Devil's Canyon: Intel Core i7-4790K OC'ing and Review

Name: Devil's Canyon: Intel Core i7-4790K OC'ing and Review
Brand: Devil's

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, June 12, 2014, 12:30 AM EDT

We did some benchmarking while we had our CPU overclocked to see what kind of performance gains came with the increased frequencies. Remember, the Core i7-4790K has a base clock of 4GHz, a boost clock of 4.4GHz, and we pushed our sample to 4.8GHz while overclocking.

We saw a healthy performance improvement in Cinebench’s multi-threaded benchmark, which will take advantage of all of the CPU horsepower you throw at it. In the Crysis CPU benchmark, however, which is also affected by memory speeds and other factors, the performance gain was more modest, but still present.

Tags: Intel, CPU, processor, overclock, Devil's Canyon, 4790K

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com