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Rating 5 out of 5 stars with 22 reviews

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Customers consistently note the Core i5-13500's affordability, efficiency, and gaming capabilities. Many are impressed with its price, calling it a "great little bump" for their systems. Others appreciate its efficiency, describing it as an "excellent, efficient platform" for everyday tasks. Gamers also find it to be a great choice, noting that it outperforms the 12600K in both productivity and some games.

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  • Pros mentioned:
    Performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Perfect productivity CPU

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    Posted . Owned for 10 months when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Great value for performance. Great for productivity, as in my case. Recommend.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Performance, Processor speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    The sweet spot for this generation!

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    Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    This is an excellent CPU with a nice added boost of specs over last gen. It's very snappy and makes for an excellent mid range gaming PC or a really strong office/work PC. Runs really efficiently thanks to all the E-cores and handles about anything I can throw at it. Working great as an office CPU for my dad that I expect will last him a very long time. My only complaint is this guy will run a little hot under a sustained high load when using the included cooler. I'd try to use a better cooler if you can as it will be very beneficial to prevent thermal throttling if you hit it with high load use cases.

    I would recommend this to a friend
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    Processor speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great for a home server

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    Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I recently was looking to cut some power from my home server running unraid. It sucked back 80-100W just to idle with “low power” xeons from ~2010. I swapped it out with this CPU and a MSI B660m Mortar which now idles at ~30w with more threads, a higher clockspeed, and quicksync for transcoding. HUGE upgrade, very satisfied.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Performance, Processor speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Do not sleep on this sneaky-awesome CPU

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Such a great upper mid-tier CPU, especially when it was briefly marked down to $210. The extra efficiency cores make liife heaven for heavy work-from-homers with innumerable browsing tabs and docs open at the same time. Paired this with an RX 6700 (non XT) graphics card. My heavy content and video editing, with some gaming on the side, now runs absurdly and buttery smooth.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Intel is always a great choice

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    Posted . Owned for 6 months when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I've always used intel for my gaming PC's. Great value for even higher quality games. Low energy consumption, great performance. 10/10!!

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great all-around CPU!!

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Excellent, efficient platform for everyday workloads!! I'd been eyeing this CPU for some time and when BestBuy had it on sale for $209 with free shipping it was a no-brainer!! This far exceeds the 10700K it replaced in both mulit-core and single-core benchmarks while running cooler and using less energy!

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Performance, Processor speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great CPU, Best Buy is Awesome Too

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Great CPU. Fast and relatively power efficient. Use it for home office and remote work. Bestbuy had the best price and it was delivered to my door the next day. Best Buy is outstanding!

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great CPU for the right use case.

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    Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Lightning quick and at $200 on sale a great little bump for my new NAS. It has the intel UHD 770 igpu so it’ll burn through transcoding like a breeze for all media content. Has the performance + efficient cpu breakdown and so it’ll fire up when I put it through image processing for like photoprism.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Performance, Price

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great buy at a great price

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Excellent processor, it performs as promised. And the price was great! Very happy with purchase.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Very nice pick up

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    Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    As of buying this, and getting a discount of 50 when i did. I think it was a great product. No problems and very simple install

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Sweet spot between the 13400 and 13600

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I decided to go with this CPU after reading a lot of recommendations for both the 13400 and the 13600. The 13500 seemed to be a great fit for gaming, especially ultra quality, high frame, 1080p. Has not disapointed.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Solid CPU

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    Posted . Owned for 3 months when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I upgraded from the i3 13100f to this cpu and it was a big difference paired with the rx 7600 its a great beginner build.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Processor speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Intel chip

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Love it. I'm an intel girl, so naturally, I went w Intel on this last build. Love it as always. It's fast, effortlessly running Linux and able to game. So win win.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Price

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great Value

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    Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    At the sale price of $210 this CPU is really hard to beat. Its a harder sell at full price, but on sale it's essentially a slightly lower clocked 13600k for $100 less. If you're building a value PC, definitely give this a look.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Intel I5 Review

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    It works great, my son built a gaming computer and loves it. Easy to install.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Good processor

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    Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Better than 12600K for productivity and some games. Look out for the 13600K when it's on sale! It's at a similar price but much better performance wise.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    great cpu for price

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    absolutely excellent performance in all tasks, great for gaming and handles cpu intensive applications amazing. runs very cool

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    PC

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Works very fast and efficient. Quality is also on point.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Processor speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Get this over a 12900k any day

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    Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Runs almost neck and neck with a 12900 but half the power draw and half the price…it is a no brainer

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Price

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Excellent value!

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Excellent value and CPU for a great low price! I would recommend this CPU.

    I would recommend this to a friend
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