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my experience of buy in amazon has been excellent and more with the buy of this product that not tn was only this wonderful processor which I found it at the best price of the market
Rating: 5 / 5

I’ve been building PCs for our family since the early nineties and I’m pretty familiar with today’s hardware, and the typical innovation rates over time. I used this processor to upgrade a two-year old Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 2.2 GHz 2M L2 Chace 800MHz FSB LGA775 Dual-Core Processor. The E4500 was relatively fast at running Vista and Windows 7×64 but I needed more processing power for burning AVCHD images. The i5 definitely delivers faster video editing performance, but I was a bit disappointed at the general Windows 7 performance. I’d say that boot time and normal operations, like opening applications, shutting down, viewing multimedia content, etc., was only slightly faster than the E4500. This processor was put together with an ASUS LGA1156 Intel P55 DDR3 – 2133 ATX Motherboard P7P55D Deluxe motherboard, and 8GBs of very low latency Patriot DDR3 PC3 12800 memory. The i5 is economical and extremely reliable, but simply didn’t deliver the performance boost I was expecting, especially considering the chip-set architecture improvements of the LGA1156 platform. I don’t play games, so perhaps the improvements would be more noticeable there. The processor rates as 6.9 in the Windows 7 Experience Index.

Pros:

- Cheap, compared to faster i7 and i8 processors

Cons:

- LGA1156 heatsink pins are slightly differently spaced than LGA775 pins

- Very few LGA1156 coolers on the market (as of Nov-09)

- Stock cooler/fan was a bit noisy, more so than the stock LGA775 fans

Would I purchase this again? No, I’d spend more money and buy the Intel Core i7 Processor 2.80 GHz 8 MB LGA1156 CPU I7-860BOX

1/27/2010 Update:

I’ve been using this processor for several months now, and I’m happy to report that there are more benefits to moving from a Core 2 Duo than I originally appreciated. Most importantly, encoding AVCHD discs using Sony’s Picture Motion Browser (PMB) software package is very fast. It used to take 2+ hours to burn a 30 minute AVCHD disc. Now it takes 5-10 minutes for the same task. Windows 7 overall is much snappier; it starts faster, and applications like Outlook, Excel, and Word 2007 are much quicker. For the price, this is a great processor. I originally rated this at four stars, but based on experience and value, I’d rate it five stars today. Based on user comments, moving from a HDD to a SSD drive will improve performance even more. I’m planning such an upgrade this summer and will report my findings here.
Rating: 4 / 5

Ordered on the night of feb 4th, shipped on the night of feb 5th, delivered to Miami on the 9th with Amazon free Super Saver Shipping. I got it in Trinidad 2 days later. I ordered it the same time with other parts for the computer but they all shipped the day after. The i5 came alone with a weight of 1.20lbs.

I run Windows 7 64 bit and it never chokes with any apps or games and I have not overclocked it yet. If you want a serious gaming system do not spend more on the CPU than this, put the money towards a better graphics card or better SSD. The turbo boost works flawlessly to throttle the CPU instantaneously as necessary. Using the stock cooler I get mid 30’s (celcius) when on the net or office apps and depending on how aggressively I set the fan speeds the most it reaches is mid 50’s (celcius) while gaming NFS Shift, Modern Warfare 2 on HD resolutions. The CPU never gets maxed out, the bottle neck for me if the GPU and hard drive. Videos run smoothly, there are no freezes or crashes. If I decide to overclock then I will upgrade the stock cooler, the intel stock one is more than adequate for now. It’s been a few weeks now with no problems and I am very happy with the build.

This CPU is amazing value for money, I predict this PC will last me well into the future, and when games get even more intense I can go xfire and get a SSD.

System specs:

Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

Intel Core i5 750 Processor 2.66 GHz 8 MB LGA1156 CPU I5-750BOX (quad core, turbo boost)

Corsair CMX4GX3M2A1600C9 XMS3 4 GB PC3-12800 Core i5 Memory Kit (1600mhz)

XFX Radeon HD 5770 1GB DDR5 PCIE Graphics Card HD577AZNFC (1gb, DX 11)

Gigabyte Intel Core i7/ Core i5/ Core i3/ LGA 1156/ Intel H57/ 4DDR3-2200+/ATI CrossFireX/ HDMI/ USB3.0/ Raid Micro ATX Motherboard GA-H57M-USB3(usb3, 7.1 audio, xfire, raid)

Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 3.5 Inch, 32 MB Cache, 7200 RPM SATA II WD1001FALS

OCZ OCZ600MXSP ModXStream Pro 600 Watt Power Supply (ATX12v 2.2, modular cables, 80+)

Thermaltake VI1000NWS M9 case (2 x 120mm fan, toolless)

IDE dvd burner

Logitech MX 518 High Performance Optical Gaming Mouse (Metal)

Dell S2209w 22″ LCD (5ms, 1080p, DVI-D)

Logitech x530 speakers (5.1, 70w rms)

MS Keyboard

Sony MDR-XD200 headphones

500VA UPS

Windows Experience Index Ratings (max is 7.9):

Processor: 7.3

Memory: 7.7

Graphics: 7.4

Gaming graphics: 7.4

Primary disk: 5.9
Rating: 5 / 5