Your father still uses it or he did back then? My friend bought the Q6600 back in the day while I choose the E6550 which I could overclock higher and since games then didn’t use 4 cores my CPU was faster and cheaper. We were 20 years old back then, feel like ages ago, impressive that it still runs some games. Back in 2007 a 15 year old CPU would have been an Intel 486 33mhz or something like that and wouldn’t even been able to handle Windows XP let alone Windows Vista or 7 or play games. CPUs become obsolete much faster back then. I used to upgrade every couple of years and get huge performance improvements.
Had this CPU back in 2007, it was beast and had so much room for overclocking. This was the go to CPU for everyone’s build even more than the 5800x3d or 7800x3d is now.
I've bought one in 2008 for less than 200 euro. The g0 version which was really good in OC. Just by oc ing the bus I overclocked it to 3 ghz with no problems. But back then you didn't need that for gaming so i've mostly used it on 2.4 ghz
@@burrfoottopknot Most of important of all... good cpu's coming down in price after a year or so. Now even after 5 years even second hand cpu's are way to expensive.
Q6600's main advantage was overclocking. At it's time, all the dual cores had much higher per core performance but when multicore threading became a thing, Q6600 began to fare far better with overclocking and left them all in the back. I personally ran mine at 3,2-3,4ghz overclock and paired with an 750ti and then 1050ti, It did a very good job at running all the modern titles in 720p; 1080p was doable as well, although to get stable 60fps a bit of sacrificing was required. I did swap later to 1080p and mid or mid/low settings managed to run almost anything I threw at it with stable 60 frames paired with 1050ti. All in all, along with the LGA775 platform - I consider it one of the best CPU's in history. They had a bit of a rough start but with advancing tech and programming they became pure gold, even years after their release.
there was no need at the time. 4 cores was already pushing it. And it would have had no effect on gaming at the time. companies don't really make products for aging better 15 years down the line Plus, core 2 quads were already expensive enough anyway when they launched
Core 2 CPUs were just modified Pentium 3 mobile CPUs, so HT was incompatible with Core 2 CPUs. Intel needed a new architecture if they wanted HT back without using the Netburst architecture, and that’s where Nehalem came in.
H/T would sometimes turn the P4 into hot garbage to the point it ended up with a bad rep. When Intel released the Pentium D dual cores, they made sure to disable H/T. Then Intel marketed the Core 2 series as being so powerful that it didn't need Hyperthreading..... then reversed course with Nehalem while saying they had cleaned H/T up.
Wasnt HT on the P4 only a thing because of the insanely long execution pipeline and in not too few cases resulted in mediocre results depending on the code? At any rate, it wasnt anything like HT on later CPUs with actual parallel executing pipelines.
@VERY EVIL PERSON FROM ILLUMINATI that was specifically the LGA 771 chips. Pretty sure the QX9775 was the only one to work on one of those dual socket boards.
There were 2 versions of the Core 2 Quad 6600, the 95 Watt and the 105 Watt version - The latter supported VT-x (virtualization software ran much faster and securely on the 105 Watt ver). But was replaced by the 95 Watt version a few months later so it did not compete with the Q6700. Also each L2 cache is shared between 2 cores, so 8MB cache really is not a full 8MB of cache as it is divided
@@burrfoottopknot I have Q6600 G0 (95w) and it has VT-x. What it lacks is SSE4.1. With a stock heatsink 3GHz is easily achieved and with a mid-range heatsink 3.4GHz. Everything 100% stable. The difference in performance between the C2Q is basically made by the frequency. Compared to a QX9650 at the same frequency, according to my benchmarks, this one only beats it by +-1%.
This CPU really deserves an OC to 3 to 4GHz and run on W7 where it really belongs. But it is a real shame that it doesn't support SSE4.1 to test newer titles. That said, hope you can test a Q9xxx for a future video.
Yes! I was waiting this.I am so attached to this CPU,it was my upgrade coming from a 1-Core Pentium of a 2002 PC that I mostly had for really basic stuff until I changed my mind and got a new PC to start playing some games on it. Curious to see the overclocked experience :) if anybody has this CPU I absolutely suggest trying the overclock with tape (if your PSU and motherboard can run it),you will go from 2.4Ghz to 3Ghz and the fps will increase quite a bit.
Absolutely love your Video! Didn't know the Q6600 could handle GTA V and Rust quite well. I'd like to see you make a video on the Intel i3 530 (Duo Core, 3.0 Ghz) which was the first i3 cpu to be ever released and I still have that as a Secondary Cpu but would like to see how different games run on this 10 year+ old cpu
I remember having a dual core CPU at that time (upgrading from a Celeron CPU thinking WOW) and my friend having the core 2 quad. I always thought, man you have double my cores your computer must be extremely fast!
Watching this on an old HP Media Center that originally had a q6600! Since I had one laying around I installed a Q9500 in it and it works just fine. Still capable today, with some quirks in windows running natively on a 4K tv lol Picked up a GT 1030 for $30 CAD a few weeks back and its the perfect bottleneck combo!
it just changes the fsb to 333 (up from 266), so while it does work a person can also just change the fsb in their bios and get better results. The taping over a pin "hack" is mostly useful for oem machines with limited bioses (although things like setfsb can also get around that).
I have a Q9550 with a r9 280x! Is performing perfectly! Microsoft flight simulator, Red dead Redemption 2, F1 2021, GTA V in ultra, etc… For the age that the processor has, and his price… is outstanding!
That's insane, had you mod your Q9550? If yes , how high did the clock speed get? Has there diff with the volt? Hb the temp? I'm planning on modding my q9550 also
Hi! No mods were! No overclocking whatsoever( I don’t understand enough… and I don’t what it to push). I suffer from small fps drops in f1 and red dead(very rare) and some rare big drops in Microsoft’s flight simulator. It’s the price you have to pay… that are the only problems ,without that, it works perfectly! If game developers put effort in game optimization and with a little bit of overclocking, these games would run sooooomth!
