The 2XXX Second Generation of the Intel Core Processor Family took off this past year with many early adopters pleasantly surprised by the abundance of speed, updated technologies, and better graphics integration. Here at TechwareLabs we had the pleasure of reviewing the i5-2500K and i7-2600K last year with future prospect of greater economical choices to come in Q1 2012. The Sandy Bridge-E i7-3800 Desktop series takes on many of the 2nd Gen i7-2XXX series features with a boost in base clock speed, cache, and thermal specification. Continuing the 32nm production process and the same 130-watt TDP of its two big brothers it will also require the new LGA2011 socket. The i7-3820 differences include increased PCI-Express lanes, quad channel memory support, and increased memory bandwidth. The major deficit of this model is its four processing cores rather than six (eight threads rather than 12 with hyper-threading) found in this pricier big brother models. This edition also does not include on-board graphics.