My build originally had an E7300 that I overclocked to 3.4 GHz. Ive since upgraded to a Q9500 overclocked to 3.6 GHz. It has served me well for $15 and im upgrading to a 10100 this christmas
im playing around with an e8400 @ 4 ghz (just quick oc for now, maybe it can do even more) and it honestly isnt that slow, definitely still usable for web browsing, youtube, some office etc
Gonna miss c2qs on the channel, started watching from your first couple vids that boosted the channel (i was recommended one of the old c2q $1000 vids back when it was released) keep up the great vids and the boggest F possible to the core 2 series
They make for great xp era gaming handle 360 era titles without issue the og mafia 2 for example even when paired with a 750 ti. Dead for modern triple a gaming for sure but games like fallout 3 and new vegas the best fallout games and even the og skyrim work fine.
@@RK-zf1jm i play fallout 4 and witcher 3 in mine its a 40-50 fps experience with some drops to the 30s o locked at 33 fps and i did not see any problem in non open games until 2017 from this year some games requires some instructions that this cpu does not have and some will give u 10 fps so 2017 is the limit and i like the way i play my entire rig was the best 20 bucks i have spent in my entire life, its overclocked to 3.0 ghz with no problems
It's amazing how well they lasted. They're what 13 years old now and, gaming aside, are still perfectly capable machines. To put things in perspective a 13 year old machine in 2007 would be a Pentium 60 if you were filthy rich, or more likely a 486DX2, maybe a DX4, fit only for the bin.
Still here rocking it. although I recommend using newer models since those have more transistors on them about 5-10 times more.. (Mine) e5405, 820million transistors.
@Narkomancers then games would be leaning towards more intensive gpu optimization and all the money you could be saving on the cpu would be spent on gpus assuming you wanted a mid range to high end one.
@Narkomancers It doesn't work like that. Using a 2600 today isn't bad because it has 4 cores, it's bad because it it's single thread performance is not enough to keep up with modern games and gpus...that's the single biggest factor in cpu obsolescence So you would still need to upgrade But now instead of upgrading to a new cpu with 4 cores again you get extra cores for basically "free", which would not have been true if Intel had no competition.
@Narkomancers Yeah but if everyone had stayed in dual core cpus, then we wouldn't have any of the amazing AAA games we have today, think about it, it was time for technology to advance already
Core 2 architecture is based on the Pentium 3 "Core" architecture, the reason the Core 2 Quads are still Core 2s is because Core 2 Quads (Q6600 and Q6700) were just two Core 2 Duo E6600 or E6700 dies on the same processor under the IHS, so the same Core 2 Architecture
Not to bad for a 12 year old processor, you can still use it for a media pc. Good video! PS: can you make a video about NVidia's GTX 950 or AMD's Phenom?
@randomrider Yes I have an e7500 which is a core 2 duo @ 2.93 GHz and I use it as a media PC. Mainly used for music moreso than videos or movies. I am a big collector of music CDs and I make lossless rips of all my albums to the PC for redundancy as well as for the convenience of not having to switch a CD out all of the time. I have a GT 730 DDR3 in it so it can handle low res UA-cam but it's mainly used for music. Like a lossless digital library with a decent sound system connected to it.
@@nikolakarovic5964 thinking in upgrade my q6600 for this one do u have experience?... Is it dangerous and do i need any custom bios for xeons to work? Its like 10 bucks for me here in Brazil bro and i dont have any money for a pc, my r7 250 stay at 40-50% in open worlds like fallout 4 and i know its not a good gpu
I remember going to a work colleague's house in about 2007 and him showing me his Q6600 - absolutely blown away at the time and massively jealous. Only a few years later it was a dog of a performer compared to the *i* series
Things must move on. I hope you start to take a closer look at the early i3/i5/i7 series chips now. Would be interested to see on this channel how they stack up these days for playing newer titles.
Some say, that without Copyright issues, this video would have had music from My Chemical Romance. That said, one of the PCs I use is a Siemens TX200 S4 with Dual X5450 Xeons (~Q9650) and it's pretty reliable at encoding Videos (Handbrake).
