The Core 2 Quad Q6600 | Legendary but can it Still Perform?
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
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5:57 I meant for that to be Elite Dangerous XD
Listened this with headphones for the first time, this is amazing!
All core duos can perform all productivity task well. Web browsing, word suite and any old game is more than enough power. I use a q9650 for a server
Yeah. Hell my dad until just a year ago was using a very low clocked core 2 duo system and it did his youtube and emails just fine for him.
This was nicely made man, keep it up!
Thanks man! This is just one of many videos coming down the line!
My old Core 2 Quad extreme edition lasted me well until 2016 then i upgraded to an i5 and am still using the same old i5 PC lol as i am not into gaming anymore , I prefer the classics Thief deadly shadows still the greatest steal game ever made ,as GTA 5 is the best GTA game ever too those 2 games are all you need to have a happy existence lol
Good video you just earned another subscriber
Thanks!
Nice video this week I made one similar about Intel E8400 for Office use...is valid today!
Awesome!
great video i subscribed
Thanks!
It still can do almost everything (I know a person who uses Q6700 with 8GB of RAM, SSD drive and GT610 VGA card for web surfing and online video watching on daily basis in 2023) but not worth keeping it as main computer. 3-4th gen core systems are virtually given away in 2023 (one can buy 4th gen i5 with 8GB of RAM and 240GB SSD drive for 50 EUR in Lithuania where I live), so let's just keep a warm place in our memory for legendary machines which lasted 15 years and retire them. Ivy bridge will live even longer.
Yeah 3rd and 4th gen core machine really are where its at for the oldest system you can still get away with running 99.9% of programs with at least some amount of speed. But as you say... yeah browsing the web is still fine on the Q6600 and even is just about manageable on core 2 duo systems as well. Although P4 and older just isn't fast enough anymore for that really.
still running a heavily modded Minecraft server on one of these. It handles 5 players just fine without too much performance issues. I'm sure I could make it better using the BSEL mod to OC to 3.0GHz. Pretty sure the cooler in that machine can handle it running at 4GHz, but sadly it's an el cheapo OEM machine.
The specs are: Q6600 @ 2.4GHz, 14GB DDR3 @ 1066MHz (3x4GB, 1x2GB), Lenovo M58p Motherboard, 240GB SanDisk SSD Plus SATA and 2TB WD Red.
Back when I got this PC back in 2020 it had a Core 2 Duo E8400, 3GB RAM, 160GB WD Blue HDD (which was dying) and a GT 620 (which was also dying). I picked it up for £15, which I'm still very happy with that deal, especially with how stable and reliable this machine is.
Dang for 15 euros that's actually a pretty damn good buy!
@@DimondDoesTech since it's British pounds it's a tiny bit more than you initially read it as but still a great deal either way.
I'll actually buy this processor for now since I have a pentium e6600 and a gt 1030. It dosen't perform great when recording at 60fps on obs in minecraft at 25fps. Buying this mainly for valorant, hope this actually performs better, nice video! subbed
Oh dude the q6600 is a HUGE upgrade from the e6600. You can get decently close to the figures I showed in terms of fps if you do the tape overclocking method with the q6600
@@DimondDoesTech OH DAMN well thanks dude!
No problem!
what linux distro you advice for Q6600?
I try Rocky9 / Debian 12.4 but there are some problem with storage partition
Man you deserve so much more
Core 2 quad q6600 vs q8400???
The Q8400 is only better than the Q6600 in stock applications. Both will overclock to roughly the same speed on a compatible motherboard
got a Q9650@4.2ghz paired to a gtx 960 in my retro gaming build, for windows XP games it's an absolute beast and play modern games up to 2017 at 60fps on high in 1080p.
Holy cow 4.2GHz is nuts for one of these! And pairing it with a 960 ensures backwards compatibility where the GPU isn't too new to be used on Windows XP as well which is very cool!
9x467mhz paired with a Gigabyte EP45T-UD3P and 2x2gb of G.Skill 2000mhz ddr3, 1.45v cpu core, don't even reach 70 degrees on burntest with a 120mm AIO.
@@slckb0y65 Holy cow that is insane. All I got left from the machine in this video is some seriously fast 1200MHz 4x1GB Patriot DDR2. Sadly this Asus P5E board in the video couldn't hit anywhere NEAR 1200MHz on all 4 dimms.
