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we have actually got two new CPUs from Intel today both of which I would classify as enthusiasts delight at the forefront is the core i7 4790k coding Devil's Canyon their new 4 gigahertz base 4.4 gigahertz boost quad-core hyper-threaded unlocked an overclockable mainstream flagship and then quietly in the background is the pentium g 32:58 the modest 3.2 gigahertz clock speed and two processing cores with no hyper threading and no turbo boost so with that all in mind the star of the show today might surprise you a bit for the ultimate no compromises compact gaming PC look no further than the obsidian series 250 d from Corsair click now to learn more let's start with an explanation of intel's Devil's Canyon codename 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 this is an evolutionary step not a revolutionary one so what does that even mean well on the surface not too much the core i7 4790k features a 100 megahertz 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 over volting and overclocking for more performance number two is that due to small incremental improvements in the manufacturing process yields on these dyes have allowed Intel to provide much more consistently highly overclockable 4790k s compared to the previous generation has well 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 idea of what we could squeeze out of our sample and how it compares to running its dock speed but first I'd like to introduce the real star of the show today IMHO the pentium g 32:58 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 but you can get it and an overclocking ready z87 or z97 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 hyper threading and no support for turbo Aang up to faster speeds under ideal conditions on its own but who cares we've got this bad boy 2 4.7 gigahertz 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 leap you start with a quick disclaimer for both of these processors Linus 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 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 even at one point three volts running at full load under i-264 it only got to about 7075 degrees the Pentium K though was super freaking surprising I was told this was supposed to be a great processor but getting on the bench and messing it with with it yourself is kind of fantastic under full load I 264 1.35 volts this thing that hits about 60 65 degrees that's crazy you can get that lower obviously by getting a better voltage thresholds 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 data boat as expected it's a little bit faster and everything but not a ton faster don't worry about the stars is and result I think that's probably more based on star sees and not being very well optimized yet as its pre-alpha and less to do with the processor the pentium cave oh 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 inc 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 your only overclocking 2 cores and they're the two most important course so please overclock this processing before we jump into Cinebench performance i want to give a shout out to the Cinebench thread in the cpu section of the line of tech tips forum started by jumper one one eight that threads kind of awesome and we will be showing performance probably directly based to the results in that threads you guys compare the results on 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 in h 100 and you don't need to spend a hundred dollars on your CPU cooler tom's hardware has a report of 4.6 gigahertz 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 the 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 will have a full overclocking guide coming in the near future from Linus and speaking of Linus back to you hey I'm back so one more tip guys is that as appealing as those numbers looked and as appealing has 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 and League competing boards from the Green Team are cheaper than zseries boards so watch out for that but then again there are 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