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I have one and it works really strange. Sometimes without problems, sometimes laptop can`t detect it....

I had this cpu, lasted me 10 years, amazing chip!

Best design and feature rich laptop to date I can't give it up because of this reason new gaming laptop lack the feature set this laptop has

It's nice to see some VR Games tested ;) Great video

I'm going to try this with a 4080 soon. Wish me luck. Alienware 17 r3 i7-6700hq

i can’t believe the 4070 ti is considered midrange…

Very good video, still helpful in 2024.

I know the Ti variant is better, of course, but it's insane that the only thing I feel like my GTX 1080 is lacking is VRAM. So, the performance and RAM has me looking at a GTX 1080 Ti or RTX 2080 Ti as it's successor. I assume it'll be more the 2080 ti way since I got a 1080 to sell so might as well.

You do know there was also a 4gb version of this? The reason why it did well for people on the go like me was its low weight and thinness plus separating the tablet from the keyboard allowed me to have better entertainment than my cellphone in places where there is no TV or large monitor. It was never meant to game but its great for media consumption with out wearing out my shoulder with all the bags I'm forced by work to carry. I wouldn't have gone for Ubuntu. Puppy Linux would fly on that. The laptops it faced off were bulky and heavy.

I made windows xp run in a pentium at 75mhz and 64mb dimm ram at 2004... that was epic, since it was running windows 98 with lots of blue screens and the windows xp had no problems nor blue screens...

The real banger was a celeron m 1.33 ghz with a half of a Core

What about the battery!

I'm pretty sure that if you press F11 on Minecraft and use a texture pack that limits all the textures to 4 individual pixels on one block, you could maybe get a playable game in a plains biome or a superflat world, I would want to try it myself but I don't really have a working G3 iMac right now.

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

I have one i got used back in '16. Its the 32GB version. I still use it a lot for VNs (whether or not one would consider those as games is subjective, but they are available on steam...) and some PS2 era games (would you believe Flatout 1 and 2 work well?!) Still kicking stones around with Win10. Performance settings are set to performance. So crunchy text, no animations, etc. And ram is always near 100% with heavy use on page/swap file. But its the perfect size for what VNs work with 32 bit and the battery, despite being 10 years old, still gives me over 6 hours. Oh, and while it doesnt meet the minimum specs at all, IT RUNS DDLC!!! An easy way to bring Monika around on the go in MAS. Albeit notably laggy. Sizable micro SD and a matte screen protector are my friends to make it somewhat relevant. The only real current equivelant to this as a windows tablet comvertable is probably a surface go, which is way out of my price range and has just as bad, if not worse reviews to justify replacing it yet. That all said? It is woefully slow once you try to browse the web. Also, while it turns on surprisingly fast, opening programs and games are also worthy of playing the Jeopardy theme in your head as nothing happens for 20 seconds.

Also Nvidia gpu drivers seem to actually harm cpu performance on older systems. Radeon gpus perform much better due to the much smaller driver overhead. And well Radeon gpus support Mac OS too

Bought my 2008 in early 2008 and it still performs flawlessly for what I use it for in 2024!

this is a good in depth video for the machine i just purchased. nice work!

Awesome video

Links 2 browser will give you access to most of the web whilst still be "fast", even on ancient hardware. You will have to get used to everything being justified left, and figure out what links are working, and which don't. Just sayin'. Also try Arctic Fox....lighterweight than Tenfourfox, or InterwebPPC.

What gpu do you all recommend for quad cores? I’m currently buying Q9550.

The G3 isn't ideal for 2000s gaming but it's a perfect computer for running 68k software. I recommend installing an SSD, max out the ram and memory put in a Noctua fan, and you'll be BALLING like it's 1998.

what linux distro you advice for Q6600? I try Rocky9 / Debian 12.4 but there are some problem with storage partition

I have a 17r4 This old laptop is Window 10 Pro I7-7820HK @2.90Ghz 32GB Ram GTX1080 8gb vram 2560x1440 (120hz) gsync (matte) 256gb ssd from factory 1tb disk drive I think. And I put in a 1tb 2230 ssd Hoping AMA or egpu to increase some life. In thinking the AMA remove top shell and get a plexi cover or something 3d printed taller.

Pretty sure, even a i3 gen4 would be the same price, but better..

