Core i7-4790K surfaces as the Haswell-based flagship we should have had a little more than a year ago. Where our reception of the 4770K was tepid at best, Intel’s 4790K at least satisfies our desire for demonstrable performance improvement. The processor doesn't overclock worlds better than the 4770K, but additional headroom is never guaranteed. It's the extra 500 MHz promised from the same die you're going to want. With that said, if you ignored my original indifference and bought Haswell when it was introduced, 4790K isn't going to compel another upgrade. But if you’re coming from something in the Sandy Bridge generation, or even certain Ivy Bridge-based CPUs, it's going to be a lot more interesting than 4770K Core i7-4790K and -4770K using our latest benchmark versions. it's worth noting that Core i7-4790K, even overclocked