I closed my old thread in regards to the i5 4690k seeing I upgraded to a i7 4790k, so here we go.
 
12,000 on fire strike :) 12,001 http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/5641010

 15990 on 3D Mark11: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/9329917

Now I am using the stock bios on the lightning and also using regular bios and not the LN2 bios. Wondering if I should switch it to the bios 2 (Ln2 bios) and see what it can do. In researching the LN2 bios has better overclocking, but not sure.

I'm going to try and push the 290x lightning to around 1300 on air today. Seeing I can get almost 1250 with load temps in bench marking of only 70c max I believe this card I got is a winner. I pushed my new 4790k last night to 4.9mhz with a max temp of 70c, the modifications I did to the case with the new corsair fans and replacing the thermal paste on both the gpu and cpu with some MX-4 has helped out a great bit. I'll post later with some more updates. The only problem I have right now is using msi after burner, I have my volts already at +200 oc'D at 1225/1600 but seems like afterburner will not go any higher on volts, any suggestions. Help me oc the hell out of this machine on air :)

Which method did you use for delidding? I love. Delidding :-D

Hour gone by still max temp of 73c using Prime 95 on the most extensive Torture Test it has. But I have noticed the maxed temps with in the last 30 minutes has gone down to 65c I guess the MX-4 is breaking in :)
 
Get this I was using a can of that Air dust to dust the PC off during this test a few minutes ago, while I had the case on its side and the window off. I went to turn the can upside down to spray some air up through the radiator to clean it out and **** came out cold as hell, I watched my temps for a few seconds drop to 1c hahhahahhahahha. I wont try that again though

did you by chance take any pics of the de-lid process?
 
Can you put the lid back on down the road...if you wanted to resell it?
 
What is De-lid guard?