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Anyone here still running their Q6600? Using it for a gaming rig still?????? Q6600 appreciation thread.
Q6600 + GTX 760
Plays every game on medium/high settings.
the q6600 fucking rapes black niggers in the ass
that CPU is still faster than anything AMD makes
>>52461616
that is surprising but ok
me
![image_preview[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/k55wxkm.jpg "image_preview[1].jpg")
>>52461585
Q8200 good enough?
I know its un OC-able as fuck but its still surprisingly good anno 2016
>>52461585
I remember my piece of shit B3 Q6600 not being able to go over 3.2ghz without one milllion volts and 10000000000000000C.
1 more thing I just read an archive and some anon said;
>Cool thing about Core2Quad and Core2Extreme chips was that they were basically two CPUs working in tandem.
What do they mean by this?
Is the C2Q not a true Quad core is that what they meant?
I had a Q6600 until I replaced it with my current build.
I still have the motherboard and processor sitting in a box somewhere. I may build something with it.
I5 3350p Is pretty good, Dont buy the q8200.
Not a Q6600, but I gave my little brothers my old QX6700 workstation with a GTX 460. Works fine for games from 2006-2011.
>>52461753
C2Qs are a pair of C2Ds sharing the same package.
>>52461753
>>52461921
pic related but instead of P4s they're C2Ds
>>52461934
>>52461781
Im Q8200 guy >>52461710
Ofc you shouldnt buy the core2Quad (unless you get em for VERY cheap)
What This thread is about is that the C2Q 6600 and others are still performing Very well nowadays,It seems the CPU's after the C2D and C2Q dont "age" as fast as other pc components (read GPUs,Hard drives,Mobo's etc)
>>52461959
I assume the "line method" when applying TIM is usefull only for the Core 2 quad series?
My shitbox-of-the-month DD is a Q6600 with a Quadro FX 1700
Great performer, don't really notice a difference between it and my SB/Nehalem systems for my average workload. After I get 4 GB of ECC DDR2 in it it's going to my Grandma to replace her Pentium D while I bring in a dual E5450 box to replace it.
>>52461974
Its inevitable to upgrade.
>>52461585
I'm using for my Server. Good idea?
Reminder that Core 2 Quads are the most powerful x86 cpus available that aren't botnet.
>>52462073
They're probably botnetted in the chipset Tbh
>>52462073
I'm pretty sure LGA1366 cpus are good
>>52461585
i was until the other day.
turned it into a server.
you should overclock your Q6600. it is pretty easy. even if you have a pre-build like i do. you just have to cover/tape one of the connectors.
http://hubpages.com/technology/Get-more-from-your-Quad-Core-Q6600
you dont have to tape the top. i didnt and get 3GHz now.
>>52462154
also, for the dumb, use black electric tape. not regular tape.
![IMG_20160116_030803[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/2BMGtMm.jpg "IMG_20160116_030803[1].jpg")
Not a Q6600, but a Q8300. Rocking this baby with 8gb of DDR2, it's still perfectly fine for even modern stuff. It's amazing to think this was launched in 2008 but performance wise it's still above average. HD7870 for graphics, BF4 runs well enough to play it until my main computer's mobo gets replaced. RMA taking fucking ages, but it turns out I could do with this computer almost as well.
People buy i3 based rigs for 400-600, but I just don't see the point. Scouring these parts online, used, totals to somewhere under 200. I overpaid a bit for my parts, because I just wanted them quick, but I could've been patient and pay 10-15% less total at least.
$30 for the processor, $50 for the ddr2 (got lucky, not easy to find matching pairs of 2gb DDR2 units with relatively high clock speeds), motherboard I already had but these can be found for 30 and upwards. 7870 nowadays sells for 50 and upwards, so that's 180 combined for the core parts. 430-500w PSU for maybe 30, tips just over 200. And that's parts purchased individually, people sell outdated rigs for next to nothing. A guy I know got a similar set, with the mobo using DDR3, for 150. It already had a GPU, I think 480, but he got a 7850 for it, total under 200. I used an SSD I had laying around, but a 120gb is 50 new, 30 maybe used.
This shit here still rocks. I know I can't break any framerate limits with this rig but fact that it's almost 10 years old in a few years and it works above well warms my heart.
>>52462251
I hate to break it to you man, but you can get a refurbished workstation built around a Haswell (i5-4590 is a popular workstation chip) for $150.
Granted, it's a prebuilt so you're not going to upgrading it ever... but neither are you so...
>>52462152
The libreboot project says all i3/i5/i7 cpus are affected. Going by release date, the i7-920, i7-940 and i7-965ee *may* be okay, but that's it.
