Testseek.com have collected 78 expert reviews of the Intel Core i7 3820 3.6GHz Socket 2011 and the average rating is 81%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel Core i7 3820 3.6GHz Socket 2011.
January 2012
(81%)
78 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(93%)
602 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Quad Core with Hyperthreading
10MB Intel Smart Cache
Turbo Boost 2.0
AES instructions and Disable Security Bit functions
AVX Vector Extensions
40 lanes of PCI Express 3.0
Intel Enhanced Speedstep Technology
Intel Extreme Memory Profile 1.3 (XMP)
Quadchannel DDR3 support
Price
Solid performance
On par with the similarly priced Core i72600K. The X79 platform supports more RAM and PCI Express 3.0 along with more PCIe lanes
Strong performance
4 cores / 8 threads
40 PCI Express lanes
Highly overclockable
PCI Express 3.0 ready
Insane memory bandwidth
Competitive price
Very good performance
Particularly on single-threaded applications.
PCI-Express 3.0 with 40 lanes
Quad-Channel DDR3
10MB Cache
Easy overclocking because of the Gear Ratio feature
Best QuadCore Performance
Locked CPU that can still be Overclocked
Lots of Overclock Headroom
48 PCIE 3.0 Lanes
Quadchannel memory architecture
Better price than Slower CPUs
The editors didn't like
Feature Tradeoff with 2600K Processor
Gold
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The X79 platform has a high entry price with limited benefit to users. Higher memory latency than LGA1155 processors
High power consumption when overclocked
No QuickSync
Not faster than 2700K
Inconsistent compared with other high-end Intel chips. Partially unlocked multiplier limits overclocking potential. Requires X79 Express motherboard
Video card
Cooler
Not a fully unlocked processor
You lose Intel's QuickSync technology if moving from LGA1155
Abstract: Just a week ago, Intel officially launched its Core i7-3820 Sandy Bridge-E processor, the processor is the first quad-core model in LGA2011 platform, and it’s priced as low as US$294. We have got the CPU and did a small test. As its specs and pricing ...
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I have always been a system upgrader. This meant that I take part prices into consideration more than a "total" system price. I usually transfer old parts over to the new system as they are still up to date. This means that when I do an overhaul, it us...
Solid performance, on par with the similarly priced Core i72600K. The X79 platform supports more RAM and PCI Express 3.0 along with more PCIe lanes
The X79 platform has a high entry price with limited benefit to users. Higher memory latency than LGA1155 processors
For $285, the Core i7-3820 is a worthwhile entry as it repeatedly exceeded the Core i7-2600K's performance output. The new SB-E chip looked particularly favorable in our encoding benchmarks, while its showing was satisfactory in the application tests,...
Abstract: The new LGA 2011 platform for enthusiasts didn’t really impress us that much at launch. Of course, it was not worse than the previous LGA 1366 and LGA 1155 platforms, but it still couldn’t be called a real break-through revolutionary product, to be hon...
High power consumption when overclocked, No QuickSync, Not faster than 2700K
Although it has a number of technical advantages (more cache, more / faster PCIe lanes, newer platform, etc.), the Core i7-3820 performs almost identically to the Core i7-2700K, at least with the applications we used for testing. This is to be expected co...
Those debating between the Core i7-3820 and the Core i7-2700K then have to decide if the added memory support and additional PCIe bandwidth are worth the added cost. If you are a heavy multi-GPU user then that might be the case, otherwise we are kind of...
I see three reasons why you'd want the Core i7 3820:1. You need PCIe 3.0 today and/or you need more PCIe lanes than a Core i7 2600K can provide,2. You need tons of memory bandwidth for a particular application,3. You want a 2600K but you need a platform t...
Abstract: Let's show the basic specs of all Core i7 processors released to date in a series of quick-reference tables. The Core i7 was the first Intel processor to bring an integrated memory controller, feature available on AMD processors since the Athlon 64. In...
The Second Generation Core i7 3820 is a small step-up in terms of performance when compared to Intel's Socket 1155 platform. Originally, the release of the X79 platform was limited to 6-core chips that were priced from $550 up to $999; not the easiest...
