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Intel Core i5-7500

Physical Product · CPUs · 9 mentions · 1 subreddit · discussed in r/buildapc

Reddit take

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Pros

  • I'm getting a i5 7500 in a few days, hope it works.
  • we had a G4560 as well and upgraded to i5 7500 it was good enough for a very budget rig

Cons

  • I'm not looking to play AAA titles, I have a different gaming PC I gave to my GF that can run those if I really wanted to, but I mostly play Xbox and light pc gaming, just want a little more out of this so I can play Minecraft with my GF...
  • Lost cause, imo, especially since your CPU can't even officially run Windows 11 and will significantly bottleneck any much more powerful GPU.
  • your cpu is definitely holding you back more than the gpu right now. that i5 7500 is getting pretty long in the tooth for modern games.
  • I just purchased a Dell OptiPlex SFF 3050 i5-7500 8GB Ram 256GB SSD Win 10 Pro Desktop and would like to know the best upgrades that come to mind. I do know this pc is dated but would still appreciate feedback.
  • My current build: Intel i5 7500

Sentiment

2 positive (22%) · 2 mixed (22%) · 5 negative (56%)

Trust + time weighted score: -42% · raw score -33%

What redditors said (9 of 9)

I'm not looking to play AAA titles, I have a different gaming PC I gave to my GF that can run those if I really wanted to, but I mostly play Xbox and light pc gaming, just want a little more out of this so I can play Minecraft with my GF and modded Minecraft with the boys occasionally.
negative · u/L****8 · r/buildapc · Feb 3, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
Lost cause, imo, especially since your CPU can't even officially run Windows 11 and will significantly bottleneck any much more powerful GPU.
negative · u/t****z · r/buildapc · comment · Jan 25, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
your cpu is definitely holding you back more than the gpu right now. that i5 7500 is getting pretty long in the tooth for modern games.
negative · u/E****6 · r/buildapc · comment · Mar 20, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
I'm getting a i5 7500 in a few days, hope it works.
positive · u/W****9 · r/buildapc · comment · Mar 9, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
I just purchased a Dell OptiPlex SFF 3050 i5-7500 8GB Ram 256GB SSD Win 10 Pro Desktop and would like to know the best upgrades that come to mind. I do know this pc is dated but would still appreciate feedback.
mixed · u/v****v · r/buildapc · Feb 25, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
My current build: Intel i5 7500
negative · u/T****7 · r/buildapc · Feb 9, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗ · attribution unverified
To my surprise when i tried to run it with an i5 7500 it failed to post
negative · u/S****5 · r/buildapc · Feb 5, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
The i5 has 4 physical cores (no hyper-threading) running at 3.4GHz. SOME programs seem to run better with actual multi-core instead of multi-threaded.
mixed · u/O****9 · r/buildapc · comment · Mar 14, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
we had a G4560 as well and upgraded to i5 7500 it was good enough for a very budget rig
positive · u/u****n · r/buildapc · comment · Mar 4, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗

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