Rebuilding the Mega-O

[Nebulous]

Well I couldn't wait any longer as I've waited long enough for an upgrade. Waiting for the X99 to drop is out of the question, as it will be wayy too expensive for me on my budget.

Got a buyer for my current board, chip, vid card and H80, but remaining parts ie: SSD's, psu, ram, optical drives and the watercooling setup will be reused.

What I have coming is the ASrock Extreme 6 and a 4790K I'm so looking forward to a new rig.

The video card, however, will have to wait till I get more funds. So I'll have to use either the onboard vid or a relic AMD X1800XT (512mb) card I have as a back-up to hold me over.

I'm sure I'll be able to achieve 4.5-4.8Ghz, but imma try for the magic 5.0Ghz

So do any of you think that's possible, or are my expectations out of reach?

 

[EarthDog]

Custom water and a great chip are what is required there.

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Nice Neb! Might take a delid, but you should hit 4.6-4.7 pretty easily with an average chip using your loop

 

[Nebulous]

Thanks guyz. Joe, Atmin, I appreciated all your inputs, and with your help, hopefully made the right choice.

Don't get me wrong, the X99 seemed like a viable option, but given the budget I have to work with, was just not in the cards for me.

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Should be a nice one for you, especially coming from an i5 that topped out pretty early

 

[Johan45]

From he looks of things they're alot like the 4770K and it's a good little chip. On my loop I run it most of the time at 4.5 with 1.32v, it climbs pretty quickly after that. 4.7 is at 1.4v and will bench at 5.0. Like E_D says it really depends on the CPU you come up with. They tend to be all over the map really.

 

[Nebulous]

Yeah, looking forward to it! You know judging by your sig Atmin, I'm gonna be pestering you for tweaks

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Yeah, looking forward to it! You know judging by your sig Atmin, I'm gonna be pestering you for tweaks

Bring it on! I don't run my 4770K on a 24/7 basis, but I have a pretty solid 4.8GHz @ 1.42V for benching
You'll love this UEFI though, super easy to use.

 

[Nebulous]

Bring it on! I don't run my 4770K on a 24/7 basis, but I have a pretty solid 4.8GHz @ 1.42V for benching
You'll love this UEFI though, super easy to use.

Saweet! Now my palms are starting to itch!

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Saweet! Now my palms are starting to itch!

That's just the asbestos

Wait... what?

 

[caddi daddi]

when you see the heat of these things you'll want asbestos gloves.
the 4790k is a gawd aweful good cpu when you get a good one but the number of duds kind of puts me off, it's not like amd with fx where you can count on getting it over 5.0.

 

[Nebulous]

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a good one. I'm getting mine from MC in Boston.

 

[caddi daddi]

mine wil run 4.8 stable and bench 4.9 hitting on all 8 and i have seen very few better, so cross the fingers and squint those eyes!!!

 

[ATMINSIDE]

mine wil run 4.8 stable and bench 4.9 hitting on all 8 and i have seen very few better, so cross the fingers and squint those eyes!!!

What vCore though?

 

[Nebulous]

Got sum teaser pics. My friend Blackstar managed to score these @ MC for me and managed to save me about $60 over the egg I'll be getting these in a few days, woohoo!

 

[Theocnoob]

What's the deal with the McAffee thing that comes with the CPU? I hadn't seen an i7 DC box up close. Is it the full McAffee for a year or something?

 

[ATMINSIDE]

What's the deal with the McAffee thing that comes with the CPU? I hadn't seen an i7 DC box up close. Is it the full McAffee for a year or something?

You actually want McAfee?

I'm sorry.

 

[Theocnoob]

You actually want McAfee?

I'm sorry.

That's like asking if I want syphilis. I'm just asking what the deal is. I don't want to use it myself.

 

[ATMINSIDE]

That's like asking if I want syphilis. I'm just asking what the deal is. I don't want to use it myself.

That makes more sense

 

[Nebulous]

I have no clue about that deal as I could care less about it. I'll never use it. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed hoping that chip is a good clocker!