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 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 ...

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 ...

Intel Sandy Bridge-E may be a duo this time, having only two processors (the Core i7-3960X and i7-3930K hexa-cores) to choose from, but early next year it will turn into a trio through the release of ...

The first and only quad-core Sandy Bridge E processor is scheduled to launch on February 13th. Intel sometimes likes and needs to adjust the launch date, but this one looks to be a solid date The new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Intel Core i7 3820 features four cores operating at 3.6GHz, a 10MB L3 cache and HyperThreading support. It also support PCI Express 3.0 and a platform that will take as much as 32GB of system ...

There's not a whole lot to see in terms of power consumption. The i7-3820 system used about the same as the 2600K setup, sipping a few more watts under load. However, it consumed drastically less than ...