He said he was able to get 5 Ghz without a fan. Is it possible he was using a giant block of copper (tons of thermal mass) to get that result? It's not terribly practical for home-use., but if he's working on T&E (testing and evaluation) that might be something that's done. He also didn't say what voltage he was using and to him 1.5V might be normal.
Can you cut to the chase and delid one of the engineering samples and see what it will do with no thermal limit? That's what really matters to me since that's how I run my chips (waterblock directly on the silicon), and the 4770K sucks ass where even with 1.6V it won't do 5 Ghz. I'll still be buying a 4790K just to find out if the limit is any better than a 4770K (I'll know this Saturday if that's the case).
Can you cut to the chase and delid one of the engineering samples and see what it will do with no thermal limit? That's what really matters to me since that's how I run my chips (waterblock directly on the silicon), and the 4770K sucks ass where even with 1.6V it won't do 5 Ghz. I'll still be buying a 4790K just to find out if the limit is any better than a 4770K (I'll know this Saturday if that's the case).