How long should render times be with a 4790k?

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Hello, recently I built my first rig using a 4790k and boy I must say... I expected it to be faster. A one hour long video recorded from FRAPS (which probably eats more data than any other in .avi format) takes between 2 to 2 and a half hours to render into .mp4 format to compress the size.

I do have a good benchmark on my CPU, and i'm running it in Prime 95 at the moment, I'm just wanting to make sure I'm getting maximum performance.

By the way, I render in Sony Vegas Pro 13.

Thank you.
 
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i7 4790k
TEAM Vulcan 2x8gb ddr3 RAM 1600hz
Z97 anniversary mobo
Stock fan, artic silver 5 thermal paste
xFx 750w bronze PSU
Intel 730ssd 240gb (boot)
1Tb wd blue (storage)

I can't check the temps now, as im not home but they did increase a bit and the CPU basically bunked on me and dropped to really low default speeds (below .8ghz) and the temps were bad. I reinstalled windows and that practically fixed the speed issue, then thermal paste brought it back closer to the temp I got when I first built it. I may have a bad batch as it seems another person went through a similar process, except he returned the CPU, i did not. Kind of scared wishing i would of now though. Last time i checked it was at 55 idle, which is probably more than it should.

It has been running fine despite the prior issues. Intel diagnostics is reporting it at 4,39 ghz , 16 degrees below maximum temp under load, and is passing everything.

Just be honest with me man, is it probably a bad batch? Are the rendering times too slow?
 
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What do you mean seated correctly? I've made sure they are placed properly if that's what you mean. I have a hyper212 evo but it seems way too big to be able to fit so I am going to return it... I never took the previous thermal paste off so I am going to re seat the CPU after applying fresh thermal paste.

Thank you for the reply
 
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It idles at 30 degrees. I'm scared it might be the processor. I will attempt to install the evo, although i do remember even on pc partpicker it saying that it may not be compatible with my case. I have the Rosewill Challenger 4 I believe.

I will go the extra step to attempt cooler installation before I return it. Thanks again.
 
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Yeah it's being throttled down to 3.5ghz... lol i'm going to resintall it now, that is embarresing
 
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The thermal paste definitely helped but... i don't think the stock fan even works anymore. There is a tilt i can't seem to fix Where if i push it in one way the other pops up by a tiny bit.. if i try to do both at same time, mobo bends and i get anxious
 
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A lot of i74790k are getting to throttling temps even with proper installed cooler. My friends does the same thing and mine does as well if usage goes above 80-90 %.
 
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Hey man, in a rush so don't have time to check comments to see if someone posted this.

The reason I asked is because if you're using Prime 95 prior to version 26.6 you may have those issues. There are a few threads around, this is one that explains a bit of it.
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2202320/prime-overheating-4790k.html

Hope it all works out for you man, try downloading newer Prime 95.
 
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I'm not sure what others are using in terms of cpu for vegas pro or what render times are considered good/bad but I know many use a gpu to assist in rendering. Whether or not the gpu comes into play when transcoding between one format and another I'm not sure. If you do look to the gpu route, even mid range ati gpu's outperform the best nvidia cards (specific to vegas pro).
 
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That is strange. Last time I had checked ATI was the worst possible route due to Nvidia's CUDA cores being the supported tech. I got a GTX 760 today and will be seeing if there is a GPU acceleration option available in SV. I have not used Sony Vegas since version 9 and a lot has changed!

---- and to the original problem: after reapplying thermal paste the temps still get extremely hot when running Prime95 and it causes crashing. When I run the intel diagnostics or other benchmarks, I do not exceed 92 degrees Celsius. I have not installed the new fan yet, although I will give it a shot tomorrow. My speeds are at 4.12-4.16ghz under load which is good for stock fan/heat sink from what I've read. My max voltage is 1.290. This seems high to me. Can anyone confirm?
 
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It's because vegas pro is better suited to opencl than cuda cores.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8526/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-review/20

If you scroll down some they show a benchmarks for rendering times where the 290/290x outperform the other nvidia cards. Depending on the task, I've seen other bench's where even an older ati card will outperform a gtx titan. It's not like nvidia cards are horrible and where cuda cores are preferred they excel in many things (like adobe) but strictly concerning vegas pro opencl has the edge.
 
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I just would like to update this and let ya'll know that I did install the Hyper 212 Evo and the temperatures looked mighty fine at about 60 degrees maximum after 10 minutes of stress testing so I got excited and overclocked it to 4.6ghz and the max temp is 75 degrees which is the same as my GPU. Still seems rather warm, I probably have a chip from a bad batch. Thoughts?
 
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Cool. I tried running it in prime 95 and it crashed after 1 second... I'll play around with it more when I get home but Prime95 is the only benchmark which seems to be crashing me. I know it has some problems with Hasewell but I just expected it to at least run...
 
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When running prime95, is it version 26.6 with small fft's enabled? From what others have said regarding the avx instructions and haswell/devil's canyon, that's a more suitable version to test more accurate temps. I tried aida64's stress test and intel burn test on very high for 10 passes and they only produced temps a little higher than prime 95. My 4690k seems to cap out around 4.6 stable. I managed to get 4.7 long enough to validate using cpuz (ran prime 95 long enough to max the cpu before I validated) but shortly after it crashed. That was with vcore at around 1.32 and the multiplier at 47.

There's always a possibility with more tinkering that I could get it a tad higher, but I'm not sure it would be much more than 4.7 or 4.8. That's if I pushed the vcore up, disabled xmp etc but I'm not comfortable with my vcore being that high on a regular basis so I backed off to 4.6 with a vcore of 1.28v. It maxes around 68c even under intel burn test but it's also an i5 and not hyperthreaded.
 
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Okay, cool. I do like the temperatures I'm getting; 76 degrees max. I don't think I'd feel comfortable with it higher than that. The CPU decided to downclock itself to 4ghz for some reason, thought that was really strange. It was running at 50 degrees though so I thought that was cool
 
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