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Is the Q6600 any good?

Troezar said:
It does seem whoever is behind that site has lost the plot. The 5800X3D "review" is laughable, not even subtle in their bias. A deep dive into who is behind it and how they are financed/motivated would be very interesting.
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Being nice to AMD in a past life means Userbenchmark is actually not marketing for Intel. In point of fact, it's only AMD shills who have a problem with the site, because they cannot understand why more cores doesn't always mean faster effective speed. Or why the 5950X is not at the top of every list. They invalid the entire "system" benchmark because OMG userbenchmark changed the way it rates CPUs. That's never happened to no other benchmark, ever.

The takeaway is:
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storm-chaser said:
The takeaway is:
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They are right about the way a certain subset of AMD fans behave :(

I'll always remember a few years back when some pro-AMD users took exception to some of my posts here (and elsewhere) and were posting in the private section of another forum recruiting other posters to sign up to attack me and plotting against me - not knowing I was a moderator there from when the site was about game modding - long before they'd signed up or the site had become a ATI/AMD hub :cry:
 
Two Q9550 systems here with 8gb of DDR2 memory, my daughter is actually using one for light games and to get used to using Windows 10 and a PC before high school, PowerColor HD-5750 1gb GPU, 2.5" SSD, Fractal's budget Core 1000 case. Both will most likley end up with 1050ti's.

Still got an E8500, Scyth Kama Angle, Corsairs Dominator GT DDR2 1066, in red with the fans, but two cores with 4gb of memory is a little lacking. Not willing to pay over £100 for a P45 motherboard either. Though I still regret skipping my old Windows 95/98 beige towers. Corsair CMX1024-3500LL Pro somewhere too, cant imagine an old AMD XP 3200 going far today though.
 
Going through some stuff just now found an E5420 - I thought I'd got rid of all of those - basically a Q9300 with double cache and lower TDP. Used to run 2x game servers with duals of them.
 
It's too old, it might perform fine on low resource tasks, but it will use so much more power and produce heat then anything recent.

But what can you do? You can't sell them for more than a tenner (£6 of which I'd your auction and postage costs) and you can't really throw away perfectly good chips. If they're still working, you need to use them.

You wish they'd do you a favour and just die, so you can upgrade to something more recent.

The AIO water cool failed and the system kept shutting down from overheating. But the CPU survived. Still on i5-2500k
 
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It isn't really about performance though is it. Simply nice to keep old hardware running for the lols sometimes, other times simply because no matter how new kit benchmarks old kit still does the job.

My daughters in Primary school, her current PC is an old Q9550 with 8gb of DDR2 and an HD5750 1gb passive GPU, it serves her well for learning her way around a pc, school work, etc, runs Windows 10 and has SSD storage. It plays her age group games and some of the basic titles popular with her age and with a 1050ti can do a bit more.


A 650w psu is still overkill.


Now compare that to some in these forums running top spec computers with massive over specced hardware with enough RGB to light up Brighton Tower. Many would be just as well with an i3 and 16gb memory with a 3060ti but no, i9 360 AIO, 8 case fans, 64gb memory and a 3080ti to play pubg and fortnight with netflix and youtube.

My daughter can have my old 4770k when I change. Not falling for next gen 48 core/96 thread cpu with 256gb DDR8 at 9000mhz wiyh a 7000 series gpu that requires eight 8 pin connections and a 6000w psu with xray self tanning RGB and esp direct to brain storage solutions along side the 400tb M48 drives required for future tripple AAA 40tb download games.

Still not seen anyone actually utilising their hardware at home. Even at work our daft spec PC custom built for 4k media and youtube content got replaced with a laptop that does the same job while being mobile.


Will continually use and recycle old hardware until it simply cannot be used.
 
sastusbulbas said:
It isn't really about performance though is it. Simply nice to keep old hardware running for the lols sometimes, other times simply because no matter how new kit benchmarks old kit still does the job.

My daughters in Primary school, her current PC is an old Q9550 with 8gb of DDR2 and an HD5750 1gb passive GPU, it serves her well for learning her way around a pc, school work, etc, runs Windows 10 and has SSD storage. It plays her age group games and some of the basic titles popular with her age and with a 1050ti can do a bit more.


A 650w psu is still overkill.


Now compare that to some in these forums running top spec computers with massive over specced hardware with enough RGB to light up Brighton Tower. Many would be just as well with an i3 and 16gb memory with a 3060ti but no, i9 360 AIO, 8 case fans, 64gb memory and a 3080ti to play pubg and fortnight with netflix and youtube.

My daughter can have my old 4770k when I change. Not falling for next gen 48 core/96 thread cpu with 256gb DDR8 at 9000mhz wiyh a 7000 series gpu that requires eight 8 pin connections and a 6000w psu with xray self tanning RGB and esp direct to brain storage solutions along side the 400tb M48 drives required for future tripple AAA 40tb download games.

Still not seen anyone actually utilising their hardware at home. Even at work our daft spec PC custom built for 4k media and youtube content got replaced with a laptop that does the same job while being mobile.


Will continually use and recycle old hardware until it simply cannot be used.
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a few months ago I found a case thrown out with a mobo and a 7700k complete with a noctua NHD 14 cooler. Now I havent tested it yet and mobo is likely done but still it may work and once i get around to fix it I have a very low cost good performing pc for dedicated game servers and perhaps some media related stuff. Old stuff can be great :)
 
Golf1.6 said:
It's too old, it might perform fine on low resource tasks, but it will use so much more power and produce heat then anything recent.

But what can you do? You can't sell them for more than a tenner (£6 of which I'd your auction and postage costs) and you can't really throw away perfectly good chips. If they're still working, you need to use them.

You wish they'd do you a favour and just die, so you can upgrade to something more recent.

The AIO water cool failed and the system kept shutting down from overheating. But the CPU survived. Still on i5-2500k
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Mine survived years of me messing with Vcore voltages to silly levels and all sorts They do not make CPUs like this (at least until recently) they overclocked between 50 to 100% the CPU rate and back then overclocking made such a difference. mine finally clapped out due to the mobo battery dying, short shorting of the motherboard, surging and long with some heavy handed lifting and moving and ended up in the trash. People say they are "ancient" in comparison to modern CPUs, but for single performing tasks the Core 2 Duo bested in Windows a lot of the newer gen Multi core CPU's before they were boosted heavily, due to higher clock rate and a smaller amount of Cores. Its like saying that 4 lanes of cars driving at 50mph will beat one person doing 120mph on a single lane road in the same distance within the same range. they are simply bulletproof processors that lasts easily 10 year+

I remember when the intel core I range was released and just how much they had beaten AMD, but then I remember how the old Athlons beat the old Pentium 4 ranges. They traded Big blows back then, these days there is not very much between them.
 
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