Intel have introduced the third member of the LGA2011 Sandy Bridge-E family in the form of the Core i7-3820. The chip joins the ranks with the current chips, i7-3960X and i7-3930K.

The new Core i7-3820 has a clock speed of 3.6GHz, has just four cores with four hyper-threaded cores (versus the six-of-each on the two other SB-E chips), 10MB of L3 cache, Turbo Speeds of 3.9GHz, a max overclock multiplier of 45x, a TDP of 130W and a price of just $294.

This new chip is the Sandy Bridge-E chip, on a budget. AnandTech give three reasons why you'll want the Core i7-3820:

1. You need PCIe 3.0 today and/or you need more PCIe lanes than a Core i7-2600K can provide.
2. You need tons of memory bandwidth for a particular application.
3. You want a 2600K but you need a platform that can support more memory (32GB+).

Yep, that's enough convincing for me. Looks tasty indeed.