@@DimondDoesTech recommand going for a P45/ddr3 platform if you want to go for high clock speed. also try 2 dimms instate of 4, and try both memory channels, sometimes make a difference.
one thing you can do with that platform tho is about the best windows 98 build you can make , just get yourself a X850XT and an Audigy 2 ZX,
and you got the very last compatible hardware, btw the X850XT is about twice as fast as the last compatible nvidia card.
in fact if you patch windows 98 to use more than 512mb of ram or limit it in the msconfig you can quite nicely dual boot it with windows XP using 2gb of ram and play pretty much everything from 1990 to 2005 at max settings, max resolution, with EAX, ... pair it with a 500gb SSD and you got yourself a cheap yet pretty nice little beast.
@@slckb0y65 Holy cow that is pretty awesome! I do want to eventually go about reviewing AGP cards but I am limited to Windows XP on the machine I have that has AGP due to IRQ conflicts between, on the cards that have them, the PCIe to AGP bridge chip on the GPU I currently have in that machine. However if I am using a native AGP card it would be fine. Perhaps Linux might be the best option on that system (Athlon 64 X2 4200+ @ 2.52GHz, 4GB RAM, HD 3650 AGP, I also have a radeon 9550 XL and an actively cooled 9550 as well as a horrendous Rage 32 or whatever it is out of some god awful Dell system) And you bet I definitely want to review the old OLD ATi cards like that!
A very underrated classic. You should dive into the athlon x2 and x4s next. They are dirt cheap. I had rocket league running on one with an hd 4550 a year or two ago
Not a half bad idea however I have a better idea. Depending on what games I can get running on Windows XP, I would love to take a look at my socket 939 rig with an Athlon 64 X2 4200+ OCed to 2.52GHz with an AGP HD 3650 1GB.
Edit: However due to IRQ conflicts with the PCIe to AGP converter chip on the 3650 it causes a crap load of issues trying to install drivers under windows 7. However I have not tried Windows Vista but I'd imagine the issues are probably going to be the same.
@@DimondDoesTech there is a homebrewish(?) Version of 7 that I got working on an am2 socket 64x2. Sure it's not as exciting but may give you an out to do something similar
@@bozzy7946 Well the real issue is that Windows 7 AGP drivers do not exist for my motherboard, because its an Abit board... But if I could somehow transfer my drivers from Windows XP (which do work confirmed with the AGP bridge chip) to Windows 7 without it being a massive hassle.
@@DimondDoesTech I saw a forum post where someone used ati catalyst 7.2 to install vista drivers in windows 7. Idk if it'd work with an abit board but it was a 939 board
@@bozzy7946 The GPU drivers aren't the issue. It's the AGP chipset drivers for the motherboard that REALLY hate Windows 7
Would you believe me if I told you that I bought a Q6600 in late 2007 and still use it to this day on the same motherboard? And its trucking along at 3555MHz as well. Thats 15 years of almost daily usage. 😅
Well if you don't care about having the latest, greatest, and fastest computer hardware on the block then really its not too hard to believe. I've heard that plenty of people were still using the 8800 GTX before Nvida's Pascal series of cards released.
@@DimondDoesTech lol I used my 7800 GT from BFG until I upgraded to a Radeon HD 7770 ghz 2gb. I’ve used the 7770 even in my new build with 8th gen core i3 8150K and didn’t upgrade the card until today when I got a GTX 1060 6gb haha. I still play all the same games I’ve been playing since I was younger/kid(BF 1942, BF2, CS1.6, CSS, BioShock, COD1-MW2[2009], HL2, Garry’s mod, ES3 Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim etc…. The most graphically demanding game I currently play is Warthunder.
@@johndoe7901 Huh what a coincidence! I just so happen to have 2 BFG 7800 GT's myself. I just have no idea how I'm going to make a video on them as Windows 10's hardware acceleration on the desktop causes both GPUs to freak right the heck out.
I still use mine as a secondary pc in the bedroom doing shady stuff lmao
I ran a Q6600 until 2016 as a gaming rig and I'm pretty sure the bus speed/RAM is what was holding it back from performing any better.