Good video. If you are running a Q6600 rig today and have an OEM motherboard then overclock it to 3ghz with a Bsel mod, all it takes is a tiny piece of electrical tape. No voltage increase required.
For me its a legendary cpu and back in the day it costed a kidney :P . Also overclocking this cpu helps A LOT like you can get double the performance if it goes 3.5 ghz + but even 3 ghz makes big difference.! Even modern cpus could not get excellent performance at 2.4 ghz underclock , its really a low clock speed.
Tenho os duo e7500 e e7400, quad q8400, pentium dual e2200, outros 2 pentiums dual core que não lembro o nome, de 1.8 e 1.6ghz, um celeron single core de 3.06ghz, e 2 notebooks com core 2 duo t6600 e t6500. Todos os dual e quad cores são bem rápidos para uso leve.
Impressionante o avanço que tivemos naquela época dos dual core e core 2 quad. Uma cpu de 2007 consegue "rodar" alguns jogos atuais em 2022. se você voltasse no tempo, no ano de 2007 e tentasse rodar algum jogo daquele tempo com uma cpu de 15 anos antes, 1992 no caso. Ela não iria servir nem pra instalar o Windows 95, o que dirá rodar algum jogo de 2007.
Everybody is talking about how good this cpu was back in the day But no one realized the legendary joke he was about to say at 8:07 but he didn't bec of TH-cam 😂
I still own the exact cpu and motherboard .The motherboard was a beast back in the day and it came with a labeled ROG audio card by Creative .Last title i played on it was Metro:Last Light with a gtx 260 at 800x600 i think 🤣or 720p don't remember .
@@ivandksd it was way ahead of it's time as most people used it on pentium 4 systems. It ran great especially with sp2 and quad core systems with 4gb ram+. For IT, vista/server 2008 brought tons of new features that is still used today like UAC, HYPERV, a whole rewrite of the network stack / WinHTTP.sys and lots of active directory features
@@ivandksd LOL, well at least I didn't have much problems with Windows Vista even when I used it for the first time back in April of 2007. I actually remember when I built my first gaming PC in early 2001 with a 1 GHZ Pentium III cpu, this was before Windows XP was released, so at that time, I could say that Windows ME was the latest and greatest operating system in early 2001.
@@excess.subiefl0w True that, I'm sure back in 2007, if you ran Windows Vista on a PC with a Core 2 Quad CPU and a GPU with at least 512 mb of Vram and 2 to 4 gb of system ram, then most likely Windows Vista would have ran like a champ. At the time, I had a Core 2 Duo 2.13 ghz with 2 gb of ram and a 512 mb Geforce 7600gs and I did'nt have any issue with running Windows Vista Home Premium on it. Most likely the people who had problems with Vista most likely ran it on single core CPUs with maybe 512 mb to 1 gb of ram and integrated graphics and that most likely wasn't enough to handle Vista well although it may have ran XP well.
I remember having one of these on a p43 board back in 2009-2013. Had it clocked to 3.24ghz with 8gb ddr3 1440 c7-8-7-21. Started showing its age around 2012. I remember thinking it was pretty capable until I upgraded to an i5 3330 in 2013.
This kind of systems started to show their age when newer systems didn't encountered slowdown because of front side bus as more and more function were implemented directly inside CPU since Nehalem and PCIe got faster to at least reducing the number of problem related to bandwidth. In addition to the release of newer instructions (AVX.. etc).
@@Vanillaflavouredcheese I have a soft spot for the 1st gen i7s. I have an i7 870 here and 4x2gb Geil Evo which runs 1600 c6-7-6-18. For nostalgia reasons I'm trying to find a half way decent p55 board to mate with them.
I had the exact same cpu paired with a GTX 260, got the PC from my sister in 2012 and used the whole configuration up to 2017 where I finally got some money to buy a modern and decent PC
One of the best CPUs ever! Was my daily driver once. Still great today! CORE 2 QUAD(DUO) WILL NEVER DIE! Use DDR3 with these to run Rust. Overclock it and it will go!
@@CollynPlayz yes it did, as it had a northbridge based design it had DDR, DDR2 and DDR3 support, and maybe it is possible to make a northbridge supporting DDR4, lmfao, check out the DDR3 based LGA 775 Asus P5P43TD-Pro a motherboard I own.
I also have this CPU on my Retro PC Syste. It was a great CPu back in 2007/ 2008. Is the Q8200 better than Q6600. I guess Q6600 is better but Q8300 is faster than Q6600
I ran gta V with this CPU for ages and it is totally fine. You just have to set CPU priority to 'very high' each time on launch in task manager. 'Realtime' priority caused issues but with 'very high' it ran like a dream.
I very much admire channels like yours. Sure its cool to see what the latest and greatest PC hardware is capable of, but Its meaningful to more people to see what older hardware can still do. Could make someone still on an older computer reconsider whether they need to rush out and buy a new one just to get gaming with their friends. Or those in the worst of cases could find a cheap PC on ebay, or other second hand markets, and with some research throw together a decently capable budget rig. I've used a similar performing amd phenom 9650 quad core cpu, for 4 years tho it underperforms the q6600 by a bit. Put a gt610 in it and I was able to play minecraft with playable fps, and surprisingly good fps with optifine and low settings. Keep it up :D
I remember when these were first released and were some of the most sought after CPU's. It was the CPU I dreamed of being able to have lol. Now, of course, they are a little bit cheaper, but still can be tricky to find. That said, probably not worth finding except for retro gaming now
I bought an entire dell desktop setup (tower, monitor, speakers, keyboard and mouse) for $80 bucks on Craigslist about six months ago. 22" monitor , Q9400 cpu, 8GB 1333mhz ram and a 750GB hdd. Put linux mint on it and installed a radeon HD 7770 I had on a shelf. It's my actual personal PC. The one I keep my important documents on and file taxes with. It's a rock solid and cheap pc.