I have a modded Xeon e5440 (the CPU itself not the socket) with an overclock to 3,8Ghz still doing really well here. Without the overclock it should be = C2Q Q9550 I believe. I feel like it does quite a lot better than the CPU shown in the video, the one in the video is a relatively low end C2Q. It's still quite impressive how well some computer parts hold up over the years, I'm using an i7 3770k (@4,2Ghz), combined with an r9 390x in my primary pc and it's still a very good machine! I've been holding back from upgrading since it still plays everything I want at the performance and settings I want😃. (Maybe a cool video idea if you read this: Modding a socket 771 Xeon to Socket 775, the Xeons are very similar to the C2Qs but their silicon is likely better binned and they used to be even cheaper than C2Qs! Got mine for like 4 euros a few years ago😛)
I joined you last year on my vacation in san fransisco. Been watching every upload since. I absolutely love your content and you were an inspiration to my own channel, and I can't thank you enough.
I think I found your channel back when I did my socket 771/5 mod with a Xeon E5450, 8gb ddr3 and a glorious 7970 3gb. That was awesome. Currently running an I7 2600k @4.8GHz, 16gb ddr3 @2133, RX580 8gig paired with an 80hz oc'ed 1080p monitor. I'll upgrade next year, it's still good enough.
Been watching this channel since my Pentium E5300 and later upgraded Q6600. What an amazing journey that was back then. Joined the Ryzen gang in 2019, still miss my old C2Q Q6600.
It’s a shame 775 is now off this channel as I first found it by searching core and quad videos lol 😆 anyway thanks for the videos bro feels like end of an era haha
Your thumbnail brings back memories. I had a similar board (P5LD2 SE) which first housed a P4, which then I upgraded to a Core 2 Duo. I tried to play around with that board a while ago but the socket had 2 bent pins which prevented it from POSTing.
Me reading the first part of the title: Noooo, don’t tell me this is a farewell video and the channel’s going to close :( After reading the full title: Oh thank god it’s only saying farewell to this old CPU!!
I still remember when my first PC (dual core E2180 in 2008) was being assembled at the shop there was this poster for core 2 quad with fires and everything and being promoted as a gaming CPU. I wanted it but I was still happy with what I was getting. With only just onboard graphics, i had the best gaming time of my life. Coming from School and playing GTA San Andreas while eating lunch is the best feeling.
I remember finding your channel shortly after the Core 2 Quad video. I was building a cheap LAN box in a HAF XB Evo and needed to see where the GPU bottlenecks would begin. Thanks for the awesome content. Especially the last year looking at weird rare cards, and super value items.
I think back in 2011 to 2013 I remember my family had a dell inspiron 530 tower (I still have it) with a duo and it ran internet while on Vista lol. Memeories
During the first UK lockdown I learnt how to build computers by starting with an LGA775 and E5200 CPU and later upgraded to Q9550. Yes the CPUs can be had quite cheaply but the motherboards also need to be well priced to make it worthwhile. Great for learning and you don’t lose too much money if you “muck” it up. Only 4GB of RAM in most cases and USB 2. I have since moved onto LGA1150 with i7-4790 and i5-4590. Who said 2020 was a wasted year :-)
i Found your channel running an e7400 :) That PC now has a Q9300 inside, it's waiting on upgrades like an SSD and GT1030 + an 8GB RAM kit, i'll also be painting the chassis, cutting out a window and adding some lights and wire some new fans into that Optiplex 360, As long as you mark out new titles, it should run decently on some older titles, currently the GT610 i have is holding it back and the hard drive makes it real sloppy, but hopefully it should be a chirpy system in the future :)
do the 12mb cache ones offer actual improvement in frametimes as they should, given the big limit in these cpus is memory latency because of the northbridge architecture?
They're still great to help breathe life into older systems. I recently found an old Inspiron 537s desktop. I took out the old E5200 and slapped a Q9400 into it, along with an extra gig of memory and an SSD with a fresh win10 install. The thing went from chugging along on Vista just trying to watch a 720p YT video on Firefox to easily handling 1080p YT videos and even crushing most of the PS2 era and down emulation. Total cost was like 40 bucks.
