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Intel Core i5 2500

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37 user ratings
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4 stars
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3 stars
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2 stars
5 %
1 stars
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Consumer ratings:
5.0 / 5
Editorial reviews:
5
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Pros

  • good old constant clock speed for maximum accuracy
  • in-depth reviews and helpful tips

Cons

  • lack of such will not affect performance to a significant degree
  • Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs have an integrated graphics processor inside
  • get cheap when sandy bridge has been out a few months

Key specs

  • LGA 1155
  • 3.3 GHz
  • 4
  • 4
  • 95 W
  • 32 nm
  • 6 MB
  • L3

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Intel Core i5 2500 - Pros & Cons

Intel Core i5 2500

Pros

  • good old constant clock speed for maximum accuracy
  • in-depth reviews and helpful tips

Cons

  • lack of such will not affect performance to a significant degree
  • Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs have an integrated graphics processor inside
  • get cheap when sandy bridge has been out a few months
  • 4GHz is a lack of competition to be honest
  • Intel motherboard models are never cheap
  • single-click motherboard auto
  • Quick Sync puts all previous attempts at GPU accelerated video transcoding to
  • You cannot drop Sandy Bridge processors into any existing motherboard
  • the two sockets are entirely incompatible
  • Nor can you use any previous Intel processors with Sandy Bridge-supporting motherboards
  • not quite a full range of processors

Intel Core i5 2500 - Technical Overview

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IconProcessor lithography
32 nm
Best:
HP AMD EPYC 7702
Processor lithography: 7 nm
IconNumber of cores
4
Best:
IconClock speed
3.3 GHz
Best:
AMD FX 9590
Clock speed: 4.7 GHz
IconMax turbo speed
3.7 GHz
Best:
Cisco Intel Xeon E5-2609
Max turbo speed: 24 GHz

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Intel Core i5 2500 - Full Specifications

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General
Processor socketLGA 1155
Operating modes64-bit
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Integrated graphics
On-board graphics adapteryes
TypeIntel HD Graphics 2000
On-board graphics adapter base frequency850.0 MHz
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Features
Thermal monitoring technologiesyes
Maximum number of PCI Express lanes16
Supported instruction setsAVX
Execute disable bityes
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Processor
Clock speed3.3 GHz
Max turbo speed3.7 GHz
Number of cores4
Number of threads4
Thermal Design Power (TDP)95.0 W
Processor lithography0.0 in
Bus typeDMI
Idle statesyes
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Memory
Cache6 MB
Cache typeL3
Maximum internal memory supported by processor32.0 GB
Memory bandwidth supported by processor (max)21.0 GB/s

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