I had a Q6600 in an old office pc that we barely use once every 5-6 months but until a few months ago I was still occasionally using a modded Xeon X5460 (3.16Ghz ,12mb cache), 8GB of RAM, with an HD7850 2GB. I had easily reached 3.6Ghz but suddenly one day the ASUS motherboard died. If I find a cheap but decent enough S775 motherboard I might try to revive that system because it was still fine for occasional use. Actually at some point I had even used to for some of the online classes I was giving and it did the job fine without any problems. I am really looking forward to the OCed video on the Q6600
That Core 2 Quad runs circles around my 5th gen Core i5 laptop. The Core i5 consumes 35W, yet it can't reach 60 FPS in Minecraft. One of the worst laptop CPUs ever made.
My wife runs our axolotl twitch stream on a pc that is using a q6700 and the motherboard uses ddr3. They're super old cpus but those core 2 quads can perform surprisingly well in some scenarios.
I don't know what mobo you used for this CPU, but in case you used a pre-built like a Dell or HP, you can still overclock this to 3.0ghz which should give you a good boost using the "BSEL" tape hack. I had this in a Dell XPS 720 tower with the BSEL hack, and it served me well playing Battlefield Bad Company 2 16 years ago.
Never had a Q6600, but did both the Q9650 & Q9550, as well as Q9400, the 1st two runs Windows 10 Pro 22H2 x64 decently. The Q9400 is restricted a bit more, Windows 8.1 install would crash the BIOS, so may not ran Win 10. Still ran Windows 7 Ultimate though & fast at that on a HP SFF 5800 (believe the right model). Although a quad CPU, the Q9400 doesn't have 12MB L2 cache, rather 6MB & may be the difference. Released 2 years before Win 7, a decent option, as long as one had the max of DDR2 RAM sticks. On the other hand, the Q9650-9550, these will run 16GB RAM & with a card that draws it's power out of the GPU slot, isn't bad. Q9650 is overclockable & would give many 1st gen Intel Core CPU's a run for it's money, as it was a $300 (or so) model. The Q9550 was almost as fast for much lower price.🤣🤣 I used to pick up Dell & HP OEM machines on recycle collection days & would piece together 3 PC's out of 5, if lucky!💪These, I'd sell for a fair price, and have upgrade cash for my own PC's & laptop. How I bought my 1st SSD!!!💯💯💯
Note hyper-threading was a thing before this time. I had a Pentium 4 HT 3.06 CPU with Hyper-threading (upgrade I made on an old Dell Dimension 2400). I don't know why Intel and AMD ignored Hyper-Threading for a while when they started pushing multi-core CPUs. Note your Core 2 Quad is actually two Core 2 Duo CPUs on the same die. That's why they needed so much power for the performance- it's actually two whole CPUs even though it's on one socket.
I was obsessed with trying to make as fasst as possible a core2 based system a little while back for some WinXP era gaming. Ended up with a q9650 overclocked to 4.3ghz with a p41 chipset mobo (ie. ddr3 ram) with ddr3@2133. It's pretty overkill for the games I play with it, but it was fun putting it together and putting it through it's paces. Anything from the ps3 and xbox360 era runs great at higher framerates and resolutions than those consoles could ever dream of running. I like to have systems to cover my bases for any era of computing and love buying the stuff I dreamed of having back when things were new. Love the hobby, but seeing as Ive been using computers since the late 70's (before x86 even existed) it means my computer collection takes up waaay more room than I'd like :)
Nice. My son's first build! Got him second hand q6600 and then a 7870 for it. Seems to be struggling. Thankfully we sold it on for a profit to a nightclub for video fx!
You should try the AMD phenom 2 X6 1145T. 6 cores six threads and the processor you are showing it did have hyper threading but only a certain motherboards would even allow it in the first place which was not many at all about three
65nm, hard to believe with all the 7, 11, and 14nm today. My laptop from 2009 had a 45nm Core2 Duo P7450 paired with 4GB of RAM and a Geforce 9600m GT with 512mb of GDDR2 RAM. It wasn't perfect, but I used that laptop to play L4D1/2, WoW, Batman Arkham Asylum, and Mass Effect 1/2 (2 actually ran much better than 1). It was never a perfect computer, but it really served me well for a long time.
@@jayy499 But the platform and IPC was a massive uplift...the Core 2 Quad struggled to play 1080p 60fps youtube videos while the i5 7600 could easily play 4k 60fps youtube video and playback was buttery smooth.
I remember when I played GTA V on Q6600 and GTX 580. Fortunately I had a motherboard that supports DDR3 up to 1333MHz. In addition Q6600 runs on FSB 240 and you can easily overclock it to 3GHz by simply increasing FSB to 300, without touching voltage or anything else.
Used to run q9400 with hd 7470 until 2021. I played genshin impact with average 50fps on medium settings. What a beast for old CPU. Now I'm using i7-11800h run everything smoothly
The problem with cyberpunk is the lack of sse 4.2. There's a patch for it to work, and I've seen reports of it being playable on later models of core 2 quad at 30fps, but I don't know about the q6600, as it also lacks sse 4.1 and is weaker.
I have Core 2 Quad Q9650 overclocked to 4.1 Ghz with 8 GB 1066 Mhz CL5 RAM and GTX 680 and it's running pretty good for it's age. Now it has GTX 1060 6 GB and runs even better but GPU usage with 1060 is 70-90% so CPU is not powerful enough.
17:46 .... About the ram, you cannot use 4gb ddr2 stick on intel, it was an AMD only upgrade option and that's why its super hard to find 4gb ddr2 modules.
Pretty good cpu for it's time, for battlefield 3 i used a phenom II x4 955 & a hd 5770 with 8 gb ram ca 2011 - 2012 i believe, then upgraded too a hd 6870. And depending on the motherboard you can do the Bsel tape mod too get 3.0 ghz out of the q6600 even on a dell or hp motherboard if that computer in particular supports 1333 fsb which is a cheap performance uplift thats free, feel free too try the bsel tape mod, it's super simple too do.