Dude very good video for real. I've been needing to upgrade forever and snagged an msi, ur def very reassuring on the choice I made. U have a good tone/voice for tv/radio/sales. This is very diff to see in a hardware channel. Bravo

You want gaming,buy a cheap PC,a Mac is made for work,not gaming..-

How can you play VR with the dedicated gpu? Is their a way? I tried using steam Vr but no luck

Back in the day, we used to think all Macs could play were educational titles like Pajama Sam and Putt Putt, or super solvers... Try American McGee's Alice, Diablo 2, Clive Barker's Undying, SNES9x, Connectix VGS (PS1), Tomb Raider games, starcraft, warcraft, etc.. Despite the iMac's success, I still consider it a marketing disaster because it was mainly advertised to schools and libraries rather than the home user :/ I would have rocked the hell out of an iMac had I owned one. I held onto a 600MHz Pentium 3 until around 2003..

This processor is still not that bad with windows 10 and internet browsing but too slow for gaming.

I remember is having this.l back in the day. The only thing I played on it was Backyard Baseball

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.

How many fps do u get on war zone or red dead redemption 2

would be cool if someone made a website or program that could convert newer sites to work on older computers

I was given a free pc just now with this q6600 in the card is a r9 270 as well

Sure it wasn't the most powerful thing on the market, but it was a full monitor and hardware combined without the need of a tower.

I had one of these. Id bet a device between 11" and 13" (with some thin bezels) a high end 15-25w current gen CPU, and a 120hz display in a tablet paired to a keyboard dock akin to this design would sell well. If the manufacturer were truly daring, they could kill two birds with one stone by adding a battery, a dedicated GPU, an m.2 slot along with some extra ports and an SD card slot (if not on the tablet itself). Something like this may be a touch thicker and heavier than the current crop of 13" ultra-portables but without such things, the device would be top heavy and fall over. If all of this is done through a USB C port in the docking base or via a bidirectional proprietary connector with substantial bandwidth for the GPU and M.2, the tablet could be positioned backward in the dock, allowing for drawing capabilities and, depending on the shape of the tablet portion itself (it'd have to be flat on both the front and back), the ability to be docked/closed with the screen facing outwardly so you wouldn't necessarily need to find a place for the keyboard if you want to use the device as a tablet. The keyboard dock would likely be reasonably thick and weighty, as previously mentioned, so I'd guess there would be room for a stowable pen in the casing of the dock. All of these aspects would be a significant bit more inexpensive to design, from what I can tell. The manner by which manufacturers strive for laptops to be razor thin puts significant emphasis on thermals due to the flattening of ventilation. A lot of these devices teeter between fanless radiator designs and those with fans that push less air than most people do breathing casually. A few more millimeters and spacing between the base and screen would allow for a significant amount more surface area for cooling along with larger and more thermally efficient fans where they can actually pass significant airflow without sounding like a small vaccum cleaner!

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

Played Fallout New Vegas here with many custom settings, but was fun* Minecraft Win10 edition worked nice))

Built a second pc for my racing sim out of some spare parts in 2023. Ryzen 2700x and gtx 980ti and its solid. Enjoying even emulating ps3 games is fine. Ive got an evga kingpin edition and havent even attempted an overclock yet

I just got a 1080 ti for 50$ plus a free gtx 760 and a old custom system with a core 2 duo and a gtx 270. Im thinking after I clean up the old system and install windows i might be able to make my money back.

I've got the 17 R3 with the graphics amplifier... I'm going to follow your lead and upgrade the card to the 2080. BUT- can you share some info on the overclocking? Is there maybe a video on it?

Paid $350 before COV (NOV2019) for the GTX1080Ti and boy it has been a very good card for me. Will soon replace with the RTX2080Ti, locally purchased used with a waterblock (incl. original parts: backplate, frame + fan assembly) for $274. Will sell off the waterblock kit for 40~50 dollars...so net it is about $230 out of pocket. The 1080Ti will replace a 1080 in one of my kid's rigs. Every now and then, a deal arrives on the local used market that is compelling. I am more than happy to buy a nice used card than shell out funds for a new card of equivalent performance. Prices on the new market remain ridiculous, as far as I am concerned.

You sound drunk man

Ill stick with ny 7900gtx

i also have a Ryzen 7 5800X3D paired with a GTX 1080Ti with 32gb of DDR4 ram but at 3200mhz, but i refuse to game higher than 1080p and it still kicks butt

What is the best card i can use with this

Minecraft VR is a thing? I think I can live without that thing. I know regular minecraft kinda sucks but with mods you can get it up to 180fps on this card. I am still using it today.

Hello, i cant install alienware fx because its not compatible, how can i fix it :(

This doc is no longer available? Where can I find one