 We have actually got two new CPUs from Intel today, both of which I would classify as Enthusiasts Delight. At the forefront is the Core i7 4790K codenamed Tevin's Canyon. Their new 4 GHz base, 4.4 GHz boost, quad-core hyper-threaded, unlocked and overclockable mainstream flagship. And then quietly in the background is the Pentium G3258 with a modest 3.2 GHz clock speed and two processing cores with no hyper-threading and no turbo boost. So with that all in mind, the star of the show today might surprise you a bit. For the ultimate no compromises compact gaming PC, look no further than the Obsidian Series 250D from Corsair. Click now to learn more. Let's start with an explanation of Intel's Devil's Canyon codename and what that actually means. The silicon is actually not physically different than previous Haswell CPUs. So put aside your expectations of tangible performance gains at the same clock speeds. This is an evolutionary step, not a revolutionary one. So what does that even mean? Well, on the surface not too much. The Core i7 4790K features a 100 MHz clock speed improvement over the 4770K with the same features enabled at the same price. So it's sure better than a kick in the pants. But if that's all that we were getting the whole Devil's Canyon branding might have seemed a little bit out of place. The two main real improvements are actually more behind the scenes and some of the most enthusiast friendly things Intel's done in quite some time. It looks like they're really listening to us. First up, they have fixed the thermal interface material between the core and the metal heat spreader on the top of the CPU that was causing Haswell chips to run extremely hot, especially when overvolting and overclocking for more performance. Number two is that due to small incremental improvements in the manufacturing process, yields on these dives have allowed Intel to provide much more consistently, highly overclockable 4790Ks compared to the previous generation Haswell chips. So more consistency in the overclocking. Again, a big thumbs up. Put together these two things aren't going to be enough to make every current Haswell owner toss their chip and rush to the store for an upgrade, but they will mean a more consistent overclocking experience and a cooler running CPU for anyone who does take the plunge. I'll be handing off to Luke to give you guys some idea of what we could squeeze out of our sample and how it compares to running at stock speed. But first, I'd like to introduce the real star of the show today, IMHO. The Pentium G3258 might not have sounded exceptional when I introduced it, but I left off one very important thing. It's unlocked. That means that for the first time in years, Intel is giving gamers and enthusiasts the gift of an overclockable chip that's priced so low that you can get it and an overclocking ready Z87 or Z97 motherboard for less than the price of their previously entry-level unlocked CPU at the core i5 tier. So just as a recap, it's got only two cores, less cache, no hyperthreading, and no support for turboing up to faster speeds under ideal conditions on its own. But who cares? We've got this bad boy to 4.7 gigahertz on our test bench. So stay tuned for some gaming benchmark suckas. Oh, and spoiler alert, it's going to be surprisingly close to the quad core, all the bells and whistles models in gaming. Over to you, Luke. I'm going to start with a quick disclaimer. For both of these processors, Linus gave me exactly zero minutes to fine tune the voltage. I was able to get the fastest clock speed I could get on these chips, but I was not able to lower the voltage to an acceptable level. So the voltage is going to be a little bit high and you could definitely get away with a little bit lower voltage on both of these chips for both of these speeds. But this is as fast as I was able to get either of them. The 4790K was pretty nice to overclock and deals with temperatures quite well. Even at 1.3 volts running at full load under I264, it only got to about 70-75 degrees. The Pentium K though was super freaking surprising. I was told this was supposed to be a great processor, but getting on the bench and messing it with it yourself is kind of fantastic. Under full load I264, 1.35 volts, this thing only gets about 60-65 degrees. That's crazy. You can get that lower obviously by getting a better voltage threshold, but you almost don't even need to. The potential of this processor is fantastic. So let's check out that performance. In terms of gaming performance, the 4790K did about as expected. It's a little bit faster and everything, but not a ton faster. Don't worry about the star citizen result. I think that's probably more based on star citizen not being very well optimized yet as it's pre-alpha, and less to do with the processor. The Pentium K though, holy crap, if you're getting this processor, please overclock it. You get so much benefit from overclocking this thing. It's awesome. It's very noticeable in certain games. And one thing to note is one of the biggest improvements that is increasing this average result, which we're reporting, is an increase in minimum frame rates, which is going to be the most noticeable. So this is great to overclock this processor, especially with you're only overclocking two cores, and they're the two most important cores. So please overclock this processor. Before we jump into Cinebench performance, I want to give a shout out to the Cinebench thread in the CPU section of the LinusTech Tips forum, started by Jumper118. That thread's kind of awesome, and we will be showing performance, probably directly based to the results in that thread, so you guys can compare the results in that thread to these processors directly. The Pentium K didn't do that great, but that's kind of expected. This thing isn't designed for heavily threaded workloads, and Cinebench is, so I wouldn't worry about that too much. The 4790K did very well, on the other hand. To reiterate on our voltage, we're currently running an H100, and you don't need to spend $100 on your CPU cooler. Tom's Hardware has a report of 4.6 GHz on air, with much less voltage than we're currently running, and I might have been able to get my voltage down, but who knows? I just wouldn't worry about spending more than your processor on a cooler. You can get very good results with this CPU, with not a ton of heat. If you want more guidance on how to overclock these CPUs, and hopefully how to tune that voltage in a little bit more Linus, we'll have a full overclocking guide coming in the near future from Linus, and speaking of Linus, back to you. Hey, I'm back! So one more tip, guys, is that as appealing as those numbers looked, and as appealing as the price for this chip will look, if you check the link to the product in the video description, remember when you're shopping to factor in platform cost, overclocking friendly competing boards from the green team are cheaper than Z-series boards, so watch out for that, but then again, there are rumors about some H-series boards being hack-sored to overclock the G3258, which would bring pricing much closer, so keep your ear to the ground in the coming months, and make sure you're paying attention when it's actually time to pull the trigger. 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