Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 - The Grandpa of Quad Cores, 15 Years Later!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2024
- Testing the Legendary Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU in 2022! I ran all of the 11 games at stock speeds to see what it's capable of without any tinkering... An overclocking video will come in the near future ;)
⏱ Timestamps ⏱
Intro, Specs, Stuff - 0:00
CSGO - 3:28
Cybercrash 2077 - 5:32
GTA 5 - 5:50
Fortnite - 7:54
Dota 2 - 10:18
Valorant - 11:42
Team Fortress 2 - 14:19
PUBG - 15:36
RUST - 17:11
Minecraft Java - 18:29
The Witcher 3 - 20:03
Battlefield 3 - 22:10
Conclusion - 24:24
🔧 SPECS 🔧
◽️ Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
◾️ Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 6GB - Palit
◾️ RAM - 8GB DDR2 800MHz (4x2GB) Dual Channel
◽️ OS - Windows 10 Pro
◽️ SSD - Kingston A400 480GB
◾️ Motherboard - Asus Maximus II Formula
◾️ PSU - XFX TS 550W
◾️ Case - my room
🎥 Recorded with a capture card and another PC for no FPS loss.
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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
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… /
I had a golden sample of this CPU in my system back in 2009 paired with a GTX 275. Clocked @3.9Ghz it was an awesome CPU in those days and I played everything very smoothly, including Crysis. Great system and great memories.
ah yes back when having a system that can run crysis smooth was a massive flex
Great times indeed. I had this paired with a radeon 4890. I had no idea how good this cpu actually was until I "upgraded" five years later.
I have a similar cpu on my pc to this one the Q9650 paired with a GTX 285. still running to this day
Love these vids. always fun to see those old parts being used again, shows just how capable budget builds can be
Would love to see you post a follow up video about this cpu and overclocking it!
Can't wait to see how the QX goes in a later video!
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
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.
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.
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
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%.
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
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
Looking forward for the Core 2 quad oc video ❤️😘
This thing was crazy back in the day, the idea of four cpus in a single cpu was just mindblowing.
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
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.
8:05 indeed that sounded like something else🤣🤣
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.
Very Nice Bro Keep It Up
Omg another vidro the same day how wonderful
Q6600 is my favorite cpu, used it from 2008 to 2019~, so glad to see if you overclock it)
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.
Thanks for making video with this chip.
this is how i struggle
more of these please tho XD
me: looks at description
description: *case - my room*
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!
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!
your videos always make my day bro
Great video
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
Let's goo cant wait to see jack!
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" 😆😅
Great video.
really good video!
I still have one of these Q6600's laying around, along with it's motherboard and DDR2 memory!
Lets go!!!! another videoo!
Hey buddy good to see ya man. Can u test next time or one day i7-965 1st gen . Nice video I love all ur videos especially Sunday's videos 🥰❤️
Great nostalgic video. I have q9400 in that time, can you test it next one, please, if its possible of course.
Noshahr brings so many memories back
He should definitively try a core2quad qx9650 with rtx 3090ti. This combination is fire.🔥🥵
Funny thing is the 8Mb L3 cache was once a whole hard drive size.
I used to have it, upgraded only because it didn't supported new instructions sets, it was powerful enough for me.
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.
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).
Cool Video 😄 nice ❤️
HI ZWORMZ I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS BIG FAN BROOO
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
I still own Core 2 Duo E6600 and back in the days 4 core CPU was a dream
Still rocking this chip
still using it
what a beast
Legends say he still hasnt tested the overclocked version...
Awesome video😎😂😂🤓
I had the SLACR stepping back in the day. Crysis with 2 8800 GTS in sli. Good times !
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!
I would like to see you test some GPUs in Escape from Tarkov, it is getting pretty popular sooo..
My first CPU still a beast
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.
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
Holy shit how Good you are IN FPS game Respect!!! like
another beautiful sunday video!
you forgot to put the pci-express in the grafics card, still i love the video.
a true legend
I bought a q6600 for my optiplex 780, and I remember how amazed I was at the time
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 remember playing TF2 on my Q6600 (and 9600gso) back in the day....fun times :)
My dream cpu growing up. Still haven't actually had one sadly. Think maybe I should do a retro build and play fear again.
The Q6600 is a legendary cpu.
my favorite channel🥰
Nice video
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
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.
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 Love this Cpu back in the Days Run at 3.3GHz a Furios Thing
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.
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 :)
On the minecraft part, you disabled settings on the "performace" tab that actually made the game run smoother
Still, good video kryzp
Im very interested to see windows 7 and overclocked very interesting video
Man I had this beast. I loved it. It replaced my E8400 and it felt magical.
the E8400 is faster
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.
This is the first cpu I bought. Such an amazing cpu!
Bought one in fall of 2007 and still use it every day to this day. Though, overclocked to 3.55GHz.
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
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.
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!
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
bro i'm born in 2007 too, crazy to think that my mom raised my when this cpu launched😂
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
Don't forget about the old good tape god mode 3.00ghz 💪
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?
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.
Gpu: chilling
Cpu: sweating
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.
Need to test Q9400...
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.
when i used this cpu it always took the pc 20 minutes to start but when it ran it ran like a beast lol
It's Sunday, yess
This is one impressive Kryzzp... The cpus good too ig
It was my dream cpu in 2007...
Bro needs some credit for consistency