The issue REALLY holding it back in some games is due to how the cores communicate to each other. As I said its really just 2 dual core CPUs communicating with each other as if it was a dual socket system given that to use more than two cores you HAVE to communicate over the north bridge with adds LOADS of latency, bottlenecks all over the dang place, and just not fun stuff. The lack of modern instructions doesn't help either so you aren't playing something like Apex I don't believe on this machine. The RAM is a limiting factor but its not as bad as you'd think and is a non issue with the Q9xxx chips due to supporting DDR3
@@DimondDoesTech Good to know, I didn't know about the 2 cores having to communicate over the NB. I finally tossed my Q6600 setup a month or so ago but I was only on DDR2 and with how much faster even budget CPUs are these days for a lot less electricity I couldn't justify keeping it anymore.
@@406Steven Yeah I can see that. The Q6600 isn't what I'd call inefficient but games that touch more than 2 cores kinda of just die, like Avorion for instance.
I was given a free pc just now with this q6600 in the card is a r9 270 as well
That's pretty nice! You can do a decent bit of light gaming with those parts
how is it so far .. i've just started and im really overwheld
What gpu do you all recommend for quad cores? I’m currently buying Q9550.
For the Q9550 don't go any faster than a GTX 1070. Not worth.
@@DimondDoesTech I’m planning to get a GTX 750 Ti or GTX 1050 Ti. Thanks for the response my good friend! 👍
my uncles retro gaming pc uses the q9400 and an r9 280x and plays diablo resurected at high settings
Heck yeah! Thats actually kinda impressive he can play at high settings as the 280x is, a good GPU but is a smidge slow by modern standards
I'm currently using Q6600 overclocked at 3.6GHz and it has a performance simmilar to i7 2600K which is 4C/8T cpu. The actual FPS is maybe 15-20fps lower than on 2600K but still... it can be oced to 4GHz with good mobo and PSU. I have P5K-E deluxe from Asus with active cooling VRMs
Yeah you see thats the thing. With the 2600K you really do get far superior gaming performance for not too much more money
@@DimondDoesTech but how it is possible? The 65nm vs 32 and the performance is simmilar with simmilar frequencies. When i tryied to underclock my 2600K to 3GHz , the i7 has same performance as 6600 clocked only to 3.2GHz which is not a problem for the 6600 to run at 3.2 but clearly, the i7 can run at higher frequencies. With disabled hyper threading you will get simmilar performance in every game but Q6600 lacks some instructions that's why the newer games does not run with this old cpu. Upgrading to 8xxx series or 9xxx series will help but in slovakia, the cheapest Q9650 i could find was 80€ that's ridicolous
@@samohraje2433 Yeah I heard that the used market over there in Europe is just thrashed in general. However the issue with the 2600k vs q6600/q9650 comparison is that the 2600k overclocks SKY HIGH. 4GHz is easy peasy on that chip and the core 2 architecture clearly struggles in some areas due to it, essentially being, a dual socket system with 2 dual cores due to how they communicate over the North Bridge.
@@DimondDoesTech when you have your North Bridge overclocked as well, the communication between the each core is faster, i can tell that the Q6600 at 3.8GHz is equally fast as 2600 at 3.8GHz on single core or even on 4 cores. When i disabled hyoer threading on my 2600 and leave only 4 cores avalible, the performance was pretty much the same. The difference between them was like 10 to 25 points in CPUZ benchmark. And the Q6600 on 3.9GHz is only 19% slower than i7 2600 with hyperthreading enabled..
@@DimondDoesTech and yeah, i7 2600K can go sky high but not as much as Q6600. You can overclock a Q6600 by 1.6GHz, try it with an i7 2600K and it will crash everytime above 5GHz mark. Yes, you can apply more core voltage but you will clearly max out the CPU maximum VDD when overclocking above 5GHz and it can be potentially harmfull for the CPU. i dont know where is the maximum VDD but Q6600 has 1.4V and i fed 1.62 in to it to get it stable at 4GHz but the degradation will occur overtime so i lowered it to 3.6 and it runs okay for me.
I had one years ago but the issue was upgrading the ram since it used ddr2, to get 16 gb of that ram is really expensive. The cooler was bad too and it would get to 100 degrees. And yes beam ng does get a lot more fun when you ad cars and objects. Linux also works well on these.
