Well, the Intel Core i7-3820 CPU is certainly reasonable by the standards of the company’s Sandy Bridge–Extreme line: Priced at $294 list, it’s noticeably less expensive than either the top-tier Core ...

The Intel Core i7-3820 processor is a fine performer, but it lacks the impressive features of other CPUs in the Sandy Bridge?Extreme line. The Core i7-3820’s differences are apparent just from its ...

One of the more impressive Intel platforms at this very moment is the X79 motherboard series armed with a Core i7 series Sandy Bridge-E processor. Problem is, it's an expensive platform especially ...

Performance Summary: The Core i7-3820 performed very well throughout our battery of benchmarks. Versus AMD’s flagship FX-8150, there was no contest; the Core i7-3820 was dominant. Versus Intel’s other ...

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away: Intel has quietly released the Sandy Bridge-E Core i7 3820, a quad-core, mid-range, socket LGA2011 part that's the spiritual successor to the i7 920 and ...

I'm building a PC, and have come a long way since I posted my last help request thread. Given my build (see below), which processor would you recommend? Cost isn't really a limiting factor, as I've ...

A few weeks back, we took a look at the Core i7-3960X, Intel’s first desktop processor to feature the company’s Sandy Bridge-E microarchitecture. If you're unfamiliar with the chip, Sandy Bridge-E is ...

The Intel Core i7 3820 actually posts some decent scores in our benchmark tests, but it's the Intel Core i7 2700K that makes the best impression, thanks to some stellar comparative benchmarks. In ...

Sandy Bridge-E, it's the all new 'enhanced' slash 'enthusiast' version of what pretty much is the Sandy Bridge (Core i7 2600K) architecture, yet with some new features added and some others stripped ...

Intel muscled into its own high-end desktop CPU territory when it launched the Sandy Bridge E (SNB-E) chips in November 2011. Expanding on the specifications of the excellent mainstream ...

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. This is a bit more within the reach ...

Unlike Intel's 'K' and 'X' series parts, the Core i7-3820 is not fully unlocked, featuring instead what the company calls "Limited Unlocked Core." In the case of the 3820, we hit 4.3GHz as it's ...