Running a QX9650 in my retro gaming PC I built in January 2022 (see my video) and honestly I'm so surprised, it's fantastic. Also I've just ordered a Q8400S CPU to upgrade my (PSU restricted) media PC.. Long live the Core2Quad!
At this moment, i'm using this Q6600 with GTX 650 2GB and 4Go DDR2 on the MSI MS-7529 board. O/C @3.06Ghz and DDR2 667 @ 850Mhz (Tried at 1022Mhz but got random BSOD on heavy load... Not possible to change voltages on the mobo). Still a great rig for older games!
i'm using this CPU right now, running Windows 10, 8gb DDR2 Ram, AMD Radeon HD5800, generic 500gb SSD etc It's absolutely fine for most tasks and can play older steam games no problem. I would like an upgrade but rarely use my PC to be honest. I game on consoles instead.
Cracking old CPU. Great tests again, but I'm not surprised how it struggles big time with Witcher 3. And I love how you put "Cybercrash 2077" in the timestamps LOL. Almost as funny as the usual "Cyberbug" 😆😅
glad to see my father's cpu still kind of alive and a little capable
I'm still using a Q9650. It's pretty capable, but its starting to show its age.
Your father still uses it or he did back then? My friend bought the Q6600 back in the day while I choose the E6550 which I could overclock higher and since games then didn’t use 4 cores my CPU was faster and cheaper. We were 20 years old back then, feel like ages ago, impressive that it still runs some games. Back in 2007 a 15 year old CPU would have been an Intel 486 33mhz or something like that and wouldn’t even been able to handle Windows XP let alone Windows Vista or 7 or play games. CPUs become obsolete much faster back then. I used to upgrade every couple of years and get huge performance improvements.
@@Lostcontroller Fair play to you, i retired my q6600 in 2013 when i upgraded to core i7 4770 which is the cpu i will probably use for 1 more year.
q6600 taught me the component you should invest the most money in is the CPU. A good CPU should be able to carry you through 2 or 3 GPU upgrades.
My dad was using this CPU as well witn an SSD until i lend my R7 2700 and finally made him switch to AMD again, also now has my 1060 6gb.
Had this CPU back in 2007, it was beast and had so much room for overclocking. This was the go to CPU for everyone’s build even more than the 5800x3d or 7800x3d is now.
@@exxxz1999yes and no way to many people still use Intel for that to be the case
But team fortress… /
Rumours says that if AMD never existed we’d still be in quad core era
and on 14nm +++++++++++++++ version 90.0
@@burrfoottopknotwell said. 👍😆😀🤩🤣 love from India.
true sir.
????? The i7 5820k is six core cpu is much old to the ryzen 1000
@@enginex99 Tell that to an i7 970 980x or even 990x 😂 all like over 11 years old
I've bought one in 2008 for less than 200 euro. The g0 version which was really good in OC. Just by oc ing the bus I overclocked it to 3 ghz with no problems. But back then you didn't need that for gaming so i've mostly used it on 2.4 ghz
yeah that revision / stepping was the best, those days are long gone when you could OC a CPU by 600MHz or more on a stock system sadly
@@burrfoottopknot Most of important of all... good cpu's coming down in price after a year or so. Now even after 5 years even second hand cpu's are way to expensive.
Q6600's main advantage was overclocking. At it's time, all the dual cores had much higher per core performance but when multicore threading became a thing, Q6600 began to fare far better with overclocking and left them all in the back. I personally ran mine at 3,2-3,4ghz overclock and paired with an 750ti and then 1050ti, It did a very good job at running all the modern titles in 720p; 1080p was doable as well, although to get stable 60fps a bit of sacrificing was required. I did swap later to 1080p and mid or mid/low settings managed to run almost anything I threw at it with stable 60 frames paired with 1050ti.
All in all, along with the LGA775 platform - I consider it one of the best CPU's in history. They had a bit of a rough start but with advancing tech and programming they became pure gold, even years after their release.
naw i only got up to 3.6ghz, was aiming for 4ghz, but i could only get 4ghz on my e8400 core 2 duo.. which performed way better than the q6600
@@dnsean03 In games that only used 2 cores then yeah but everything else no lol
@zk0rned but we are taking about years ago, im still using my 10900k for now.. after some debt is paid will upgrade maybe next year
@@piranhax6466 yes I kept that in mind when I made my comment
Core 2 Quads were nothing more than two Core 2 Duos stuck together on the same package.
Would love to see you post a follow up video about this cpu and overclocking it!
With a Q9650 Ocked at 3.5-3.6 you would see a lot of improvements! It's still a really good old QC CPU
Hyperthreading was a thing, in fact the Pentium 4 had HT before this CPU came out. Not sure why they couldn’t put HT on C2D and C2Q CPUs though.
there was no need at the time. 4 cores was already pushing it. And it would have had no effect on gaming at the time.
companies don't really make products for aging better 15 years down the line
Plus, core 2 quads were already expensive enough anyway when they launched
Core 2 CPUs were just modified Pentium 3 mobile CPUs, so HT was incompatible with Core 2 CPUs. Intel needed a new architecture if they wanted HT back without using the Netburst architecture, and that’s where Nehalem came in.
Yes and no the ht on the p4 was a horrid version of it so in turn it's like it didn't have it
H/T would sometimes turn the P4 into hot garbage to the point it ended up with a bad rep. When Intel released the Pentium D dual cores, they made sure to disable H/T. Then Intel marketed the Core 2 series as being so powerful that it didn't need Hyperthreading..... then reversed course with Nehalem while saying they had cleaned H/T up.
Wasnt HT on the P4 only a thing because of the insanely long execution pipeline and in not too few cases resulted in mediocre results depending on the code? At any rate, it wasnt anything like HT on later CPUs with actual parallel executing pipelines.
This was like a 5900X today, and they also had a 5950X comparable, the "Core 2 Quad Extreme", was basically a Core2Quad with a little more clock...
