Most systems, even budget models, should run it fine.

The i7-4790K is a Sweet CPU for those who wants to upgrade their 1150 OEM models to the best CPU possible. Come 2 or 3 years, these will be all over eBay used for less than $100. Many expects a CPU of this price to last at least 10 years. Intel makes a lot of cash, and didn't have to resort to these tactics, consumers would had paid $25 more for the right way of doing things. Had I known this upfront, would never had dropped $327 for the 4790K. Hopefully with fluxless solder, just as the earlier models. What I didn't see is what the thermal paste was replaced with. There are published fixes that aren't risk free (75% success rate), and one needs the tools to do the job. Some says that with overclocking or high Turbo Boost usage, that the (inferior) paste will last just long enough for the warranty to expire, and will likely die. For the money, the i7-4790K is a dang great CPU, though am now questioning one issue.instead of fluxless solder, Intel used thermal paste in their 3rd & 4th gen CPU's underneath the cap. For some, that's the budget for their entire build.and likely recycling some components to meet that budget. Also, I appreciate the fact that not everyone can afford to spend $350 for a single component.

Rather as someone mentioned above, if it were only Intel, then we'd be paying $750 or more for these high powered CPU's. Intel should spend more time on developing rather than bringing out new products every couple months.I'm also glad that consumers chooses AMD (though personally am not a 'fanboy' of the brand. I don't know much about the 4970k, but I think it'll be at best an upgrade like from a 3770k to a 4770k. For me it's just a way to make sure the CPU runs at it's best settings (in my case I lowered the stock voltage and still got up to 4.5Ghz) It's not like you can add the 20% you overclocked to your overall performance. Many can build their own sub $1k DAW boxes based on chips like this which are top performers and if they have added needs just have multiple boxes (if you run a business you should have redundancy).From my experience there is no big gain in overclocking. The purpose of keeping an eye on the 4790K which is due out in a couple weeks is to see if it fills the role of best 4 core modest price / high performance chip. There are still big performance gains to be had via overclocking but that is a discussion worthy of it's own thread if you want to start one up. Skylake is the 14nm die size 'tock' after Broadwell and thus you won't be seeing it until 2016 at the earliest.

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