The
Intel i7 3820 has not been released as of the writing of this
article. It is due out in the first quarter of 2012. (With that in
mind, there are some pretty intelligent guesses in this article
regarding some of its features based on other processors in this
line, as well as historical trends. Wherever you see numbers or
specifications in Italics,
you can be rest assured, that they are intelligent guesses.) Running
on the X79 chip-set (SB-E architecture), this is the least impressive
of the three musketeers (i7 3960X, i7 3930K being the other two) that
were announced together.
The
Intel Core i7 3820 Processor is NOT extreme, and is NOT unlocked for
overclocking. Depending on the pricing that Intel's marketing
department decides on, the AMD FX 8150 may end up facing a
price/performance challenge with this one.
The
AMD FX 8150 is a beast of a processor in more ways than one, and it
IS unlocked for overclocking and if you can call having 8 cores
extreme, then it is also an extreme processor. The FX 8150 is AMD's
flagship desktop processor, and can definitely go head to head with,
and beat the i7 3820 in many ways. First of all we are going to look
at the basics:
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i7
3820
|
AMD
FX 8150
|
Launched
|
First
quarter 2012
|
October
12, 2011
|
Speed
|
3600
MHz
|
3600
MHz
|
Cores
|
4
|
8
|
Price
(week of Dec. 10, 2011)
|
US
$300*
|
US
$240
|
*Because
the processor has not been released yet, I am speculating based on
Intel's pricing history with similar lines of processors. Based on
that history, I figure that Intel would price it half as much as they
want to sell the next one up, which is the i7 3830K.
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