A very overclockable CPU with solid multipurpose performance, but AMD’s Ryzen chips offer better value in some areas

The entire lineup of Intel mainstream CPUs shifted with the launch of Coffee Lake. For starters, the fantastic quad-core Core i3-8350K costs under £200, making it the new budget gaming king, but the Core i5-8600K shakes up the range, too. While the Core i3-8350K is fine for most games, as well as typical tasks such as web browsing and streaming video, increasing numbers of applications now make use of more than four cores, and that’s where the Core i5-8600K really shines, as it brings six overclockable cores to the Core i5 range for the first time.

Its additional two cores effectively give it 50% more multithreaded grunt than both the new Core i3 and its predecessor, the Core i5-7600K. It’s the biggest change to Intel’s most popular K-series CPU in an age – the last time we saw an Intel core boost in this price league was with the Core 2 Q6600 ten years ago.
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