With 3930K in hand, though, it was time to go into the BIOS and see what we could do on the overclocking side of things. We moved to the "Low Current" profile again and that pushed us up to 4 ...

The Core i7-3930K’s results on the Futuremark 3DMark 11 physics test (10,958 and a frame rate of 34.78 frames per second, or fps) were barely behind those of the Core i7-3960X (11,509 and 36.54fps).

Origin Genesis (i7-3930K) : Back The Origin Genesis (Core i7-3930K) ($5,894 direct, 4 stars) has a six-core Intel Core i7-3930K processor and three Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 graphics cards.

The Intel Core i7 3930K is the cheaper alternative to the top-end Sandy Bridge E processor. But then many second hand cars are cheaper than the top-end Sandy Bridge E processor.

Core i7 3930K is also a six-core, 12-threaded chip whose die contains two inactive cores. But there have to be cuts somewhere for product segmentation purposes, and these happen in a couple of ways.

I just went with the i7-3930K. I think I'm going to overclock it with the supervision of some buddies (the MOBO came with some excellent tools to help with overclocking safely).

Intel Core i7 3930K Processor Overclocked To 5.6GHz Using Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 Motherboard (Video) 12:10 pm January 4, 2012 By Julian Horsey ...

Sitting at the top of the Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition lineup is the 3.3GHz Core i7-3960X. Here are the specs for it and the other two newcomers (the Core i7-3930K and the Core i7-3820), in handy ...

And because this is a serious, packed computer, you’ll feel plenty of heat ascending: The Intel Core i7-3930K processor has been overclocked to a blistering 4.8GHz (though, rest assured, it’s ...

The Mach V is the first system that we’ve tested using one of the new Sandy Bridge-E processors, in this case the six-core Core i7-3930K, which has been overclocked to 4.5GHz.

The Core i7-3930K’s results on the Futuremark 3DMark 11 physics test (10,958 and a frame rate of 34.78 frames per second, or fps) were barely behind those of the Core i7-3960X (11,509 and 36.54fps).

Yes, this Core i7 3930K is based on the same, quite colossal 2.27 billion transistor chip, known as Sandy Bridge E. So, it shares most of the same specifications as the Core i7 3960X.