Is my CPU bad?

[bazznet1]

Hey,
I bought an intel i5 7500 CPU one year ago, and I want to know if it is a bad cpu. Is it worth to upgrade?
Thanks.

 

[lewis02]

Hey,
I bought an intel i5 7500 CPU one year ago, and I want to know if it is a bad cpu. Is it worth to upgrade?
Thanks.

It depends on what graphics card you're using and what resolution you're playing at, but there's not really much point upgrading it now. I'd imagine it won't become "bad" for quite a few years.

 

[bazznet1]

Thanks.

More opinions please?

 

[DRagor]

'Bad' is subjective term. It is certainly outdated, much cheaper 8100 can achieve same performance as 7500. But that does not mean it suddenly has less performance because of that. If you were to buy it today, that would be bad deal, but if you have it it is still solid 4-core performer. It may get a little short in uses that need more that 4 cores (streaming during gaming for example) but mostly its fine.
Now, for the upgrade: without changing motherboard, the only sensible upgrade is 7700(K), but I don't consider it worthy for now, unless you can get way below MSRP.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I bought an intel i5 7500 CPU one year ago, and I want to know if it is a bad cpu. Is it worth to upgrade?

Not bad at all. Better than average.
Whether worth to upgrade or not, depends on software being used. Do you have any complains about performance, you're getting?

 

[Finstar]

It's not a bad cpu. It's a lower end cpu. That being said, Ryzen 2000 series is coming pretty soon so if you have around $300-$400 sitting around being useless then a R5 2600 + a motherboard would probably not be a bad idea.