Intel Core i7 3820 Review: $285 Quad-Core Sandy Bridge E
by Anand Lal Shimpi on December 29, 2011 2:28 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- Intel
- Sandy Bridge
- Sandy Bridge E
Gaming Performance
Gaming performance across the board echoes what we've already seen a lot of - the 3820 shows marginal gains over the 2600K.
Civilization V
Civ V's lateGameView benchmark presents us with two separate scores: average frame rate for the entire test as well as a no-render score that only looks at CPU performance.
Crysis: Warhead
Dawn of War II
DiRT 3
We ran two DiRT 3 benchmarks to get an idea for CPU bound and GPU bound performance. First the CPU bound settings:
Metro 2033
Starcraft 2
World of Warcraft
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fteoath64 - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - link
The 3820 is perfect for your needs and I doubt IB boards will come with 4ch RAM or they were 2011 sockets will be over $500 and very similar performance. An overclocked 3820 according to Overclocked site is the fastest processor out there!. They had their 5Ghz on air but I think 4.7Ghz will kick anything else except for an over-clocked hexacore!.nyran125 - Saturday, January 21, 2012 - link
Anyone who has a 2500K or 2600K would have to be off thier rocker to buy this CPU for the price its asking for.metro_2020 - Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - link
these intel man and company are blood sucker mother f....r. god why not they sell them self to suck money of people go to hell.Twisp - Friday, April 8, 2022 - link
I bought this CPU in part thanks to this review. After 10 years still going strong I am finally feeling the bottleneck and looking for an upgrade. I've been through many GPUs several PSUs and cooling systems and memory, all that is original is this bad boy and the P9X79LE I slapped it in. The system has been remarkably stable and felt competitive for many years, only falling off in the last five years or so. Thanks for the review!