I am still rocking Q9650 3Ghz 12MB Cache
With GTX 750 2gb and I'm able to play almost every game that can be run on DX 11.1 native
@VERY EVIL PERSON FROM ILLUMINATI that was specifically the LGA 771 chips. Pretty sure the QX9775 was the only one to work on one of those dual socket boards.
There were 2 versions of the Core 2 Quad 6600, the 95 Watt and the 105 Watt version - The latter supported VT-x (virtualization software ran much faster and securely on the 105 Watt ver). But was replaced by the 95 Watt version a few months later so it did not compete with the Q6700. Also each L2 cache is shared between 2 cores, so 8MB cache really is not a full 8MB of cache as it is divided
@@burrfoottopknot I have Q6600 G0 (95w) and it has VT-x. What it lacks is SSE4.1. With a stock heatsink 3GHz is easily achieved and with a mid-range heatsink 3.4GHz. Everything 100% stable.
The difference in performance between the C2Q is basically made by the frequency. Compared to a QX9650 at the same frequency, according to my benchmarks, this one only beats it by +-1%.
This CPU really deserves an OC to 3 to 4GHz and run on W7 where it really belongs. But it is a real shame that it doesn't support SSE4.1 to test newer titles. That said, hope you can test a Q9xxx for a future video.
Love these vids. always fun to see those old parts being used again, shows just how capable budget builds can be
Yes! I was waiting this.I am so attached to this CPU,it was my upgrade coming from a 1-Core Pentium of a 2002 PC that I mostly had for really basic stuff until I changed my mind and got a new PC to start playing some games on it.
Curious to see the overclocked experience :) if anybody has this CPU I absolutely suggest trying the overclock with tape (if your PSU and motherboard can run it),you will go from 2.4Ghz to 3Ghz and the fps will increase quite a bit.
Can't wait to see how the QX goes in a later video!
This thing was crazy back in the day, the idea of four cpus in a single cpu was just mindblowing.
Funny thing is the 8Mb L3 cache was once a whole hard drive size.
Absolutely love your Video! Didn't know the Q6600 could handle GTA V and Rust quite well. I'd like to see you make a video on the Intel i3 530 (Duo Core, 3.0 Ghz) which was the first i3 cpu to be ever released and I still have that as a Secondary Cpu but would like to see how different games run on this 10 year+ old cpu
Always loved when it's Valorant turn to be tested and see this man hit those heads satisfyingly, gotta wonder if he plays competetively.
He used to play csgo competitively but not valorant
@@mxmobile5619 prob bc he doesn’t wanna ruin all those little kids lives and egos by shitting on them with his skill
pov weakest csgo player playing valorant
it hurts seeing valorant played with potato pc
21:05 Oh man, I'm waiting then! Please do test that QX9770. That will be interesting. What MOBO and RAM will you pair it with DDR2 or DDR3?
Now you have to bring us the king of dualcores (775), the e8400, a legendary beast :D
Pls test i5 3470
Тогда уж лучше 8600 на ддр3).
I'm reading your comment while rocking an E8500 right now
8:05 indeed that sounded like something else🤣🤣
Q6600 is my favorite cpu, used it from 2008 to 2019~, so glad to see if you overclock it)
I remember having a dual core CPU at that time (upgrading from a Celeron CPU thinking WOW) and my friend having the core 2 quad. I always thought, man you have double my cores your computer must be extremely fast!
Watching this on an old HP Media Center that originally had a q6600! Since I had one laying around I installed a Q9500 in it and it works just fine. Still capable today, with some quirks in windows running natively on a 4K tv lol Picked up a GT 1030 for $30 CAD a few weeks back and its the perfect bottleneck combo!
If I recall correctly, there's a Duct Tape Hack that you can do to that CPU to improve performance.
I used electrical tape and yes it works
it just changes the fsb to 333 (up from 266), so while it does work a person can also just change the fsb in their bios and get better results.
The taping over a pin "hack" is mostly useful for oem machines with limited bioses (although things like setfsb can also get around that).
He should definitively try a core2quad qx9650 with rtx 3090ti. This combination is fire.🔥🥵
I have a Q9550 with a r9 280x! Is performing perfectly! Microsoft flight simulator, Red dead Redemption 2, F1 2021, GTA V in ultra, etc… For the age that the processor has, and his price… is outstanding!
That's insane, had you mod your Q9550? If yes , how high did the clock speed get? Has there diff with the volt? Hb the temp? I'm planning on modding my q9550 also
Hi! No mods were! No overclocking whatsoever( I don’t understand enough… and I don’t what it to push). I suffer from small fps drops in f1 and red dead(very rare) and some rare big drops in Microsoft’s flight simulator. It’s the price you have to pay… that are the only problems ,without that, it works perfectly! If game developers put effort in game optimization and with a little bit of overclocking, these games would run sooooomth!
Good video. If you are running a Q6600 rig today and have an OEM motherboard then overclock it to 3ghz with a Bsel mod, all it takes is a tiny piece of electrical tape. No voltage increase required.
yes this stock cpu, oc gives 25% more
For me its a legendary cpu and back in the day it costed a kidney :P . Also overclocking this cpu helps A LOT like you can get double the performance if it goes 3.5 ghz + but even 3 ghz makes big difference.! Even modern cpus could not get excellent performance at 2.4 ghz underclock , its really a low clock speed.
Eu tenho uma pequena coleção desses processadores, Core 2 Quad Q8400, Pentium E5800, Core 2 Duo E8500, Core 2 Quad Q9550.
Tenho os duo e7500 e e7400, quad q8400, pentium dual e2200, outros 2 pentiums dual core que não lembro o nome, de 1.8 e 1.6ghz, um celeron single core de 3.06ghz, e 2 notebooks com core 2 duo t6600 e t6500.
Todos os dual e quad cores são bem rápidos para uso leve.
У меня был E3300 в моем первом компьютере, он был очень плох
Impressionante o avanço que tivemos naquela época dos dual core e core 2 quad.
