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Still using trusty Q6600

Though these chips are still really impressive, stepping up to even a budget modern platform is a night and day kind of change - when you get PCIE3.0, SATA3/NVME, USB3.1 and many many times the memory bandwidth with DDR4 over DDR2 in just one go it makes a hell of a difference! And that's without even taking into account 10 years plus of CPU improvments
 
Still going strong here on my home 'work' machine... I've literally just upgraded it this week with a 1gb 6450 :cool:

Use the rig it's in less and less these days but she's hanging on in there! I might add an ssd next?

My main gaming rig has a 2500k, that's holding its own too.
 
WilberDaForce said:
Hi,

In what is a bit of a disaster for Overclockers in terms of trying to sell new kit, and possibly tempting fate, my Intel Q6600 Core2 Quad processor is still going strong. I can't even work out how long I have had it now - 7 or 8 years maybe? I have upgraded the graphics card twice since then, added a SSD for the system, upped the RAM but my PC just still works really well on Windows 7 Pro. I don't play as many games as I used to but it seems to play Rome 2 Total War decently and really anything I have tried on Steam.

So is anyone else still using this or other old but dependable and adequate kit???
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I suspect you've had it longer than 8 years. That CPU came out in 2007 IIrC
 
Old(ish) thread I know but I am still running my Q6600 bought and installed on release in 2007 in an Asus P5N32E SLI PLUS Mobo (Bought in 2007 also). Have upgraded the GPU only twice (now running a GTX1070.
Looked at upgrading for the sake of it but anything significant would mean a complete overhail.
Its running Win 10 Pro and everything I need just fine so even though I have an i3 2100 looking at me doing nothing, I am happy with the awesome Q6600!
 
staffspeted said:
Old(ish) thread I know but I am still running my Q6600 bought and installed on release in 2007 in an Asus P5N32E SLI PLUS Mobo (Bought in 2007 also). Have upgraded the GPU only twice (now running a GTX1070.
Looked at upgrading for the sake of it but anything significant would mean a complete overhail.
Its running Win 10 Pro and everything I need just fine so even though I have an i3 2100 looking at me doing nothing, I am happy with the awesome Q6600!
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£400 would get you a Ryzen, mobo and 16gb of ram - I think you be surprised how much faster a new system is TBH!
 
Still got two Q6600s in my household. One is running with passive cooling in an HTPC, one is in one of the upstairs bedrooms as a little homework station for the children. Excellent chips.
 
staffspeted said:
Old(ish) thread I know but I am still running my Q6600 bought and installed on release in 2007 in an Asus P5N32E SLI PLUS Mobo (Bought in 2007 also). Have upgraded the GPU only twice (now running a GTX1070.
Looked at upgrading for the sake of it but anything significant would mean a complete overhail.
Its running Win 10 Pro and everything I need just fine so even though I have an i3 2100 looking at me doing nothing, I am happy with the awesome Q6600!
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If you're a gamer the Q6600 just doesn't cut it any more.

I ran one for around seven years at 3.6 but it became CPU bound in multi-threaded games, Dying Light bought it to the fore for me.

Bought a second hand X5650 system (CPU, RAM, board) a couple of years ago and it's been excellent.
 
Participant said:
Still got two Q6600s in my household. One is running with passive cooling in an HTPC, one is in one of the upstairs bedrooms as a little homework station for the children. Excellent chips.
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Get rid of these ancient, power hungry chips and get something modern, energy-efficient for your kids. Little homework can be done on a 5W chip!
 
4K8KW10 said:
Get rid of these ancient, power hungry chips and get something modern, energy-efficient for your kids.
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stupid comment. it'll take years, if not decades for the cost of the new chips to pay off themselves with respect to the reduced electricity bill...
 
Kelt said:
If you're a gamer the Q6600 just doesn't cut it any more.

I ran one for around seven years at 3.6 but it became CPU bound in multi-threaded games, Dying Light bought it to the fore for me.

Bought a second hand X5650 system (CPU, RAM, board) a couple of years ago and it's been excellent.
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Overclocked they still handle a lot of games fine aslong as you aren't expecting too much - with a good overclock ~3.6GHz they'll still get you playable framerates in a lot of games. Some games though they will fall down badly with the mix of both lower single thread and lesser core count compared to newer offerings.
 
Mine wasn't a good clocker (~3.4 as a best case stable overclock) but it handled many games/scenarios very well. There was a very noticeable boost, however, when I moved on to the 3570K.
 
My old Q6600 is still in my Grandmother's PC, along with a very old OCZ Vertex2 SSD (3.5"!) it flies along. Funnily enough it's so much quicker than the cheap-ass laptop the family bought her with no SSD :D
 
Rroff said:
Overclocked they still handle a lot of games fine aslong as you aren't expecting too much - with a good overclock ~3.6GHz they'll still get you playable framerates in a lot of games. Some games though they will fall down badly with the mix of both lower single thread and lesser core count compared to newer offerings.
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Its stock power consumption is 105W. When you overclock it from 2.4 to 3.6GHz, you will get upwards of 200W. WTH?!
 
staffspeted said:
Old(ish) thread I know but I am still running my Q6600 bought and installed on release in 2007 in an Asus P5N32E SLI PLUS Mobo (Bought in 2007 also). Have upgraded the GPU only twice (now running a GTX1070.
Looked at upgrading for the sake of it but anything significant would mean a complete overhail.
Its running Win 10 Pro and everything I need just fine so even though I have an i3 2100 looking at me doing nothing, I am happy with the awesome Q6600!
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Awesome matey..... People upgrade their rigs much sooner then they need to.. I upgraded my E8400 system way, way to soon and I never noticed much of a boost at all with the 2500k I upgraded to.. I was well gutted as that system kind of grew on me.

I'll try not to make the same mistake with my 8086 system that I have had for about 9months so far.
 
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