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Still using trusty Q6600

my q8400 still rocking

show weakness with gta v and mortal kombat x
however it is still playable

ran witcher 3 flawless tho, witcher 3 seem more gpu heavy than cpu
 
I was running a Q6700 at 3.7ghz and 'upgraded' recently to Xeon E5450 (q9550) using the LGA 771-775 mod on an Asus P45 board and it'll do 4ghz easily. Mainly bought it to give the conversion a try but definately noticed a small improvement in total war games. Matched with a Gtx580 I think I'm probably at about the right GPU for this set up for 1080p
 
Been running mine since 2007 Play BF-3/4 Far cry 3,War Thunder etc, get good frame rates on everything,Only upgraded the ram to 4gb (and it copes) and upgraded the Graphics to a radeon 6900.Just keeps on chugging.. Maybe i will replace the thermal compound one day but so far the temps are fine..


Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 (1066FSB)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler
Abit IP35 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2(1.9-2.0 Volts-CL 4-4-4-15)
EVGA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB Superclocked-
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
 
Still using mine (bought second hand for £20 18 months ago) on a secondary system that I'll be trialling Windows 10 on later in the month.

It's weird but no matter what I tried I could never get it stable past stock settings. I think it's the entry level mobo I'm using.

Still seems a pretty solid chip for general web/office. I've got no plans on changing any time soon ;)
 
The clips on my heatsink broke the other day so I just replaced it with a cheaper one to keep me going until Skylake is released. I had some success overclocking to 3GHZ, but leaving it at the stock levels now.

It always surprises me how long this CPU/Motherboard has lasted.

Ian
 
slipd said:
Still using mine (bought second hand for £20 18 months ago) on a secondary system that I'll be trialling Windows 10 on later in the month.

It's weird but no matter what I tried I could never get it stable past stock settings. I think it's the entry level mobo I'm using.

Still seems a pretty solid chip for general web/office. I've got no plans on changing any time soon ;)
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They do require quite a bit of amperage to overclock much as well - some cheaper boards simply can't provide enough power to run them much above stock.
 
I loved my Q9650 and still regret selling it.

It was a golden one I bought from a don on here I seem to remember.

Would bench at 5Ghz and i ran it at 4.65Ghz 24/7. Pretty much had top 3 places in everything on HWBot for a while.

Then swapped to a stupid i7-950 that would only do around 4.4 max and 4.2 24/7 so wasnt really much of a lift.
 
There was quite a big jump going from a Q6600 to a 2600k. But after that I just don't see any increases in games at all really :/

My old Q6600 is still running in my Dad's work PC. used all day every day :)
 
I'm using a QX6700 at stock speeds with a ATI 7750 with 4GB of DDR2 RAM. Set it up for the kids to play minecraft. I use it for WOT. Works fine. But really needs a SSD, the HD is really slow and bogs it down. I find for even browsing and general tasks the quad is much better than a dual core.

I'd love to switch it to a G3258 rig but don't have the funds.
 
I've been having similar thoughts about my 2500k.

I'm happy to be saving the money, but it feels a bit wrong to have it sit there for year after year with no worthwhile replacement (at least for my uses).
 
I'm using a Sandy Pentium Dual Core @3.1GHz and it lets me hit 60fps in most games from the last few years. Most recently, Tomb Raider and Bioshock Infinite, using a 7970.

It's surprising (or perhaps not) how CPU "unintensive" (if that is a word) nice looking games from the end of the PS360 era are.
 
I'm still using an E6600 and an HD4850 in a 15 year old case with two 80gb IDE drives that are at least 10 years old and an old 160gb former ps3 drive in a caddy

The CPU used to do 3.2ghz quite comfortably; now it wont; but when inspecting the internals today I realised that the original PSU is now a 500w generic ColorIT PSU that I have no recollection of ever buying

I really only play Total War nowadays on PC and it runs Shogun 2 well and Rome 2 reasonably but Arena crashes to desktop all the time (you could fry eggs on the GPU)
Thinking it may be time to upgrade
 
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