Uma cpu de 2007 consegue "rodar" alguns jogos atuais em 2022.
se você voltasse no tempo, no ano de 2007 e tentasse rodar algum jogo daquele tempo com uma cpu de 15 anos antes, 1992 no caso.
Ela não iria servir nem pra instalar o Windows 95, o que dirá rodar algum jogo de 2007.
eu tenho o core 2 quad q8200 pentium e6500 celeron e4300 e celeron e3300
Eu tenho um Pentium D, Pentium dual Core e5700, core 2 quad q9550 e Core 2 quad q6600.
You have to remember the most popular phone when this thing came out was like a Moto Razor. The original. This CPU overclocks easy to 3.0 Ghz.
Everybody is talking about how good this cpu was back in the day
But no one realized the legendary joke he was about to say at 8:07 but he didn't bec of TH-cam 😂
I still own the exact cpu and motherboard .The motherboard was a beast back in the day and it came with a labeled ROG audio card by Creative .Last title i played on it was Metro:Last Light with a gtx 260 at 800x600 i think 🤣or 720p don't remember .
I used to have a Q8300 back then, and I remember having it with a Radeon HD 6870. Ran Last Light pretty good at medium 1920x1200
I remember when this CPU was top of the line in the early days when Windows Vista was the latest and greatest operating system.
Windows vista was the greatest operating system?! From which weird alternate universe you came from? Lol
@@ivandksd it was way ahead of it's time as most people used it on pentium 4 systems. It ran great especially with sp2 and quad core systems with 4gb ram+. For IT, vista/server 2008 brought tons of new features that is still used today like UAC, HYPERV, a whole rewrite of the network stack / WinHTTP.sys and lots of active directory features
@@ivandksd LOL, well at least I didn't have much problems with Windows Vista even when I used it for the first time back in April of 2007. I actually remember when I built my first gaming PC in early 2001 with a 1 GHZ Pentium III cpu, this was before Windows XP was released, so at that time, I could say that Windows ME was the latest and greatest operating system in early 2001.
@@sburton015 well said sir.👍😊
@@excess.subiefl0w True that, I'm sure back in 2007, if you ran Windows Vista on a PC with a Core 2 Quad CPU and a GPU with at least 512 mb of Vram and 2 to 4 gb of system ram, then most likely Windows Vista would have ran like a champ. At the time, I had a Core 2 Duo 2.13 ghz with 2 gb of ram and a 512 mb Geforce 7600gs and I did'nt have any issue with running Windows Vista Home Premium on it. Most likely the people who had problems with Vista most likely ran it on single core CPUs with maybe 512 mb to 1 gb of ram and integrated graphics and that most likely wasn't enough to handle Vista well although it may have ran XP well.
I remember having one of these on a p43 board back in 2009-2013. Had it clocked to 3.24ghz with 8gb ddr3 1440 c7-8-7-21. Started showing its age around 2012.
I remember thinking it was pretty capable until I upgraded to an i5 3330 in 2013.
This kind of systems started to show their age when newer systems didn't encountered slowdown because of front side bus as more and more function were implemented directly inside CPU since Nehalem and PCIe got faster to at least reducing the number of problem related to bandwidth.
In addition to the release of newer instructions (AVX.. etc).
I still use 2nd generation i5 and first generation i5 and i7
@@Vanillaflavouredcheese I have a soft spot for the 1st gen i7s. I have an i7 870 here and 4x2gb Geil Evo which runs 1600 c6-7-6-18. For nostalgia reasons I'm trying to find a half way decent p55 board to mate with them.
I had a Q6600 for years, it really was a beast. I think i used it for something like 7 years until i got a 6700k.
i built E8400 system in 2oO9-2O1o, it aged faster than a milk, started to build 4930K system in 2o14
I used to have it, upgraded only because it didn't supported new instructions sets, it was powerful enough for me.
On the minecraft part, you disabled settings on the "performace" tab that actually made the game run smoother
Still, good video kryzp
Glad you'll be overclocking in a future video, it's almost a must if you're going to try to use this CPU with newer games.
Looking forward for the Core 2 quad oc video ❤️😘
I had the exact same cpu paired with a GTX 260, got the PC from my sister in 2012 and used the whole configuration up to 2017 where I finally got some money to buy a modern and decent PC
One of the best CPUs ever! Was my daily driver once. Still great today! CORE 2 QUAD(DUO) WILL NEVER DIE! Use DDR3 with these to run Rust. Overclock it and it will go!
the core 2 series supported ddr3??
@@CollynPlayz yes it did, as it had a northbridge based design it had DDR, DDR2 and DDR3 support, and maybe it is possible to make a northbridge supporting DDR4, lmfao, check out the DDR3 based LGA 775 Asus P5P43TD-Pro a motherboard I own.
@@CollynPlayz Late reply, but yeah there were some motherboards with DDR3 with Socket 775
@@svgaming234 that’s cool lol maybe one day I’ll look for one to get
My dream cpu growing up. Still haven't actually had one sadly. Think maybe I should do a retro build and play fear again.
I also have this CPU on my Retro PC Syste. It was a great CPu back in 2007/ 2008.
Is the Q8200 better than Q6600. I guess Q6600 is better but Q8300 is faster than Q6600
I would like to see you test some GPUs in Escape from Tarkov, it is getting pretty popular sooo..
I ran gta V with this CPU for ages and it is totally fine. You just have to set CPU priority to 'very high' each time on launch in task manager. 'Realtime' priority caused issues but with 'very high' it ran like a dream.
Still have my q6600 I got from my uncle years ago. Kept me entertained till 2018 now with my sis but it's on life support now.
I still have one of these Q6600's laying around, along with it's motherboard and DDR2 memory!