Well it is literally impossible to get 16GB RAM on a Q6600. However you can do that on a Q9550 as that supports DDR3 so you can get 16GB... Given your motherboard is compatible. A bad cooler can always be fixed with a bigger and better cooler though!
@@DimondDoesTech Im confused by this comment. q6600 and q9550 are the same socket. they can both support ddr2 or ddr3 depending on the motherboard.
ddr3 socket 775 boards are more rare than ddr2 boards, but some OEM pcs are ddr3. So a Dell Optiplex 780 can be q6600 16gb ddr3 all day,
@@stevesmith1383I forgot that LGA 775 still had the memory controller on the motherboard, not the CPU. My bad on that.
@@DimondDoesTech 其實有比較小的ddr2 2000mhz支持16gb ram 都是有好幾塊主機板的
@@virtues3153 我為此使用了谷歌翻譯！但是天哪，我認為 DDR2 的極限是 1200MHz，如果幸運的話，可能是 1333MHz。我從不認為它們可以以 2000Mhz 運行。
Shoot I built a budget q9550, 4 sticks ram at total 16gb, 1tb sshd harddrive and a gtx 660ti. Prolly around 50$ in everything and handles everything thrown at it
Dang man thats a pretty good score there. Using the q9xxx series of C2Q CPUs means you get DDR3 support, which, unfortunately the q6600 doesn't get so RAM is limited to max 8GB
your content is really nice men , keep it up
where i live i try to build old computers and flip them , on most of the OLD computers i use antiX linux since it best for old hardware and allows surfing the net very easy , you should try that if you want to try to revive old CPUs
but i have to ask you , is an i3 2100 better then the quad core series (from Q 6600 to the 9400)
i have to options
put more money on to i3 2100 / h61 , get a decent CPU that i can upgrade to i5 and i7
or use the amount of money i have , get a quad core Q series , some DDR3 ram
is the performance diff between the two that high ?
In most tasks the 2100 is a good bit faster than the Q6600 even when the Q6600 is overclocked. And besides something like the i5 2400 absolutely BLOWS THE Q6600 SKY HIGH
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....so im building a "retroish pc" i have a q6600 and a q8200 its mainly used for gaming ive tested and i can run both of them at a happy 3.0ghz .......the q8200 feels mutch faster and responsive but every where i see that the q6600 is better but it feels mutch slower overall....so......what one shoud i use in the pc? Couse im confused at this point.
Definitely the Q6600. It may be older but it has double the L2 cache which is a big deal these days. I really have no idea HOW the q8200 would feel faster given that it has half the L2 cache. The only thing I could guess is that it isn't thermally throttling? The Core 2 Quad series is new enough that thermal throttling exists.
@@DimondDoesTech thats realy wierd indeed then i also cheked the thermals but whit crysis thy run max 50ish so im completely confused and the performance in games are the same.😵💫 (its jused for windows xp era games the pc runs windows xp...i know i know its not a smart idea but its offline and for the fun.)
@@melvinmartinali Well heck if its offline there is no issue with running Windows XP. It makes it feel more authentic to play the game in the appropriate OS it was made for
what graphic card you used to this?
PNY GTX 980 Ti (based on reference blower style cooler)
The real banger was a celeron m
1.33 ghz with a half of a Core
still using mine from 2008 ..taped pins (3ghz) ,8gb Ram with special modules and RTX 2060 and USB3 card...will not run youtube in 4K :(
Dang that 2060 is probably being bottlenecked pretty hard right?
@@DimondDoesTech i think the pci-e bus system..and lack of SSE 4....
What's the gpu u were running with it
Stock blower cooler PNY GTX 980 Ti
even c2d e6320 with oc 3ghz still can do today everything from office work to streaming....with combo gtx 750 even 1080p 60f youtube still can play
Bro intel core 2 duo or intel core 2 quad processor q9550
Pls say whic is best
ANY core 2 quad CPU will FAR surpass a core 2 duo these days so yeah pick up a core 2 quad. The q5550 is not a terrible choice
@@DimondDoesTech Thanks❤🥰
i am using q9550 cpu series and it works great now
This computer configuration includes:
Gigabyte G41 ddr3 . board
CPU Q9550
Ram 8gb ddr3
ssd hard drive
Graphics Card GT420
Power 400w
I only use it for surfing the web and light tasks like watching youtube, how many years can it work well with those tasks? thank you .
