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Core i7-4790K ‘Devil’s Canyon’ overclocked to 6GHz with all cores active

A Spanish enthusiast has managed to overclock his Intel Core i7-4790K “Devil’s Canyon” microprocessor from 4.0GHz to 6.0GHz with all cores and the Hyper-Threading technology active, which seems to be a new world’s record.

The vast majority of contemporary microprocessor overclocking records are broken using chips with deactivated cores since they are easier to overclock. While such results are interesting, they are not really practical since it makes no sense to use multi-core chips with most of their cores disabled. Fortunately, some overclockers tend to achieve results useful in the real world.

Rety, an overclocker from Spain, has managed to overclock his Core i7-4790K to 6.0GHz with all cores, the Hyper-Threading technology and dual-channel memory access active. In a bid to do that, he used Asus Maximum VII Formula mainboard powered by Intel Z97 core-logic, Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR3 memory modules (2*4GB at 2666MHz with CL-10 12-12-21) as well as liquid-nitrogen cooling. To ensure stable operation, the Vcore of the processor was increased to 1.525V, up from 1.25V/1.23V.

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The overclocked system was stable enough not only to launch Windows and make a screenshot in CPU-Z application, but to complete the Cinebench R15 benchmark with 1223 score, which is a record for quad-core processors based on the “Haswell” micro-architecture.

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The new overclocking record is a good news for those, who plan to get Intel’s Core i7-4790K and overclock it to the max. The question is how many of the “Devil’s Canyon” chips can really work at such high frequencies.

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KitGuru Says: If the newer “Haswell” chips have better overclocking potential than predecessors and 5GHz+ could be achieved with some luck and proper air or liquid cooling, then owners of overclocked Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge-based systems have something to think about.

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24 comments

  1. Yet he can’t afford a genuine copy of windows…

  2. Yet he can’t afford a genuine copy of windows…

  3. he never registered it

  4. Looks like he was using a stripped down version of Win 7 Ultimate too. Hmmm. . .

  5. Who cares?

  6. You cared enough to comment.

  7. Would you key in a the activation key every time you put in a new hardware in your system? The warning would appear each time you swap out CPU or motherboard, if I’m not mistaken. It’s inconvenient to anyone who do benchmarks a lot.

  8. I’ve swapped boards and windows stays genuine and I’ve also had it not.. Who cares he likely only benchmarks on it so it’s likely that he does own legit windows, just not two copies for the sake of having to buy two copies.

  9. nope, you did.

  10. That was witty.

  11. When you change out the motherboard or cpu in some circumstances windows deactivates and you have to sit on the phone for 30 minutes to reactivate.

    In a test bench environment where you are constantly changing components it is both stupid and time wasting to reactivate windows every time you need to say test a new motherboared etc.

    So yeah, I guess you never tested, or upgraded a pc before, nor done benchmarks.

  12. Golam Annoor Mahboob

    So many microsoft employees

  13. WTF man …. look at balls don’t try to find bones in his boner .

  14. Awesome buddy Awesome . i’m yet to reach 5.4 with H100i 89C tops .1.4350v.

  15. I tried overclocking once, but my dick fell off so…

  16. “which seems to be a new world’s record” nope, world record is over 8ghz and its on a 8 core fx chip.
    “they are not really practical” You think this IS practical? Because it isnt. It doesnt matter that its using all cores. You cant use the computer like this for a long enough time to benefit from the cores. These types of overclocks are not for increased performance, they are meant to break records, then taken apart. Its temporary. This is no different.

  17. Yeah that would be due to fact that you are using a 100 dollar closed AIO water cooler. This person is using liquid nitrogen… sooo, yeaaaaaah

  18. Зарастроика

    LOL

  19. So…you don’t have a dick?

  20. Nah I still have it, it just fell off.

  21. not a bad idea to keep it, actually…you can walk around with it in your pocket and smack people who overclock their monitors with it

  22. Imma do it!

  23. Fuck yeah those cunts are faggots!!!

  24. i have one(4790k), i think my processor can reach 7Ghz with 1 core and hyperthreading locked