Core i7-3820 Sandy Bridge-E now selling in Japan

[dctokyo]

The Core i7-3820 is a quad-core part selling around 25,000 JPY
http://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/...etc_intel.html

http://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/hotline/20120218/ni_ci3820.html

[El Mano]

Cool, I guess it will be avalaible in Europe soon.
I think it's a nice CPU for gaming if you want yo get higher Ivy Bridge-E CPU later.

[Aberration]

Oh my poor wallet.

[Gorki]

Available here in Croatia, too bad I'm skipping it...

[herderien]

available since yesterday in France on every major etellers @ 290€ (VAT inc)

[El Mano]

Does anybody know if Ivy Bridge E will ever be released? Is it included in Intel's roadmaps?

[ice_chill]

If it goes for around £250 in UK than that's a great price for such a CPU.

[Kuroimaho]

Does anybody know if Ivy Bridge E will ever be released? Is it included in Intel's roadmaps?

Not on the roadmaps yet, can be expected early next year.

I hope with haswell the gap will close between the platforms.

[SkItZo]

No it wont, its been canceled

/end sarcasm

[informal]

available since yesterday in France on every major etellers @ 290€ (VAT inc)

Well it's faster than 2600K so price is a bit higher. But the real downside to this chip is the price of the platform needed for it... 2600K(or even better 2500K) OCed is still unbeatable from perf./price POV.

[herderien]

true, i'm still wondering for an upgrade...and it only OC well around 25% for 24/7 it seems, where my 920 did +40%...but it seems OC margin is lower now.

i think i'm going to wait for ivy in april and decide by then...but it's very tempting with good boards around 200/230€ and 65€ for 4x2 Gb of Gskill ...

damn it...tired of waiting ^^

[Kuroimaho]

Same here, tired of waiting, been waiting all year for BD and SB-E, but this year looks promising.

BD lacked performance, and the SB-E platform was not quite what they promised otherwise I probably would be using both by now.

So now waiting again, IVY, then maybe a new finished chipset for SBE, and PD at least I have a mobo for that.

Still have two Sandy but I am bored with them, lucky for us we get ivy, and kepler soon.

[ice_chill]

A socket 2011 system with a Quadcore CPU would be bought for the large memory size support rather than CPU performance.

[OldChap]

There is even a MB with 8 mem slots ... MSI X79A-GD45 (8D) for those that need just a little more ...128gig support anyone?....I wonder if it clocks well???

[Kuroimaho]

Could be for the PCI-e lanes as well.

[Gunslinger]

Great, they still can't stock the 3930K sufficiently in the US, I wonder how they'll do with this one...

[ice_chill]

You can get many PCIe lanes on 1155 platform using the nVidia mixer chip

[EniGmA1987]

You can get many PCIe lanes on 1155 platform using the nVidia mixer chip

Not true lanes, just shared. Also not the new PCI-E 3.0. It may not be the most useful right now, but a couple years down the road it will matter.
As others have said, getting this CPU on the 2011 platform is mostly cause you would want the additional RAM