IntelCore i7 4790 Quad Core Professional Processor (3.60 GHz, 8 MB, Haswell, 84 W, Graphics, Hyper Threading Technology, Socket 1150)

My first computer was ZX Spectrum 56k. My second, a Commodore 64. Third, Amiga 300. 4th, Amiga 500, 5th, Quad speed Win95, 6th, Win98 P4 1.7Ghz. 7th, AMD Phenom ll Q4 955 3.2Ghz. <= (excluding my laptops)What can I say. Other than on paper, I now realise I have had more computers than I have relationships ! :$Which may not say a lot for my chatup lines, but hopefully it will my coding ones!Moore's law is still upheld, in principle. And, as long as we [mankind] don't annihilate each other, the future can only be bright. This is a great processor, capable of computations I only dreamed about as a boy. (I'm 35)I am from the home PC generation. I used to study my 'BASIC' coding book for my spectrum on Saturday afternoons when I was 7. I now develop software for various companies as well as motion graphics.I'm not keen on the K versions. I don't OC. It worked straight out of the box with a new Gigabyte Z97-UD5H-BK. I swapped the stock cooler for a BeQuiet Dark Rock 3, and runs cool and extremely quiet.100% recommended for staggering stability and performance for professionals and enthusiasts alike.

I do alot of video editing and this chip has certainly speeded up my work flow. What took what took up to an hour on my old I5 is now completed in half the time. The grandkids love it as it made their games perform much better. All in all definately worth the money.

Great chip!This is a great processor all round delivering great power with reasonable power consumption.I personally recommend this i7 if you are a pc gamer or/and a firstish time editor with rendering performance being great for the price and socket.Pros&ConsPROSGreats stabilityGood temperature distributionVery reasonable priceVery powerful for the priceCONSCan not overclock and that's about it for cons that I can think of off the top of my head.To summarizeGreat performance for a non overclocked processor. I recommend it for gamers and editors that don't have the budget to upgrade to skylake and is all round a good addition to most systems.

Although it says 3.60GHz, it is actually 4GHz, if you go to intel's official website and search for this processor, it will say ''base clock speed, 4GHz''. plus i have purchased this and it says 4GHz on the box and it clearly goes ever 3.6 in the performance tab on the task manager.But a very good cpu, would recommend.(Assuming that you have the money)

Be buying from this trusted seller time and time again from now on, i just wish they sold motherboards!

The best high end CPU for your money. The retail boxed processor comes wit its own heat-sink and fan. I used thermal paste on top of the layer already on the back of processor to ensure tighter contact.Very pleased I paid the small price difference to buy it instead of iCore 5.

This is a very good cpu and provides everything the press reports that I read said it would. I have a separate graphics card, so have not used the cpu graphics. I expect this cpu will keep me going for several years before I have to upgrade.

Be very,very careful about your choice of Mother board. This is a Haswell-Refurbished model and not quite 4thGen. More like 4.25..!I can confirm that it works fine in a Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3 with Bois F7, but NOT with an Asus P87-Plus, even with the 2003 or 2004 Bios that Asus recommend.This chip replaced an i7-4770 that I was already very happy with in a VM-Ware server - the two extra GHz speed *are* noticeable and well appreciated.Check my Asus Z87 Review for more info about what went wrong with the "i7-4790 and a Z87-Plus" and how I came to a compromise.

Cambie mi procesador por este y le quedo muy bien a mi pc ,. Es más rápido este ,.

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Ich hatte noch etwas Hardware bei mir zuhause übrig - ein Motherbord GA97X, 16 GB RAM , Netztei usw - fehlte mir nur noch ein für den Sockel 1150 passender Prozessor.Der Core i7-4790 ist zwar schon etwas älter - aber er ist sehr leistungsstark, für Office sowieso und auch für Games gut zu gebrauchen.Heute per Post erhalten , gleich auf den Sockel gesetzt UND mein PC fährt auch schob hoch....suuper

Bought one of these used for about $180 to upgrade from the Intel Core i5-4430 that came with my HP Envy 700-074. Not the best value on the market compared to the Ryzen 5 2400G or 3400G, but offers similar performance to those CPU's. At the time of this review, those are much better values for building new PC's and include an upgrade path to CPU's with more cores, something that isn't doable with older Intel consumer platforms.The additional clock speed and hyperthreading definitely allow for snappier and smoother performance. Gaming performance is improved massively compared to the i5-4430 when it comes to the latest AAA games, with a 15-30 percent improvement in performance in older games that have little use for more than four threads.Installing it was easy. All it involved was swapping out the i5-4430 and inserting this CPU in its place along with a fresh application of thermal paste and reusing the original OEM HP cooler. It runs slightly hotter than the i5, but temps stayed below 70c even under intensive testing. Overall, I am very pleased with this processor.The i7-4790k was still over $200 at the time I did the upgrade, and that would have been the CPU I would have gone for had it been closer to the non-K version in price due to its additional performance.September 2020 Update: The PC this went in has been retired as of June 2020, but I enjoyed the short time I had it with this processor. My only regret is that I purchased the processor near the tail end of the HP Envy 700-074's useful life. I have since replaced it with a Ryzen 5 3600-based iBUYPOWER prebuilt, and I'm enjoying it as much as I enjoyed the Envy 700-074 in its early days of use in the fall of 2013.

Este procesador es de segunda mano y my opinion debe ser tomada como lo que es: una limitada experiencia pues hace poco que lo instale, por tanto solo puedo decir que desde su montaje hace algo mas de un mes no he experimentado problema alguno funcionando a la perfeccion aparte del montaje para lo que me valí de videoclips de youtube, su instalacion no ofrece complicacion alguna no siendo necesario ajuste alguno ya que el sistema se encarga de todo automaticamente. Con esto y la adicion de una tarjeta grafica mas potente y un ssd de 1 TB junto al de 250 GB que traia de origen ha convertido mi pequeño PC de oficina HP 800 G1 SFF que ya iba de cine de por si en una potente herramienta de trabajo y otras funciones incluidas juegos y todo por un precio mas que razonable comparado a si hubiera apostado por uno PC nuevo. Solo espero que me dure pero eso el tiempo lo dira.