I built a retro rig with an HP board and an e6600 literally from a dumpster. Put in 2gb ram for €2.50, a 9600gt for €5 and a Q6600 for €1. Very happily playing windows XP era games with it :) Playing games like Halo CE, Crysis, GTA SA/4 and even COD BO just feels much more enjoyable on an older PC
Damn, I've been subscribed and watching you for over 4 years now. First video being that £25 PC build and the video that got into wanting to build a PC with basically no money. This lead me to watch all your future videos from then on and therefore I've seen you test the core 2 quad many times. It'll be sad to see the ol' king go, but they won't be forgotten.
Thank you for the wonderful video about the 775. what a great legacy it has had. A true legend along with 476, 478, 1366 and 1151 just to name a few. Thanks again for your work.
The I5 2400 had a good run and is still viable is some AAA games but yes it has started to show it's age. I first noticed this with Assassin's Creed Origins 2017, but it wasn't until 2019 when I really began to notice more and more stutter with the games that I play. I built a new rig last summer in 2020 but before that I used an I5 2400 for years. In the beginning I paired it with an EVGA GTX 570 1.25gb then went onto a PNY 1050 Ti 4gb and finally a Power Color Red Dragon Rx 480 4gb before I retired the beast and built my current rig. I wouldn't recommend going higher than a GTX 1060 6gb/ Rx 480/580 or the CPU will begin to bottleneck the GPU. There are exceptions but this has been my experience.
Core 2 duo are great processors for people who don't play games, for homeworkers it's more than enough and in my opinion they can last for years to come.
They definitively will show their age at some points but are perfectly fine for other applications. Especially for the price point, since most 775/771 components are free or almost free. Great alternatives to chrome books for general use, imo.
The first PC I ever put together, inspired by your channel, had a little Q6600 that came to me as a surprise in a motherboard combo, along with 8 gb of DDR2 RAM and an HD 4890. I still remember it being able to play through most of Ghost Recon Wildlands and Metal Gear Solid V with acceptable performance. It's sad to see these falling behind for gaming, but there are still a lot of other capable used CPUs to explore.
Well a combination of lack of modern instructions as well as the IPC of the architecture itself is lagging behind compared to modern architectures. It all depends on what you want to use it for. I have a modern gaming PC that I just built last year but I hold onto my C2D e7500 and use it as a lossless digital library. I also have a decent sound system hooked up to it. But yeah, besides old games like Fallout New Vegas, the E7500 is retired from gaming and is used for my music collection.
@@MisterTonyG Nice man glad to hear you're still utilizing old gear and minimizing e-waste. I thought tho that no amount of IPC difference would justify that hard of a performance hit, so the main reason had to be instruction sets.
Videos like this is why I appreciate this channel! There are too many TechTubers that end up implying "You have a 9900K?!?! OMG that will bottleneck this new 3000 series GPU!" which as you've been able to prove with various combinations of hardware, is absolute bollocks
Goodbye my old friend. I have many great memories of the lga775 cpus. I still have my core 2 extreme qx9650 one of my favorite over clocking cpus. Paired with an intel battle axe board.
Another core 2 extreme quad qx9650 user here. Overclocked to 3.8ghz, 8gb ram, gtx 580. Runs w10, o2019, all media, world of tanks and path of exile perfectly. I've been an IT engineer for nearly 30 years - don't feel like upgrading yet...
@@groszek7657 i still use mine for xp era games. Still a great machine mine is running windows 10 and xp. 500gb ssd 8gb ram r9 270x. Although you would notice a huge improvement in modern day hardware.
Still use the good old Q6600 for a test bench type of computer :) Built on a shelf (literaly no case), and it makes messing with hard drives much more convinient.
Those CPUs are a hell of a fighters. Only the fact that they can start 80% of new games is incredible considering their age. Still rocking a q6600 and for some light gaming and web browsing, prefectly fine.
@@coffeecel in some cases 50% + no stuttering , i have a i3 6100 but with single channel ram, i tweaked my windows only to gain 250 fps in csgo 20 fps more in shadow of tomb raider
I still use one c2q my mobo is a p5kpl-vm i can get 30 fps in games till 2017,my mobo sucks cause it overclock memory with the cpu and my memory isnt good at oc my c2q is stuck at 2.9 ghz and i know i could get more... And i will remember this cpu and mobo for ever was using a pentium dual core until the upgrade...
