
"I am a builder but just for general business use, graphics, CAD, data processing, and a little gaming. Once I got it into a working motherboard, it has worked flawlessly. Good product at a good price."


"runs extremely smooth"

"Easy to install and set up. Works great with the MSI z490 MPG gaming motherboard and Cooler Master Hyper 212 RGB Black Edition CPU cooler."


"I havent even been able to go over 80% use yet I was streaming and playing call of duty and had a bunch of tabs I didnt need open great cpu"

"I upgraded from an I3-10100 to this I5-11500 and see a marked improvement in performance from Affinity Photo, Visual Studio, Android Studio and IntelliJ. I am not a gamer so I don't count frames but instead rate a processor by program loading times and smoothness of operations. My computer also doubles as a Plex Media Server that wirelessly stream..."

"Trade in program let me swap this for my old 13600k to get a much better binned CPU and two free games (Battlefield 6 & Assassin's Creed Shadows) for a grand total cost of $18 in the end. Not bad."

"very easy to install and the heatsink is good. if you plan on running this PC 24/7 in a oven then maybe you'd want a aftermarket cooler. however, in normal conditions in remains cool in idle and in load. the CPU has enough power to run any program or game for years to come. match this with a good GPU and you'll have a great PC for a long time."

"Good value and runs well. I have always been a fan of Intel products."

"Fast 10 core, good binning 4.2 totally stable at 1.2 vcore 20 threads - yum"

"Latest generation of the Core I5 unlocked CPU. Great for general purpose computing."