Customer Reviews (4915)

• US$ 299.99

  2016-04-22

  Reviews (2042)

  t****d

  I'm running this baby on Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 and cooling it with Antec Kuhler H2O 620 with Noctua NF-F12 PWM attached to radiator layered with Arctic MX-4 thermal paste. And it is a DEViL CPU. Attached image will help you figure out thermal envelope for this particular setup, I hope.

  

• US$ 299.99

  2016-04-21

  Reviews (2042)

  Mr****rn

  Excellent value for money as always with Intel cpu's. Cost much more than amd chips but work much, much better and run cooler as well. Overclocked mine at 4.7GHz and can handle everything I have thrown at it with temperatures of about 60 degrees. Cooled by a Antec H1200 cooler.

• US$ 299.99

  2016-04-21

  Reviews (2042)

  bo****78

  I have owned this particular processor since November 2015. It has been paired with an Nvidia GTX 970 since that time, though I am upgrading it to a GTX 980ti soon.As for the processor, I paired it with a liquid cooling pump and it stays extremely cool at idle and even under load. When idle, it chills at around 28-30 celcius, and even under load in a game I rarely see it go above 63 degrees celcius using RealTemp.The processor is very quiet with the liquid cooler and the graphic card gets louder before this. But since I game with headphones on, I don't really notice.As for the performance of this processor, it is a beast. I didn't run benchmarks on it, but in actual gameplay like World of Warcraft, Rome II Total War, Total War Atilla, GTA V, Witcher III and many more I never experience anything I would attribute to a slow CPU and I am running, at the same time, a VirtualBox server in the background and hosting a Plex Media Server (though admittedly I'm not usually WATCHING anything from my plex media server while gaming, so it's not trying to encode video and play a game) and this thing never slows down.For those debating between the i5-4590k and the i7-4790k, I chose the 4790 because I planned on eventually doing video editing and read that extra power was needed from hyperthreading. I also chose it because, in my mind, 8 cores (4 actual, 4 hyperthreaded) are better than 4 without hyperthreading. In my mind, I felt I was better future-proofing my computer than if I had just gone with the 4590k. I'm sure people could say but more than 4 cores isn't needed in games and I would agree, but we don't know what the future will hold in terms of games that CAN make use of more than 4 cores, and I also like having the overhead to know that even if I'm playing a game I can be running whatever the heck I want in the background and this thing keep on plugging.I did not do much overclocking. I just did the auto overclock that comes in the BIOS of my board. It seems fast enough on its own and I didn't want to mess with much stuff.As for this processor against newer Skylake processors, I read reviews and benchmarks where this processor was very close to the newer processors with similar amounts of cores, and I don't need the newer features present on the new chipset and newer boards. So I'll probably skip Skylake and consider the generation AFTER Skylake if the performance gains are significant or I need the newer features present on that future generation chipset. So I'm expecting to keep this CPU around for AT LEAST another year, probably 2 or more.

• US$ 299.99

  2016-04-20

  Reviews (2042)

  An****ng

  Extremely worth the money. However, if you want something cheaper than this for your build, check out the Intel Core i5 4690K.

• US$ 69.99

  2016-04-20

  Reviews (539)

  R****n

  Bought it for $15 in 2013. Only had light use (maybe a year and a half of actual use, the rest it was stored) and the a couple of the keys are starting to go bad. For that price and the ability to wash it, I'd say it is a pretty good keyboard.

• US$ 299.99

  2016-04-18

  Reviews (2042)

  S****L

  Just do it. This is an incredible processor for the price... and compatible motherboards and memory are at all time lows. If you have the money go with the new generation but if you're looking to save some money (probably 100's overall) this processor still competes with the new generation.

• US$ 299.99

  2016-04-16

  Reviews (2042)

  J****f

  Good cpu plays all the games ,very fast ,It has worked great since I dropped it in ,posting some pics

  

• US$ 299.99

  2016-04-15

  Reviews (2042)

  R****t

  Item came as quick as it said it would and install was a breeze I'm glad I went with this one verses the one I was going to buy the whole build went well, and is working flawlessly. haven't done any bench testing yet but I will...

