Review on Processor Intel Core i7-3820 LGA2011, 4 x 3600 MHz, BOX by Wiktor Skowroski ᠌

Name: Processor Intel Core i7-3820 LGA2011, 4 x 3600 MHz, BOX
Item: Processor Intel Core i7-3820 LGA2011, 4 x 3600 MHz, BOX
Rating: 5

May 29, 2023

Good quality product, I rate this purchase excellent.

This percent is for those who need rough computing power, work in several threads. For games at high settings, of course, it’s also good, but only a few games use more than 1 core, it became more reasonable to take other models with a higher core frequency. It was written here, and also in many other places, that in this processor with stepping c0 and c1 there is an error with one of the virtualization technologies (Vt-d). So. I have a processor with stepping c1 and everything works fine. I've checked this many times, so I know what I'm talking about. I didn’t assemble the computer myself, so I don’t know what they messed up there, it’s possible that the BIOS of the mother’s specialists reflashed me. On some site it was said that enthusiasts noticed that ating the BIOS solves the problem with virtualization on core i7-3930 k with c1 stepping. This seems to be what happened in my case. Motherboard Sabertooth x79.

Pros

Excellent performance, especially good for multi-threaded tasks.

Cons

Sufficiently high power consumption (and hence heat dissipation) and the price bites, although for those who need this percentage for work or games at high settings, this is not such a big drawback. Here with the core i7-3960x for 30k, it’s definitely idiocy.