new bit of kit comes out.

What do you guys think CPU upgrade or wait for a 790 :dribble:

 

[| raVen |]

Seems reading the posts in this thread that I should save my money for a GPU upgrade. I'm currently running a 2600K at 4.7G 1.38V on a H100i 50 - 60C.

Most of the time I use my rig for gaming but I'm an enthusiast and I always have the urge to upgrade when a new bit of kit comes out.

What do you guys think CPU upgrade or wait for a 790 :dribble:

I will say to stick with 2600k, especially since your h100i will not handle the heat if you want to overclock, unless you are ok when your CPU is 90 degrees on full load.
790?... Better to go for 770 SLI if you really want Nvidia.

 

[Dicehunter]

I will say to stick with 2600k, especially since your h100i will not handle the heat if you want to overclock, unless you are ok when your CPU is 90 degrees on full load.
790?... Better to go for 770 SLI if you really want Nvidia.

Well Tom did use OCCT with avx linpack enabled which I have just tested my 3770k and got nearly the same temps and bearing in mind we get a 10% performance boost a few degrees isn't bad, Plus you will never reach these temps in games unless they are designed to stress your CPU as much as linpack does.

your cash is better spent on GPU horsepower.

Just got a EVGA SC GTX 780 so I'm good there, Even if it is only a 10% gain, It's still a gain plus my 3770K I'll donate to my dad and his pc is a pentium so this will be a nice free upgrade for him

 

[FredEx]

If one is considering one, you may want to hold off. A site has done testing and the Haswell is having issues with USB 3.0. The site did extensive testing and they tested 22 USB 3.0 drives with it and 14 of them were experiencing issues and were unable to stay connected when a Haswell system woke back up from standby.

 

[dalewakelin]

Haswell would be a huge upgrade from smithfield lol

 

[vorticalbox]

Well Tom did use OCCT with avx linpack enabled which I have just tested my 3770k and got nearly the same temps and bearing in mind we get a 10% performance boost a few degrees isn't bad, Plus you will never reach these temps in games unless they are designed to stress your CPU as much as linpack does.

what clock and volts are you using? if you don't mind me asking.


but 10% increase along with a new motherboard is pretty bad don't you think?

 

[Chopper3]

If one is considering one, you may want to hold off. A site has done testing and the Haswell is having issues with USB 3.0. The site did extensive testing and they tested 22 USB 3.0 drives with it and 14 of them were experiencing issues and were unable to stay connected when a Haswell system woke back up from standby.

Was that with ES at C1 stepping? All retail Haswell's are C2 stepped and have this problem fixed. Do you have a link to this site?

 

[Zoot]

On another note the new "high-end" Iris Graphics are actually impressive. Anandtech's benches has the mobile chip beating the graphics performance of the desktop AMD A10-5800.

However (and it's a damn big however), the die size is enormous, so enormous it's actually bigger than a 7870, which is an infinitely more powerful graphics solution. The price of the Iris equipped chip is also quoted to be $650, and at a 60W TDP it's also pretty power hungry. So it's only going to make its way into ultra expensive laptops and the like, where a discrete GPU is on the cards anyway.

In other words - nVidia and AMD needn't worry at all when it comes to Haswell's graphics, even if it is a massive leap forward for Intel.

I have the upgrade bug AND IT'S ITCHY AS HELL !!!

It seems you're not having much success controlling it. An upgrade to a GTX 780 and now a Haswell setup.

 

[Buckster]

be interested to know whether for any of the stable overclocks - the windows logs were checked for WHEA errors ?

my 3770k needed quite a few extra notches in voltage to get WHEA error free - even though with the errors it was outwardly stable, would pass Prime95, Handbrake etc with no issues

the nearer I was to the real stable voltage the less frequent WHEA errors I would get

you could say a few extra steps in voltage don't make much difference, but with my Ivy I found there was a very fine line at which point it started to go from hot to very hot ....

 

[FredEx]

Was that with ES at C1 stepping? All retail Haswell's are C2 stepped and have this problem fixed. Do you have a link to this site?

I'll find it and edit this.

If I'm allowed, here is the site. It does say C1, but a tad more is said.

http://us.hardware.info/news/35295/haswell-has-usb-30-issues-with-14-out-of-22-tested-usb-drives

 

[grassman]

On another note the new "high-end" Iris Graphics are actually impressive. Anandtech's benches has the mobile chip beating the graphics performance of the desktop AMD A10-5800.

However (and it's a damn big however), the die size is enormous, so enormous it's actually bigger than a 7870, which is an infinitely more powerful graphics solution. The price of the Iris equipped chip is also quoted to be $650, and at a 60W TDP it's also pretty power hungry. So it's only going to make its way into ultra expensive laptops and the like, where a discrete GPU is on the cards anyway.

In other words - nVidia and AMD needn't worry at all when it comes to Haswell's graphics, even if it is a massive leap forward for Intel.


It seems you're not having much success controlling it. An upgrade to a GTX 780 and now a Haswell setup.

The 4600m is there, But I don't see the 5800k anywhere, Also Richland is out this week.

 

[Dicehunter]

what clock and volts are you using? if you don't mind me asking.
but 10% increase along with a new motherboard is pretty bad don't you think?

4.60GHZ with 1.24v 24/7 stable and you have to remember we got the same 10'ish percent performance gain going from sandy to ivy so it's not that much of a deal really.

It seems you're not having much success controlling it. An upgrade to a GTX 780 and now a Haswell setup.

Telling you bud, This bug has a powerful hold ^_^

 

[Zoot]

Some reviewers have it pulling more power than the 3770k it seems.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core-i7-4770k_11.html#sect0

The 4600m is there, But I don't see the 5800k anywhere, Also Richland is out this week.

On this page, and a few others too.

But yeah, I'll be interested to see what Richland ends up looking like.

 

[bofeming]

Nice review TTL.

Anyway, for everyone here complaining about temps follow this easy steps:
1- Remove IHS from core
2- Aply Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra (4 example)
3- Enjoy new degrees
4- (optional) Go L.R and see how temps are way better now.

 

[Vlada011]

I didn't had Nostradamus near me to tell me in November 2011 to buy best possibile options for next 4 years and we still have winner after almost two year, Intel 3930K six core for 450$ OC performance similar to 3960X without sign on horizon to need something more in next 3-4 years. PCIe 3.0 is sword under head when I think on
SB-E but never mind.
I listen story about fast memory on Haswell, and I look price almost hit me stroke...
I can build SR-2 with AX1200i, two Titans for GSkill 3000MHz price.

 

[Arksun]

Nice looking CPU

 

[jameswaters1989]

huge leap...Core i7

I personally believe that the days when every new Intel processor offered a huge leap in performance and PCs were outdated after two years are gone. Four or five year old CPUs can still handle things when coupled with a decent GPU..

i've just bought myself Intel Core i7-3930K(upgraded from Corei7 2700k) and I'm quite happy with the new blistering speed! Especially in games!