Only compatible with their 300‎-series chipset‎-based motherboards‎,‎ the Core i5‎-9600K 3.7 GHz Six‎-Core LGA 1151 Processor from Intel is designed for gaming‎,‎ creating‎,‎ and productivity‎.‎ It has a base clock speed of 3.7 GHz and comes with features such as Intel Optane Memory support‎,‎ AES‎-NI encryption‎,‎ Intel vPro technology‎,‎ Intel TXT‎,‎ Intel Device Protection with Boot Guard‎,‎ and Intel VT‎-d virtualization technology for directed I/O‎.‎ With Intel Turbo Boost Max 3.0 technology‎,‎ the maximum turbo frequency this processor can achieve is 4.6 GHz‎.‎ Additionally‎,‎ this processor features 6 cores with 6 threads in an LGA 1151 socket‎,‎ has 9MB of cache memory‎,‎ and 24 PCIe lanes‎.‎ Having 6 cores allows the processor to run multiple programs simultaneously without slowing down the system‎,‎ while the 6 threads allow a basic ordered sequence of instructions to be passed through or processed by a single CPU core‎.‎ This processor also supports dual‎-channel DDR4‎-2666 RAM and utilizes 9th‎-generation technology‎.‎