• US$ 299.99

  2016-04-14

  Reviews (2042)

  Ch****ey

  I love this thing. I upgraded from an AMD FX-8350 in the summer of 2015. The frame jump was so high that I didn't even realize that I hadn't enable the SLI for the second GTX 970 that I bought along with it. When it sits almost idle, doing small things, it floats around 4.0-4.1GHz. BUT, when you put it under stress(like playing any game or benchmarking it), it jumps up to a stable 4.3GHz. I even saw it sit at 4.4GHz on one benchmark. And the included cooler did a good job of keeping the temp stable when I ran three benchmarks in a row on the 3DMark software too. The stock cooler is actually extremely quiet, also. I love this processor and recommend that you just eat the upfront cost. For the performance it gives, it's entirely worth the money. Combine this with a GTX 970 and you can just about max out Crysis 3 and Fallout 4 at 1080p. Just about. I am very satisfied with my purchase and I don't even plan on upgrading to the 6th gen 6700K whatsoever. I'll just put in another GPU. The performance difference is extremely minimal, and with the cost of the LGA1151 and DDR4 stuff, this is the better value.

• US$ 299.99

  2016-04-13

  Reviews (2042)

  C****G

  Fastest processor in the world. Don't let people trick you into believing newer processors are faster. Most applications are single-threaded, and even multi-threaded applications aren't all that multi-threaded. (And this is great at multi-threading...)Look up single-thread benchmarks. This is still at top, even as of 4/13/2016.Major difference in horribly s***ty Bethesda engine games. (Fallout 4, Elder Scrolls Online, or any CPU-bound PoS engine like SWTOR).

• US$ 299.99

  2016-04-13

  Reviews (2042)

  Jo****nn

  Oh my gosh. I had a AMD FX-8350. The difference in games is amazing. By that i mean that the min frames. Don't let people tell you other wise. I noticed a huge difference in gta 5 and every game. Trust me there is a performance difference no matter what people say.

• US$ 299.99

  2016-04-12

  Reviews (2042)

  A****n

  This processor is a beast, use it on my personal rig and those I help friends build.

• US$ 299.99

  2016-04-12

  Reviews (2042)

  L****o

  (The CPU has been in use for nearly half of a year as of this review)I purchased the 4790K for a PC build I was doing for myself. I have build several gaming computers at this point so I have a bit of experience. The product arrived fully functional and was installed into an MSI Z97 SLI Krait Edition motherboard.This processor never misses a beat. I use the computer for primarily gaming but also for CAD and related engineering uses. For these purposes the CPU stays cool and under-utilized on the stock CPU cooler. I have some benchmarks bellow.Cinebench R15852 Multi-Core173 Single-CoreOverall, I am very happy with this CPU and will be soon overclocking it. If you are just gaming or enthusiast video editing or something along those lines, this CPU is more than enough.

• US$ 299.99

  2016-04-09

  Reviews (2042)

  T****q

  This is the best CPU going at the moment and i would reccomend it to everyone!It can be overclocked to 4.4Ghz and runs super smooth, never had such ease of use!

• US$ 299.99

  2016-04-09

  Reviews (2042)

  D****g

  Easy installation and great performance, with this CPU I finally have a beat of a machine.

• US$ 299.99

  2016-04-09

  Reviews (2042)

  J****.

  Technology advances and this chip was ahead of its time, still is. If I could, I would have 10 computers running this processor.

• US$ 299.99

  2016-04-08

  Reviews (2042)

  Ha****to

  Great processor. Updated from a AMD 8 core at the same speed and this processor runs cooler and faster.

• US$ 299.99

  2016-04-06

  Reviews (2042)

  G****S

  Upgraded from a 1st gen i7 920 to this. Based on benchmarks, the 4790k is at least twice as fast as the 920, sometimes even more (depends on the benchmark). I can't say it feels twice as fast but I could bump up the graphics for some games and they run smoother than they used to even with the graphics all set to 'high' so obviously there is an improvement. Note that this is LGA1150 and the new generation i7/i5 are using LGA1151 which means that the 1151 is sort of a dead end but I don't know if this is a factor for most people when buying a CPU.Also, I found this at a local store for around 25% less then the Amazon price.

• US$ 299.99

  2016-04-06

  Reviews (2042)

  da****er

  Excellent

• US$ 299.99

  2016-04-05

  Reviews (2042)

  Ho****ed

  For gaming It performs like a boss!! This replaced an Intel Core i5 4670K as I wasn't happy with my PC's performance. I'm using this i7 CPU with an Asus Maximus VI Impact Motherboard/ G-Skill 8GB Ripjaws X DDR3 2133 Dual Kit/ EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 970.