@@jakobe_bryantgaming5580 yep, Q9400@3.6 with a GTX1050, used daily and has been for the last 10+ years, it was paired with a GTX 460, it's fine with single player games, but struggles with multiplayer
My dad still has his old q9400 pc goin strong with a new 1050ti! We finally got a new home pc but we use it as a server like thing with all it's hard drives. It served us well when it did tho.
been a long time follower since the core2quad days. you should leave one and make a section for retrogaminginHD or randomgaminginXP :D i bet a lot will be interested seeing these processors running older games on max resolution in Windows XP and older.
I have a second gaming PC using a SFF Dell Optiplex 960. And I happen to have a Q9650 in the little beast paired with an RX 550 4GB from Yeston. Its one of my most favorite builds. Shows what a CPU a decade old can do in 2020, Played DOOM 2016 on it with no issues as well as some Halo MCC, GTA V and a few other games. Im gonna miss the little guy from this channel.
An amazing series of CPU's. I'm running an OC'd q9550 on a p35 mobo with 8GB of RAM. The damn chip can run overclocked and undervolted at the same time, it's quite impressive. I tried pairing it with a GTX 1050 and it pulled out 60fps in BF1, when the q6600 on the same PC maxed out at 40fps. Saldy as you said some if not most programs wont run due to the lack of modern instruction, but otherwise it's enought for everything
The Core2 series truly set the standard for Intel’s CPUs for years to come. My first PC was a Pentium 4 machine but when I upgraded to a C2D with the exact same configuration but a newer version of Windows it ran so much better. What amazing CPUs these were.
Just the fact that this processor can actually fun modern games speaks volumes of the painfully slow pace of innovation in games technology. 12 years... Imagine a 2000 processor running 2012 games!
775 was a great socket, that lasted long and gave lots of power for good prices. OC potential and lots of parts available. The other great era in my top 3 was X58 i7 and then Sandy Bridge i7. Very fun CPU's
I still have my old Dell Q6600 system that I picked up a few years back for free. I also have a Q9400 CPU just sat doing nothing in my box of PC bits. I loved the old Core2 Quads and the Q6600 really was something special for the time.
I actually got a Q9650 for cheap, so I have to say: there is a huge difference between different C2Qs. Some have 12MB of L2 cache, and some cope with only 4MB.
My main rig ran a Core 2 Extreme up until 2016 or so when I jumped to newer stuff. But even at that point, if I wasn't doing more demanding stuff like video editing I probably could've gotten even longer use out of it. It really impressed me how well it held up after I threw in a GTX 970 and ran things just fine afterwards. I still got the old board collecting dust, eventually will turn it into a HTPC or NAS server or something. Wouldn't game on it, but thing can hold it's own in that regard still I'm sure.
My PC gaming journey started with a Q6600. Served me well over the years. Just traded up to a E-2690 and noticed about double the performance increase. For the price, it was well worth it.
That was my exact CPU that I used between 2012-2016 when I moved from my laptop to a real desktop. I paired it with an R7 200 series card in 2014 (can't remember what I used before, probably integrated graphics) and honestly I got very lackluster performance for it. I'm not sure if it was my ram (4 gb of ddr2) that was holding me back but FPS was completely random for me. L4D2 would run anywhere between 30-60fps at 720p and TF2 was similar with TONS of stutters on low. Emulated a lot of games on it though, Silent Hill 3 and God Hand were some games I remember very fondly.
Even though i upgraded the primary machine a long Time ago, i still have my Core2Quad Q9300 PC around. It was in a "permanent" use as a Gaming/Office PC as my secondary machine before it then got switched for a core i5 2300, which in turn got then became an i7 but i digress. The Q9300 was my first Quad CPU and i was blown away by it's performance back then. Even though i could sell it, i can't bring myself to it.
But if the Core2Quad is finally obsolete whats gonna happen with all the Single Core CPUs im still messing around with. Damn.
hey they'll make nice keychains
No idea but I’m looking forward to seeing what you do with them 😁
Collect them, and obtain gold from their contacts XD. Also some people make a collection of them, framed like butterflies on needles under glass.
