Intel Core i5-9600K Desktop Processor 6 Cores up to 4.6 GHz Turbo unlocked LGA1151 300 Series 95W, BX80684I59600K

It performs very close to other 600k series like the I5 11600k and 12600k with a lower cost, perfect for an upgrade without updating the motherboard

Idc what anyone says, I love my 9600k. It does the job for me! Love this CPU. Great for gaming, speed is great for me, great quality and haven’t even changed from the stock cooling fan. It works great, always easy to install

Got this little guy OC'd to 5ghz stable at 1.34V (doing some research it seems like anything over 1.4 can shorten the lifespan) and it handles anything I can throw at it gamingwise, pulls 60fps in emulators like cemu and rpcs3 no problem. Heat dispersion is amazing. Not even using a watercooled setup, I literally slapped my old hyper 212 evo on this thing with a tube of 10 year old artic silver 5 and 6 months later it STILL doesn't go above 70C even when stress testing and doesn't even hit 60 at normal load when gaming. Video rendering is solid too, but if you are really big on that you could probably do better with the extra cores of an i7 or i9. But if you're mostly just looking to play games then this baby will serve you well for a very long time at a great value.

My last rig was a dated i5-3570K OC'ed. I've finally switched over to this i5-9600K along with an NVMe SSD and RTX 2070. Boy is it fast. Temps, air cooled with the Hyper 212 Evo is steady at low 30's C and peaking at low 60'ish, and keep in mind this is with an OC profile of 4.2 Ghz (increased by 500 Mhz from the stock clocks at no voltage change). It's crushing every game that I throw at it at 1080p, from Overwatch and Escape from Tarkov to even Star Citizen. Overall very happy with the result. The only thing is Amazon dropped the price by $30 merely a few days to a week after I placed my order and having waited for 3 months for it to drop and it didn't. So if you can wait longer next time, do so. The price WILL drop. You won't regret this CPU for your money.

I have been building my own gaming pc's since 2011. In an effort to save a few $$, I opt to use the i5 vs the i7 and go for a higher end graphics card. While this may not be the optimal choice for most gamers, it has been a good working strategy for me.The gaming pc's I have built have been serviceable for as long as 5 years, with my last one retired utilizing an i5 3570K which my wife had been using when I upgraded my system in 2017 toan i5 7600K.Both of these sysytems rocked gaming for me, never a problem, glitch, slowing of frame rates etc.When the 3570K system started having some motherboard issues, I rebuilt a pc for my wife integrating the bulk of my 2017 i5 7600k build into it. She has a blazing fast pc and is quite content with it.Filling the void, I built my current system with the Core i5 9600K, using a 1TB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 ssd as the main drive and a Samsung 1TB evo ssd for secondary. This is the fastest pc I have ever owned, with remarkably fast boot up and loading speads. The M.2 ssd makes boot time from the appearance of the bios screen to Windows between 4.2 seconds the fastest and 4.8 seconds being the slowest...remarkable.Gameplay is fantastic. I mostly play FPS & 3rd person shooters, and a few other type games like the Tomb Raider series. It may of course be my imagination, but evrything appears to be faster, more sharp and extremely fluid. I' sold on this cpu!I would definitely recommend it.Pros: Everything!Cons: None!

Intel does one thing really well all the time. And that single core performance. The i-5 has a super crazy high clock speed, with turbo or manual overclocking. So for $200 you can really get a lot out of this chip.In my experience, mainly using this chip as a workstation CPU, I find that it's a little lackluster especially for 4K video editing but that's just due to the nature of it being a more or less budget CPU. If you want the best bang for the buck, then the AMD Ryzen 5/7 line can be had for a lesser price (or same price for a ryzen 7) and you will have much better threading performance which is very useful for video editing and rendering.As a gaming PC, this thing rang SWBF2 at ultra setting without a hiccup thanks to a beast graphics card so no complaints as a casual gaming chip.Overall, if you are not buying a motherboard that can over clock this CPU, you're wasting your money. The i-5 shines when you start boosting it. Especially for gaming and tasks that don't require multiple cores for optimized usage. Be warned it does run a little hot because of it's high voltage and the fans will start spinning fast early.Be sure to buy a silent fan or don't go cheap on water coolers with cheap fans.

This unit was purchased to go into a 9th generation LGA 1151 motherboard to upgrade a PC to Windows 11 Pro. It is still in the box until that motherboard is purchased. I consider it a good buy for that purpose considering they are getting harder to find.***Update: Installed this unit February 4, 2025, and tested it with the Intel Processor Diagnostics Tool. It passed all tests. However, it only listed a 1 Core, not the advertised 6 Cores.A call to the reseller was not helpful and he stated he could do nothing to remedy the discrepancy...His statement was "I'm just a reseller, I do not look at the number of cores, just the product number."No refund or exchange, just a $20.00 "Peace Offering" to make me go away. As they say, buyer beware. I ordered this unit in good faith only to be led astray by the description given on the Amazon site.