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What unlocked LGA 1150/1151 CPU did you buy?

What unlocked LGA 1150/1151 CPU did you buy?

  • i7-6700K

    Votes: 7 35.0%

  • i5-6600K

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • i7-4790K

    Votes: 6 30.0%

  • i5-4690K

    Votes: 1 5.0%

  • i7-4770K

    Votes: 3 15.0%

  • i5-4670K

    Votes: 1 5.0%

  • i7-5775C

    Votes: 1 5.0%

  • i5-5675C

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • G3258

    Votes: 1 5.0%
  • Total voters
    20
I bought a 4790K and a 6600K, and sold them both. I picked 4790K in the poll, since it was the higher performing of the two, hitting 4.9 on cool nights.
 
I bought a 4790K and have it overclocked to 4.7GHz with DDR3-2400 CL11 RAM. It's about as fast as anything out there, but if I were smarter, I'd have stuck with my 4.2GHz i5-3570K a bit longer and picked up a 6700K sometime recent instead. From the tests I've seen, Skylake is a significant upgrade relative to Haswell in enough cases for me, but buying a 6700K right now seems like a pointless idea. Maybe I'll go for Kaby Lake.
 
IllogicalGlory said:
I bought a 4790K and have it overclocked to 4.7GHz with DDR3-2400 CL11 RAM. It's about as fast as anything out there, but if I were smarter, I'd have stuck with my 4.2GHz i5-3570K a bit longer and picked up a 6700K sometime recent instead. From the tests I've seen, Skylake is a significant upgrade relative to Haswell in enough cases for me, but buying a 6700K right now seems like a pointless idea. Maybe I'll go for Kaby Lake.
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Yeah they're pretty decent while they last.The IPC is great!
Until you hit that power button and nothing 😉
I have a "modern" motherboard,actually both of them;No desire to put expensive chips that won't last into them.
That's gun money there. :sunglasses:
 
crashtech said:
This has NOT been my experience, and I've built more Haswell machines than I can count.
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Lucky you.That's not what my experience is or what my friends have experienced either.
I put zero faith in any post Ivy Bridge rig.
My ideal setup right now would be an e5 1660 v2,and that's it.
4790K? yeah I had one.It died
4770K cheap from your buddy? yeah that died too(after I lapped it)
4690k? Ahh,That died too.
I'm over it.The IPC increase is not worth it for the unreliability.
And that's where I'm at.
There was also a 4670K in there somewhere,bah!
 
Concerned Citizen said:
Lucky you.That's not what my experience is or what my friends have experienced either.
I put zero faith in any post Ivy Bridge rig.
My ideal setup right now would be an e5 1660 v2,and that's it.
4790K? yeah I had one.It died
4770K cheap from your buddy? yeah that died too(after I lapped it)
4690k? Ahh,That died too.
I'm over it.The IPC increase is not worth it for the unreliability.
And that's where I'm at.
There was also a 4670K in there somewhere,bah!
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Not lucky me, unlucky you. I beat on my 4790K for quite a while, even hitting 5.0 on a particularly cold night out in the lab before selling it to my nephew, and he still runs it today at a more modest 4.2GHz. Bunches of other Haswells have passed through my hands, every one of them has been burned in without mercy using the latest LinX versions. None of them have died.
 
crashtech said:
Not lucky me, unlucky you. I beat on my 4790K for quite a while, even hitting 5.0 on a particularly cold night out in the lab before selling it to my nephew, and he still runs it today at a more modest 4.2GHz. Bunches of other Haswells have passed through my hands, every one of them has been burned in without mercy using the latest LinX versions. None of them have died.
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Well I guess you're pretty special then.All my friends have been complaining
Not me.I saw this,and headed it off at the pass. 😀
 
Concerned Citizen said:
Well I guess you're pretty special then.All my friends have been complaining
Not me.I saw this,and headed it off at the pass. 😀
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I invite everyone who has had a Haswell CPU die for no good reason to post in this thread. To be fair, I suppose we ought to also invite all those whose CPUs did not die. But based on my participation in this forum, and the conspicuous lack of DOA complaints, I have to conclude that you are an outlier, just as my 4790K was an outlier in its own right. The only legitimate complaint to be made about Haswell (and indeed, Ivy on up) is that they run hot, especially when all cores are run at max turbo or they are OCed. Good coolers are always a prudent investment.
 
Concerned Citizen said:
1,2,tree,four
four.
None still are running.New stuff is not reliable.
I had all except the top 2 and they all crapped out. true story.
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Concerned Citizen said:
Some were just running for daily gaming.They failed.I learned what dies and what doesn't.
Nothing in that poll lives very long.
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Odd... Somehow my i5-4670K has survived for over three years with no problems. Sounds more like user error to me than an issue with the hardware.
 
Concerned Citizen said:
ehh 4670k is a bit more long-lived.Consider yourself fortunate.
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You switched to AMD right? With that much trouble with Intel, any normal person telling the truth would have switched.

I actually had a 4790K die early, which Intel quickly replaced, with no problems with the replacement chip, and no problems with any other Intel Haswell chip, or any AMD chip, either.
 
Concerned Citizen said:
Well I guess you're pretty special then.All my friends have been complaining
Not me.I saw this,and headed it off at the pass. 😀
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I currently have four Skylake machines, and not a single one has had hardware specific issues. I wouldn't be so quick to blame the hardware.

One of my Skylake machines was very flaky/crash prone, but after pulling my hair out for a couple of weeks, turned out to be a software/driver issue.
 
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