They will be good hand warmers :).
Use it for a music streaming box
Not yet my friend. Still rocking a Core 2 duo E7400 in my second PC going strong
My build originally had an E7300 that I overclocked to 3.4 GHz. Ive since upgraded to a Q9500 overclocked to 3.6 GHz. It has served me well for $15 and im upgrading to a 10100 this christmas
I have a q6600 @3.5 and ddr3 @1600 and it’s not actually that bad with a 1050 non ti
Awesome :)
@@RandomGaminginHD I wanted just to ask is the Q8400 good too random gaming HD ?
im playing around with an e8400 @ 4 ghz (just quick oc for now, maybe it can do even more) and it honestly isnt that slow, definitely still usable for web browsing, youtube, some office etc
RGinHD: It's time to go now.
Q8300: Was I a good processor?
RGinHD: Yes,yes you were.
Only some of the title showing up in my notifications was very scary, "thank you and goodbye" sounded like this would be a very different video
Yeah starting to think I should have put that bit last in the title haha
I almost thought you were going to leave UA-cam.
Nah never :)
@@RandomGaminginHD phew, it'd be unfortunate if you did, this channel has been quite inspiring for me.
@@RandomGaminginHD Bitchute? 'NEVER' is a strong word :-/
@@RandomGaminginHD I hope you don't!
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Gonna miss c2qs on the channel, started watching from your first couple vids that boosted the channel (i was recommended one of the old c2q $1000 vids back when it was released) keep up the great vids and the boggest F possible to the core 2 series
Thanks for sticking around for so long :)
Bro that title scared me tbh
Right? ;-;
Same. Omg
@@kirinokousaka7638 holy fuck same man, haven’t been watching too much lately but yeah
An excellent final send off for the Core Quads. They were the bread and butter at the time, and still make for a decent retro gaming rig to this day.
They make for great xp era gaming handle 360 era titles without issue the og mafia 2 for example even when paired with a 750 ti. Dead for modern triple a gaming for sure but games like fallout 3 and new vegas the best fallout games and even the og skyrim work fine.
@@RK-zf1jm i play fallout 4 and witcher 3 in mine its a 40-50 fps experience with some drops to the 30s o locked at 33 fps and i did not see any problem in non open games until 2017 from this year some games requires some instructions that this cpu does not have and some will give u 10 fps so 2017 is the limit and i like the way i play my entire rig was the best 20 bucks i have spent in my entire life, its overclocked to 3.0 ghz with no problems
@@RK-zf1jm and almost if not all games from 360 and ps3 era its a 60 fps without any doubt
The core2/phenom2 era is one of my favorites
It's amazing how well they lasted. They're what 13 years old now and, gaming aside, are still perfectly capable machines.
To put things in perspective a 13 year old machine in 2007 would be a Pentium 60 if you were filthy rich, or more likely a 486DX2, maybe a DX4, fit only for the bin.
Still here rocking it.
although I recommend using newer models since those have more transistors on them about 5-10 times more..
(Mine) e5405, 820million transistors.
We would still be stuck with 4 core mainstream CPUs if AMD had not got their act together.
@Narkomancers Exactly.
@Narkomancers then games would be leaning towards more intensive gpu optimization and all the money you could be saving on the cpu would be spent on gpus assuming you wanted a mid range to high end one.
@Narkomancers It doesn't work like that. Using a 2600 today isn't bad because it has 4 cores, it's bad because it it's single thread performance is not enough to keep up with modern games and gpus...that's the single biggest factor in cpu obsolescence So you would still need to upgrade
But now instead of upgrading to a new cpu with 4 cores again you get extra cores for basically "free", which would not have been true if Intel had no competition.
@Narkomancers Yeah but if everyone had stayed in dual core cpus, then we wouldn't have any of the amazing AAA games we have today, think about it, it was time for technology to advance already
@Narkomancers Do you actually think that Cyberpunk 2077 would be able to run on a Pentium Dual core and 6GB of ram, if Devs weren't that "lazy"
Rip to the cpu that is named core 2 and has 4 cores.
@Johnfuse I know its just the first part that makes no sense
@@slime3058 It's because there was a "Core" generation of CPUs before that.
