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Intel® Core™ i5-9600K Processor

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Intel® Core™ i5-9600K Processor

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  • 04/08/2020

    Summary

    Choosing the right CPU for your gaming rig can be a bit tricky. For gaming, you basically need a great graphics card, but the CPU is also essential because its performance will directly impact the video card.So, no matter how much you pay for a GPU, if th...

    proclockers.com
  • 09/13/2019

    Summary

    Legit Reviews has been using Blender in our benchmarks for years and hopefully you've found the results worthwhile and interesting. Blender, for those that might not know, is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D p...

    legitreviews.com
  • 01/27/2019

    Summary

    The battle for the hexa-core crown The Intel Core i5-9600K is the latest Coffee Lake desktop processor that we have in for review. The hexa-core CPU offers almost the same specifications as its predecessor but with a ramped-up clock speed. Read on to find...

    notebookcheck.net
  • 12/28/2018

    Summary

    The Intel Core i5-9600K is available for $279.99. Practically same gaming performance as i7-9700K and i9-9900K at any resolution High performance in less-parallelized or single-threaded workloads Reasonably high multi-threaded performance Unlocked multipl...

    techpowerup.com
    Pros

    Practically same gaming performance as i7-9700K and i9-9900K at any resolution, High performance in less-parallelized or single-threaded workloads, Reasonably high multi-threaded performance, Unlocked multiplier, Integrated graphics, Supports up to 128 GB...

    Cons

    Expensive, made worse by high DIY retail channel pricing, Lacks HyperThreading, No cooler included, unlike competition

  • 12/07/2018

    Summary

    There are so many processors on the market these days that how suitable a particular model is to your setup depends upon your requirements. In fact, it's vital that you're honest with yourself as to your usage so as to ensure maximum enjoyment. It would b...

    overclock3d.net
  • 12/04/2018

    Summary

    The Core i5-9600K is an iterative update over the previous-gen model. But if you're shopping for a new processor, it does provide enough of a performance improvement to merit attention. The processor clearly provides the best performance for gaming at its...

    tomshardware.com
    Pros

    Single-threaded performance, Gaming performance, Unlocked multiplier for overclocking,

    Cons

    No bundled cooler, Requires Z-series motherboard to overclock

  • 11/29/2018

    Summary

    The Intel Core i5-9600K is a very good part for the $278 price tag. If you are going to run it at stock settings, it will best the 8600K that precedes it, by a slim margin. That said, it hardly encourages anyone with an 8600K to upgrade either. If you are...

    hardocp.com
  • 11/26/2018

    Summary

    Battlefield V is playable on quad-cores but you can expect frequent frame dips, resulting in less consistent frame rates. For the most part, we've found that the older Core i5-7600K has been hanging in there pretty well with AAA titles released in 2018, b...

    techspot.com
  • 10/26/2018

    Summary

    Intel's recent launch of the Core i9-9900K has a lot of people asking what it means to have the best gaming CPU around. The answer to that question is complicated, and we wanted to take a break from our usual System Guide format to dive deep into this spe...

    Techreport.com
  • 10/25/2018

    Summary

    Intel's newest line of desktop processors bring with them a number of changes designed to sway favor with performance enthusiasts. These new parts bring Intel's consumer processors up to eight cores, with higher frequencies, better thermal connectivity, a...

    anandtech.com
  • 10/19/2018

    Summary

    While testing the Core i5 9600K the multi-threaded performance was a bit lack-luster, this proc really could have used SMT (Hyper-threading). However, Intel carefully examined the Achilles heel of Ryzen processors and realized that with (and only) very ex...

    guru3d.com
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