>>52462340
Okay, that's true but doesn't apply to where I live.
>>52462363
Where I live you can still get Sandy i5 and sometimes i7s for the equivalent of $200-250. There's probably at least something for you our there.
>>52462355
>i7-920
Good enough for me mane
>>52462355
that feel when i7-920 and q6600
>>52462428
tfw my main comp is i7-920 and my home server runs on q6600
>>52462515
are you me?
my threads:
>>52462154
>>52462428
>>52462549
We are just 2 poorfags with excellent taste my man
>>52461585
Still rocking a Q6600 on one box and a Q9300 on the other.
socket775ftw
>>52462569
>>52462406
>>52462428
>>52462515
aww shit niggas who else /920/ here
CAn anyone point me in the direction of a not retardedly expensive lga 1366 board? theres some dude selling an i7 960 near me for 30$ and it seems like a sick deal but all the boards i find are like 150+
>>52462814
that's the rub, it's like that with all first gen i series, I can get an i7 first gen for about 40dollarydoos, but the cheapest non-OEM motherboard costs at least 70+ most of the time.
>>52462973
70 is downright reasonable, hell i'd even take an oem board
>>52461585
Q9500 reporting in
>>52463016
>i'd even take an oem board
I did just that, Inspiron 580. It's a shitty board, ended up setting it up for my dad since he just uses it to watch movies and check his bank account.
q8200s reporting in
>same performance, 30 watts less
>>52462355
can you link me to a source of that claim?
>>52463052
where'd you score it?
im literally doing exactly that(dad comp) cuz all he has is my old hp and its literally falling apart
>>52463157
scrounging ebay here and there, hell I bought an i3 530 for 15bux to go with.
>>52462814
>not just buying a barebones OEM single-socket workstation
>>52463201
sheei
guess I'll buy the 960 for me and get my dad a core2quad inspiron, probably throw in a gtx 750 and get him some games for funzies
thanks m8
>>52463115
Libreboot explains it all in their faq, with external links. It's the management engine which is the problem. It's present but can be disabled on core 2 cpus, but this changed to no longer be possible in the second half of 2009, which was when the i7 line was released.
https://libreboot.org/faq/
>>52463253
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-DP55WB-LGA-1156-BOXDP55WB-Motherboard-with-i-o-shield-/291655894198?hash=item43e80bc4b6:g:guAAAOSwJkJWjBZ6 it aint much, but this looks like a good deal
>>52463264
so, even if there's an option in the BIOS/Mobo pins to disable it, it won't matter?
Q6600 and 750 ti reporting in
i still own a q6600 but that pc hasn't been used in like 4 years and its gathering dust somewhere in my garage. moved on to i7 920 and 6700k
I still have a Q6600 in an older build. Now I don't really use that machine for much though. Considering making a media server with it.
Do you play cpu intensive games? If yes Q6600 will limit your frame rate on gtx 960 or higher, if you don't play cpu intensive games Q6600 is perfectly sufficient
>>52461633
Q6600 was actually listed in the GTA 5 minimum requirements. It's not quite outdated yet
>>52463297
You can't disable it via normal BIOS options, and if you try to do so anyway with more arcane methods for i3/i5/i7 you'll brick the computer.
>>52463277
>1156
swing and a miss, but thanks. i7 860s are kinda cheap so this might actually be a better option, thank ye
Wow, I'm still on the Q6600 and was about to upgrade, maybe I'll postpone it a bit.
Also 750
Q6600 + gtx 8800 here. plays every game on ultra at 4k 144hz
>>52463591
KEKD
>>52461585
Yeah nigger.
I got it in a dell years ago with a pair of 9800 in sli.
The cards took a shit a few years ago, but the q6600 is still running fine.
i remember back in the day when my dad was building a new home theatre PC and i recommended him this and he got it
I upgraded from a Q6600 to an i5 4670 and after 6 months I upgraded my GTX 460 to a 770 only to discover my PCI-E 16x slot was fucked. Returned my mobo to get fixed (which took them 2 fucking months, the arseholes) so I had to go back to my Q6600 setup again. It was unbearably slow but I just never noticed it before my upgrade.
I still have the gear sitting in my wardrobe but I've used some of the parts (like the PSU) to fix other people's computers so I haven't bothered turning it into a low-powered torrenting machine, even though I really should.
>>52463754
>tfw will never ever get rid of old parts
>still have my x850 XT ayyyyy lmao edition around
relevant info for everyone still running a lga 775 motherboard that supports yorkfield quad cores but doesn't have a top tier core2quad yet.
http://www.delidded.com/lga-771-to-775-adapter/
greatest upgrade price to performance ever.