Wow one of the rare DDR3 LGA 775 boards. Impressive. Honestly RUclips and web browsing will continue to work fine for years to come especially if you get a new graphics card
@@DimondDoesTech I did not realize they are rare..I still have an ASRock G41 Mobo in working condition lying around
@@elfedorausado Yeah DDR3 on LGA 775 was rather rare as, if I'm not mistaken, its only supported by later Core 2 series chips. If I'm not mistaken the last of the Core 2 series, the 9xxx lineup, like your 9550. People will pay stupid money for a high end DDR3 LGA 775 board honestly.
@@DimondDoesTech I have a Xeon e3110 (e8400 clone) and it also works with DDR3. I have one of those P35C LGA775 combo boards that have 4 DDR2 slots and 2 DDR3 slots. I'm using 2x4GB DDR3 now. It's been a really nice file and media server for the past 10 years.
@@billv4987 Whaaaaaa? Ok must go look at that motherboard as the ones I've heard of have only 2 DDR2 and 2 DDR3 slots
What gpu did you use?
A reference design PNY GTX 980 Ti using the stock blower style cooler and stock clock speed
I need your recommendation for a Graphic Card, which one would be the best options for the Q6600?
I wouldn't go more powerful than a GTX 1650 Super in good faith really
@@DimondDoesTech i'd say a 750ti 2gb, my Q9650@4.2ghz would bottleneck anything higher than a gtx 960 already.
@@slckb0y65 Yeah the 960 is around the same ballpark as a regular 1050 and the 1650 is in between a 1050 ti and a 1060 3gb if I recall so going any higher than that is just not worth the money.
@@DimondDoesTech yup, just went with the 960 because it was the last card officially supported under xp,
with modded drivers you can go up to a 980ti but don't think any other cards are compatible after these.
also you'll need a 4790k to not bottleneck it at this point. again honestly for a q6600 i'd go for a 750ti for best bang for the bucks,
had one paired with a E8600@4.5ghz and it was going pretty smoothly on most xp games.
@@slckb0y65 A w h a t at w h a t GHz?!?! Holy crap that is ludicrous!
Could you try Minecraft with sodium mod beacuse it's an optimizer I have heard that it is better than optifine.
I have seen sodium but it does require a touch more setup. Will definitely think about using it in the future though
@@DimondDoesTech Ok
Is q6600 with 750 ti decent for games like fortnite and valorant
For Fortnite yes but running valorant with a 750 Ti and the q6600 at stock clocks it won't be a good experience.
@@DimondDoesTech how much fps would I get on fortnite
On low settings all the way down for 3d resolution and performance mode?
@@Spiritualeme You'd prob see ~40-50fps on the super low settings that give you a decent framerate
@@DimondDoesTech oh ok
Pretty sure, even a i3 gen4 would be the same price, but better..
Depending on the game you would be correct. However the 4th gen i3s were dual core chips. Even though they had hyperthreading I'd expect that, depending on the game of course, they'd perform about on par with a q9550 with the pants overclocked out of it. So yeah you're certainly correct.
This processor is still not that bad with windows 10 and internet browsing but too slow for gaming.
Impressive but honestly just spend another $10 and get a 2500k.
I know that was why I said that towards the end. A 2500K is faster, has even better overclocking capabilities, and the motherboards are DIRT cheap. So unless you are a weirdo like me that likes this stuff or find a really good deal like I did then 1155 is just SO much better of a platform for value.
@Edgar Grefve Yeah that is definitely true. Especially given its so damn easy to get a q6600 for nothing really and then OC it to 3GHz on ANY motherboard. Its rather fun to do for us more enthusiast types ya know.
If you already have a 775 motherboard, it is a lot cheaper to just upgrade. Especially if you use DDR2, because that would require you to also change the RAM.
Also, at least where I live, 1155 motherboards are more expensive than 775.
CSGO ? R6 ? DIRT?
I didn't try any of them
Yes no comment :p
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at 7:13 u can see "yes no comment? :P" on notepad in your secondary monitor XD
@@SSG_GAMING_000 Eyyyyy someone finally noticed!
@@DimondDoesTech Someone finally figured out my comment too, Eyyy! :-P
@@SSG_GAMING_000 Yeah I was very confused XD