Intel CORE I5-9600K 3.7 GHZ SKT1151 9MB CACHE BOXED - BX80684I59600K (Components > Processors CPU)

I am running this CPU in my new gaming system that I have built over the past few days and for the price point this is an absolute steal. For solely gaming and other general computing tasks this thing is a winner and blows all Ryzen chips out the park. You can easily overclock this card to 5GHz on all cores if you have adequate cooling. I am running a Noctua NH D14 which you can also pick up for about £60 on amazon and these two work very well together. My temperatures don't exceed 60 degrees Celsius even at full load at 5GHz. Idle temperatures are around 25 degrees Celsius.For you people reading this review that aren't really into overclocking and you are asking yourself is this still a good CPU at stock? Yes it definitely is. The single core performance on this card at stock is better than any other i5 or Ryzen chip and this is still a fantastic gaming CPU with no over clocks.This listing only had around 8 reviews when I purchased my processor but I can assure that for anyone on the fence about purchasing from this seller everything went absolutely fine and my processor works perfectly.

Intel CORE I5-9600K 3.7 GHZ SKT1151 9MB CACHE BOXED - BX80684I59600K - Brilliant customer service from Brad at Maestro when I was looking at another CPU - Thanks Brad ! But delving a little deeper into what my desktop could handle within reason, I decided to order the i5-9600K instead. And who did I order the CPU from ? Yup ! Maestro ! And what a service ! I was able to track the CPU from the minute it was picked up by the courier all the way to my doorstep ! And was I disappointed with the CPU ? 'Not a snowball's chance in heck' ! Updated the BIOS on the desktop, replaced the old i3-8100 with the i5-9600K, replaced the CPU cooler fan, checked the BIOS for any changes I had to make or restore, checked the BIOS to confirm the i5 was installed - yup, and all done ! ( Obviously had to stick a little thermal paste' onto the CPU heatsink IHS - 'Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut' for air cooled CPU fan cooler at the time of replacing the CPU. There are two companies I trust for a really good CPU thermal paste but the best for my needs is 'Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut'. ) Now all I want to do before stressing the PC is change the CPU cooler fan for a superior TDP copper pipe air cooler for a SFF desktop ! Delivery time was excellent ! CPU running as expected ! Maestro company brilliant to deal with - especially customer service via Amazon website ! Thanks Maestro ! 5 Stars ! Pleased !

AMAZING processor! Using a 1660 and was previously using an i5 3570. Bought this and my system has never been faster! I've gotten almost DOUBLE the performance in nearly every game (tiny exaggeration).6c/6t is perfect for gaming!The CPU does well in other applications too like Premiere, Photoshop, Blender, etc.If your motherboard supports overclocking, it makes this processor even better! It ran at 4.3GHz at stock, but I managed to bump it to 5GHz on all cores! (Just a note; Stock runs extremely fine as it is, But OCing will give a bit of a performance boost and if you OC right, it can provide extra stability). I don't really need the extra performance though...Using this CPU with the Kraken x63, I get around 50°c while gaming, so there are no problems in temps.1660 6GB + i5 9600k has less than 1% bottleneck (the perfect combo) so this CPU works amazinglyI recommend this to anyone, it's awesome!Don't hesitate to get this

Really great CPU overall. Bought this to replace a i5 6600k so it was a relatively big upgrade. Was about 35-40% increase in performance on standard clock but this chip overclocked pretty easily. Got it running at 5Ghz on all cores at 1.372V, doesn’t ever touch above 80*C unless running harsh AVX stress tests such as Prime 95. All other stress tests sit ~75*C which I’m happy with. Gaming it normally sits around 65*C. (This CPU is paired with a Corsair H110i-GT cooler, 3200Mhz DDR4 RAM, and a MSI z390a-pro gaming).The gaming performance is really good in this chip, like really good. There is only a ~5% difference between the 9600k,9700k and 9900k according to a lot of benchmarks. So for the price point this CPU is superior to its competitors. AMD can’t compete at this price point for gaming performance - they’ll suffer a 10-15% loss compared to the i5 due to their lower single-core performance; especially when overclocked. I play most newer games at 1080p max settings and get around 60FPS. For some games such as Overwatch I get a solid 150FPS (this is capped for my monitor). This is paired with a GTX 1070 btw, and these two components don’t bottleneck each other at all.

An overclockable CPU that has integrated graphics and more power than a i3. Not really worth but this has potential for 4K Gaming with a good graphics card. Easy installation no rush and everything worked perfect.

Went from an old pre-soldered quad core AMD APU to this.So as one can imagine, this was quite the upgrade. It is so nice having a six core CPU, I can see the benefit of having more than six cores for most games, as well as any video editing and rendering I do.I have this pared with a rtx 2060 super, back before GPU prices skyrocketed. And I think it was a good pairing of what I'd think of as a mid range CPU with a "Mid range" GPU.As for buying this during the GPU shortage, at least from my experiences using the in built graphics on this is passable.Using this can be used fine for video watching and class productivity. As I used the in-built Graphics on this in a VM I needed for specific software needed for my classes.

My CAD use is less than what I did when working, but I have noticed the benefit from multi-threads - along with the CAD I can have a lot more threads open with no decrease in access speeds.I don't use it for gaming, so the clock speed of 4500MHz is ok for me.The core temps are all under 40C even when I'm pushing it (CAD rendering).Well pleased with my choice.