Very nice processor in my opinion, performs very well over my old 6600k, can see significant improvement in performance. Stays much cooler over 6600k, after an hour of gaming case is barely warm and CPU fan dont need to spin at high seed to keep it cool like it did with 6600k, my case would get kind of hot. I was debating over ryzen 3600 but went with intel since ryzen cpu prices drop fast and you loose value over the years of use and they don't over clock well and mother boards for ryzen are much more expensive ( x570 ) and not as stable, they also have too many issues overall. You could go with b450 but you need to update bios and I didn't want to mess with that, with intel resale value is awesome. 9600k cpu performs much better in game performance ( about 13% higher when ... More

Very nice processor in my opinion, performs very well over my old 6600k, can see significant improvement in performance. Stays much cooler over 6600k, after an hour of gaming case is barely warm and CPU fan dont need to spin at high seed to keep it cool like it did with 6600k, my case would get kind of hot. I was debating over ryzen 3600 but went with intel since ryzen cpu prices drop fast and you loose value over the years of use and they don't over clock well and mother boards for ryzen are much more expensive ( x570 ) and not as stable, they also have too many issues overall. You could go with b450 but you need to update bios and I didn't want to mess with that, with intel resale value is awesome. 9600k cpu performs much better in game performance ( about 13% higher when over clocked) and I don't do any streaming or any heavy duty editing, so this was a better choice for me, ryzen 3600 is better for 64-core processing but I don't do any of that. It does not come a cooler but i use my old cooler from my older CPU anyways. To get full performance out of it don't pair this CPU with anymore memory less then ddr4 3000, went with vengence lpx dd4 3000 CL15 for 65 dollars and its super fast. With ryzen 3600 you need much more expensive ddr4 memory to get advertized performance and you will be spending $100 or more on memory. Im happy over all and I should be all set for at least 5 years before ill decide to upgrade and if do i might just upgrade to 9700k in the future. Less