Even compared to the Ryzen 5 2600X, though, the Core i5-9600K has issues. It has significantly lower amounts of cache and like the Core i7-9700K, it lacks hyper-threading, so only has six threads.

Hoping to get a head start on its competitors, Switzerland's Arctic Cooling is today launching a trio of CPU coolers that support the upcoming Intel Core i5 Socket LGA1156.