Q6600 + GTX 750 Ti
Fallout 4 on medium settings.
>>52463805
>physically modifying anything
yeah that will end well
>>52463848
It literally has ended well for thousands of people, you retarded piece of shit. Not everybody's a useless mongoloid who can't perform simple tasks without fucking something up.
>>52463848
it ended well for me. i can understand if you have greasy sausage fingers, but all it takes is a razor to carefully shave out the socket's plastic "safety" tabs.
Yep.
>tfw getting nostalgia from this thread
>had AMD 3800+ x2 when dad had Q6600
>>52463353
hook a poorfag up instead of letting shit go to waste.
also, is anyone not sporting a GTX 750 with the Q6600? i have the non TI 750 version :(
>>52463433
what about 1366 xeons?
>>52463986
Huh. Forgot about those. There's a bunch that were released in March 2009, so they fall into the same category as the i7-920 etc. *May* be okay, but I don't know whether disabling the management engine has been tested on them.
reportan
>>52463848
It ended well for me when doing some extreme underclocking and undervolting to an athlon xp.
>>52464089
this is my backup/lan gaymen pc
>q6700
>4gb ddr3
>500gb hdd
>hd 5770
shame I can't be fucked to get a better motherboard
>>52463805
top cpu for socket 775
>>52462046
yeah maybe,but for how long?
>>52464188
nice. i would have liked to do the same but the power draw is just too much for my preference. i'd fear for my aging motherboard if i dropped a 120w cpu in there and then juiced it.
>>52464212
lmao they didnt even look, the passenger is fine but that driver got FUCKED
>>52464212
>lvl 99 evasion
>tfw going to fall for the dual LGA1366 meme
Athlon II X4 640 here, I can't unlock to 1405T
Feels batman.
I guess I'll just drop in a FX-6300/8320E down the line.
Don't have any Core 2 Quads on hand but have E3300 E3400 E5200 E6300 E7400 on hand...
Recently got sold the E2220 system.
Also have a X2 250
>>52464188
How the hell is that single chip blowing out my dual setup even at 4.1 GHz?
>>52464886
there is something wrong with your setup
>>52464886
>E
That's why
>>52464999
E is little bit slower but this is extreme. something is wrong.
>>52464886
>>52464999
>>52465084
He used 32bit version of cpu-z
>>52465132
This.
>>52464999
The E5450 is identical to the X5450, but with a much cooler 80W TDP.
Dell listed them as X5450s on the service tag inventory though, which is weird.
>>52465132
Probably it right there. I just keep the 32-bit version on my flash drive since I only use it for CPU identification. Disregard all the cocks I suck.
>>52462251
But that's freaking dumb because you can do the same thing with nehalem processors and get an X58 motherboard instead. You can buy i7-920's and 930's all day long for $30 and get true quad cores with hyperthreading that are better clock for clock AND they hit 4ghz pretty easily.
Or, if you're more ambitious, you could buy a 6 core xeon 5650 or 5670 for $60-70.
I gave my Q6600 away. Now rocking a 4790K
>>52461585
Q6600, Nvidia 9800GT, ASUS P5QSE2 reporting in.
>>52463502
Oh, you were looking for 1366? well hell good luck on that one, they aren't as abundant as 1156, nor ever as cheap.
>>52463848
that's such a shitty attitude to have I actually feel kind of sorry for you
>>52461585
I have one sitting in my wardrobe. Not in use. Still good, G0 or whatever the one that was good for overclocking was.
>>52461616
Fuck, are you me?
And yeah everything runs pretty good. Specially if you OC to 3.4 but I'm definitely upgrading this year.
>>52467592
yeah i might just pony up for one tho, although theres a dual socket server board for like 70 and if i got a second 960 that might be fun.
>>52461628
>that CPU is still faster than anything AMD makes
lol
>>52461628
why would someone just go on the internet and tell lies like this?
Q9550, R9 380 here
>>52461585
Technically I am. I just don't use it much anymore. Laptop does everything.
3.6Ghz Q6600 SLACR
E2160 reporting in
>>52461710
q8200 here, still going strong after 6 years.
>>52461585
Do a 775 to 771 mod and put a xeon on it, 12MB cache and good OC due to higher binning.
sup
>>52463502
I recently *upgraded* my i5 750 to a xeon 3470 a while back, so look for xeons on 1156 for a good deal as well.
q9300 reportin in
who /e8400/ here?
>>52461585
Planning to sell one with a P5K for some 30€.
E7500 reporting
I still have my Q6600 + 8800gtx rig at my mom's place. good enough as a spare