I very much admire channels like yours. Sure its cool to see what the latest and greatest PC hardware is capable of, but Its meaningful to more people to see what older hardware can still do. Could make someone still on an older computer reconsider whether they need to rush out and buy a new one just to get gaming with their friends. Or those in the worst of cases could find a cheap PC on ebay, or other second hand markets, and with some research throw together a decently capable budget rig. I've used a similar performing amd phenom 9650 quad core cpu, for 4 years tho it underperforms the q6600 by a bit. Put a gt610 in it and I was able to play minecraft with playable fps, and surprisingly good fps with optifine and low settings. Keep it up :D
The Q6600 is a legendary cpu.
23:47 "This is beautiful...i love it...i love Battlefield 3...i wish this was the default battlefield game for everybody"
oh boy....i am going to cry.
I remember when these were first released and were some of the most sought after CPU's. It was the CPU I dreamed of being able to have lol.
Now, of course, they are a little bit cheaper, but still can be tricky to find. That said, probably not worth finding except for retro gaming now
Literally no one runs a Q6600 at stock back in the day. You can overclock the cpu in your sleep at 3ghz.
I bought an entire dell desktop setup (tower, monitor, speakers, keyboard and mouse) for $80 bucks on Craigslist about six months ago. 22" monitor , Q9400 cpu, 8GB 1333mhz ram and a 750GB hdd. Put linux mint on it and installed a radeon HD 7770 I had on a shelf. It's my actual personal PC. The one I keep my important documents on and file taxes with. It's a rock solid and cheap pc.
Don't forget about the old good tape god mode 3.00ghz 💪
I had a Q6600 in an old office pc that we barely use once every 5-6 months but until a few months ago I was still occasionally using a modded Xeon X5460 (3.16Ghz ,12mb cache), 8GB of RAM, with an HD7850 2GB. I had easily reached 3.6Ghz but suddenly one day the ASUS motherboard died. If I find a cheap but decent enough S775 motherboard I might try to revive that system because it was still fine for occasional use. Actually at some point I had even used to for some of the online classes I was giving and it did the job fine without any problems.
I am really looking forward to the OCed video on the Q6600
I've been using a VIA C4650 with a GT 1030 while playing CS:GO. I've been seeing FPS ~12-30 at 1080p. The Q6600 thoroughly kicked my CPUs butt.
Can you please test the i5 3470 in 2022 and good work ❤
That Core 2 Quad runs circles around my 5th gen Core i5 laptop.
The Core i5 consumes 35W, yet it can't reach 60 FPS in Minecraft. One of the worst laptop CPUs ever made.
i used a q6600 system until i upgraded to an r5 3600 based system in 2019! i still have all of that pc's parts in their original packaging.
interesting to see what the intel core 2 quad can do in 2022 😂great video as always kryzzp
I Love this Cpu back in the Days Run at 3.3GHz a Furios Thing
My wife runs our axolotl twitch stream on a pc that is using a q6700 and the motherboard uses ddr3. They're super old cpus but those core 2 quads can perform surprisingly well in some scenarios.
Omg another vidro the same day how wonderful
I don't know what mobo you used for this CPU, but in case you used a pre-built like a Dell or HP, you can still overclock this to 3.0ghz which should give you a good boost using the "BSEL" tape hack. I had this in a Dell XPS 720 tower with the BSEL hack, and it served me well playing Battlefield Bad Company 2 16 years ago.
Never had a Q6600, but did both the Q9650 & Q9550, as well as Q9400, the 1st two runs Windows 10 Pro 22H2 x64 decently. The Q9400 is restricted a bit more, Windows 8.1 install would crash the BIOS, so may not ran Win 10. Still ran Windows 7 Ultimate though & fast at that on a HP SFF 5800 (believe the right model). Although a quad CPU, the Q9400 doesn't have 12MB L2 cache, rather 6MB & may be the difference. Released 2 years before Win 7, a decent option, as long as one had the max of DDR2 RAM sticks. On the other hand, the Q9650-9550, these will run 16GB RAM & with a card that draws it's power out of the GPU slot, isn't bad.
Q9650 is overclockable & would give many 1st gen Intel Core CPU's a run for it's money, as it was a $300 (or so) model. The Q9550 was almost as fast for much lower price.🤣🤣
I used to pick up Dell & HP OEM machines on recycle collection days & would piece together 3 PC's out of 5, if lucky!💪These, I'd sell for a fair price, and have upgrade cash for my own PC's & laptop. How I bought my 1st SSD!!!💯💯💯
Do i5 4590 next
A lot of games have some fixes for old cpus, like Spider-Man or Cyberpunk 2077
Note hyper-threading was a thing before this time. I had a Pentium 4 HT 3.06 CPU with Hyper-threading (upgrade I made on an old Dell Dimension 2400). I don't know why Intel and AMD ignored Hyper-Threading for a while when they started pushing multi-core CPUs. Note your Core 2 Quad is actually two Core 2 Duo CPUs on the same die. That's why they needed so much power for the performance- it's actually two whole CPUs even though it's on one socket.
Grandpa? In technology years it's more like great great grandpa lol
I was obsessed with trying to make as fasst as possible a core2 based system a little while back for some WinXP era gaming.
Ended up with a q9650 overclocked to 4.3ghz with a p41 chipset mobo (ie. ddr3 ram) with ddr3@2133.
It's pretty overkill for the games I play with it, but it was fun putting it together and putting it through it's paces. Anything from the ps3 and xbox360 era runs great at higher framerates and resolutions than those consoles could ever dream of running.
I like to have systems to cover my bases for any era of computing and love buying the stuff I dreamed of having back when things were new.
Love the hobby, but seeing as Ive been using computers since the late 70's (before x86 even existed) it means my computer collection takes up waaay more room than I'd like :)
you should try the BSEL mod (tape mod) it is a rewarding simple mod and will make the CPU run at 3Ghz instead of 2.4Ghz...
What about using a bsel mod on this one? Everyone was doing it to get to 3ghz even on basic motherboards, this might help in getting more fps
Nice. My son's first build! Got him second hand q6600 and then a 7870 for it. Seems to be struggling. Thankfully we sold it on for a profit to a nightclub for video fx!
