The Intel Core i5-8600K 3.6 GHz 6-Core LGA 1151 Processor provides six cores with each one operating between 3.6 and 4.3 GHz for editing digital content, streaming live gameplay, and running other types of intensive tasks. If you need more performance, you can overclock the cores to function above its maximum frequency. This 8th-generation Intel Core i5-8600K processor is built on Coffee Lake architecture and armed with 9MB of cache memory. The processor is compatible with motherboards that sport an LGA 1151 socket and an Intel Z370 chipset, so the CPU can provide up to sixteen PCIe 3.0 lanes for NVMe storage drives, graphics cards, and other high-performance parts.