You should try the AMD phenom 2
X6 1145T. 6 cores six threads and the processor you are showing it did have hyper threading but only a certain motherboards would even allow it in the first place which was not many at all about three
I had the SLACR stepping back in the day. Crysis with 2 8800 GTS in sli. Good times !
I remember playing TF2 on my Q6600 (and 9600gso) back in the day....fun times :)
65nm, hard to believe with all the 7, 11, and 14nm today. My laptop from 2009 had a 45nm Core2 Duo P7450 paired with 4GB of RAM and a Geforce 9600m GT with 512mb of GDDR2 RAM. It wasn't perfect, but I used that laptop to play L4D1/2, WoW, Batman Arkham Asylum, and Mass Effect 1/2 (2 actually ran much better than 1).
It was never a perfect computer, but it really served me well for a long time.
I actually used this CPU till 2017 after which i upgraded to a Core i5 7600. The good old days....
Same amount of cores not really an upgrade,:/
@@jayy499 But the platform and IPC was a massive uplift...the Core 2 Quad struggled to play 1080p 60fps youtube videos while the i5 7600 could easily play 4k 60fps youtube video and playback was buttery smooth.
@@subhajitchatterjee9688 Was it or was it all your imagination?
@@jayy499 The difference was very much real...lol
@@subhajitchatterjee9688 still have the 7600?
i would like too see the q6600 with tap mod, there is a trick if you cover 1 pin of the cpu with tap,it will be overclocked to 3ghz
I remember when I played GTA V on Q6600 and GTX 580. Fortunately I had a motherboard that supports DDR3 up to 1333MHz. In addition Q6600 runs on FSB 240 and you can easily overclock it to 3GHz by simply increasing FSB to 300, without touching voltage or anything else.
q6600 uses a 266mhz fsb. Changing it to 300 will give you a 2.7ghz clock. You need to increase it to 333mhz to hit 3ghz (ie. it uses a 9x multiplier).
@@beezle1976 You're right. That was so long ago that I don't remember correctly
I remember I had my Q6600 running stable at 4.1 Ghz. I deff won the silicon lottery back then.
4.1? Jesus!
@@zWORMzGaming yeah 😁🤣
@@zWORMzGaming I still have it. Maybe I'll upload a vid of the OC one day. 4 core locked and stable.
I still own Core 2 Duo E6600 and back in the days 4 core CPU was a dream
Used to run q9400 with hd 7470 until 2021. I played genshin impact with average 50fps on medium settings. What a beast for old CPU. Now I'm using i7-11800h run everything smoothly
The problem with cyberpunk is the lack of sse 4.2.
There's a patch for it to work, and I've seen reports of it being playable on later models of core 2 quad at 30fps, but I don't know about the q6600, as it also lacks sse 4.1 and is weaker.
Yeah, I've seen that it's possible to play it on the 9000 series but not the 6000
@@zWORMzGaming I think it also works on the 8000 series
@@pessoaanonima6345 yes it does :)
Dude i use that cpu and it runs at full grafics in some very large game. HOW TF
bro i'm born in 2007 too, crazy to think that my mom raised my when this cpu launched😂
I bought a q6600 for my optiplex 780, and I remember how amazed I was at the time
I have Core 2 Quad Q9650 overclocked to 4.1 Ghz with 8 GB 1066 Mhz CL5 RAM and GTX 680 and it's running pretty good for it's age. Now it has GTX 1060 6 GB and runs even better but GPU usage with 1060 is 70-90% so CPU is not powerful enough.
17:46 .... About the ram, you cannot use 4gb ddr2 stick on intel, it was an AMD only upgrade option and that's why its super hard to find 4gb ddr2 modules.
I'd love to see a version of this with an i7 3930k or one of the other X79 6-cores - In 10-11 years those things have aged brilliantly
Damn, you hit it right in the head!
I bought that exact CPU for 35€ recently and I'm planning on benchmarking it!
Bought one in fall of 2007 and still use it every day to this day. Though, overclocked to 3.55GHz.
Pretty good cpu for it's time, for battlefield 3 i used a phenom II x4 955 & a hd 5770 with 8 gb ram ca 2011 - 2012 i believe, then upgraded too a hd 6870.
And depending on the motherboard you can do the Bsel tape mod too get 3.0 ghz out of the q6600 even on a dell or hp motherboard if that computer in particular supports 1333 fsb which is a cheap performance uplift thats free, feel free too try the bsel tape mod, it's super simple too do.
Can you do one where you tape mod it to 3 ghz and do a comparison
Running a QX9650 in my retro gaming PC I built in January 2022 (see my video) and honestly I'm so surprised, it's fantastic. Also I've just ordered a Q8400S CPU to upgrade my (PSU restricted) media PC.. Long live the Core2Quad!
i ran a q6600 at 3ghz on a ddr3 board as htpc streaming client for a while and it was pretty snappy compaired to the ddr2 board that it came out
At this moment, i'm using this Q6600 with GTX 650 2GB and 4Go DDR2 on the MSI MS-7529 board. O/C @3.06Ghz and DDR2 667 @ 850Mhz (Tried at 1022Mhz but got random BSOD on heavy load... Not possible to change voltages on the mobo). Still a great rig for older games!
i'm using this CPU right now, running Windows 10, 8gb DDR2 Ram, AMD Radeon HD5800, generic 500gb SSD etc
It's absolutely fine for most tasks and can play older steam games no problem.
I would like an upgrade but rarely use my PC to be honest. I game on consoles instead.
in tf2, ive heard that sometimes higher settings can be better for cpu because it offloads cpu work to the gpu
Cracking old CPU. Great tests again, but I'm not surprised how it struggles big time with Witcher 3.
And I love how you put "Cybercrash 2077" in the timestamps LOL. Almost as funny as the usual "Cyberbug" 😆😅
Thanks for making video with this chip.
this is how i struggle
more of these please tho XD