@@yeoldegamer5112 I understand that but 2 isnt equal to four
it's based on the "core 2" architecture, to be more precise a core 2 quad is litterally two core 2 duo die, like on Ryzen cpu for exemple
Core 2 architecture is based on the Pentium 3 "Core" architecture, the reason the Core 2 Quads are still Core 2s is because Core 2 Quads (Q6600 and Q6700) were just two Core 2 Duo E6600 or E6700 dies on the same processor under the IHS, so the same Core 2 Architecture
LGA 775...C2Q...man I feel so nostalgic right now
anyone remember how all and any hotels always had that "Core 2 DUO inside" stickers on their pcs
I have one of those stuck with a windows 7 sticker XD.
3:12 That combo is the funniest thing I've seen in quite a while.
That card be gigantic..
I remember when you were always doing Core 2. End of an era mate.
Not to bad for a 12 year old processor, you can still use it for a media pc. Good video! PS: can you make a video about NVidia's GTX 950 or AMD's Phenom?
My Q6600 3GHz tops out at 720p/1080p UA-cam. I can't do anything else when watching with the latter option.
@@ayuchanayuko h264ify?
@randomrider Yes I have an e7500 which is a core 2 duo @ 2.93 GHz and I use it as a media PC. Mainly used for music moreso than videos or movies. I am a big collector of music CDs and I make lossless rips of all my albums to the PC for redundancy as well as for the convenience of not having to switch a CD out all of the time. I have a GT 730 DDR3 in it so it can handle low res UA-cam but it's mainly used for music. Like a lossless digital library with a decent sound system connected to it.
The Q6600 is one of (if not, the only) the very few processors that both side of the CPU war respects.
X5470 can do 4.4ghz with 12mb cash.
@@nikolakarovic5964 my poor Q9550 can do 4.6GHz...
@@nikolakarovic5964 its cache everywhere. cash is money
@@nikolakarovic5964 thinking in upgrade my q6600 for this one do u have experience?... Is it dangerous and do i need any custom bios for xeons to work? Its like 10 bucks for me here in Brazil bro and i dont have any money for a pc, my r7 250 stay at 40-50% in open worlds like fallout 4 and i know its not a good gpu
I'd say the 2600k edges out the q6600 when it comes to legendary processors.
I remember going to a work colleague's house in about 2007 and him showing me his Q6600 - absolutely blown away at the time and massively jealous. Only a few years later it was a dog of a performer compared to the *i* series
Things must move on. I hope you start to take a closer look at the early i3/i5/i7 series chips now. Would be interested to see on this channel how they stack up these days for playing newer titles.
Some say, that without Copyright issues, this video would have had music from My Chemical Romance.
That said, one of the PCs I use is a Siemens TX200 S4 with Dual X5450 Xeons (~Q9650) and it's pretty reliable at encoding Videos (Handbrake).
I have a modded Xeon e5440 (the CPU itself not the socket) with an overclock to 3,8Ghz still doing really well here. Without the overclock it should be = C2Q Q9550 I believe. I feel like it does quite a lot better than the CPU shown in the video, the one in the video is a relatively low end C2Q. It's still quite impressive how well some computer parts hold up over the years, I'm using an i7 3770k (@4,2Ghz), combined with an r9 390x in my primary pc and it's still a very good machine! I've been holding back from upgrading since it still plays everything I want at the performance and settings I want😃.
(Maybe a cool video idea if you read this: Modding a socket 771 Xeon to Socket 775, the Xeons are very similar to the C2Qs but their silicon is likely better binned and they used to be even cheaper than C2Qs! Got mine for like 4 euros a few years ago😛)
i remember looking for 1050 ti reviews, and i randomly came across your channel, ever since i love your channel, keep it coming
i read the first part of the title and my heart started beating fast please dont quit RGIHD
Found you because of my q6600 and followed you ever since.
That's exactly the CPU/mobo combo I had, with a GTX 460 Cyclone
Love the 460!
I joined you last year on my vacation in san fransisco. Been watching every upload since. I absolutely love your content and you were an inspiration to my own channel, and I can't thank you enough.
I overclocked my pentium e5200 dual core from 2008 from 2.5GHz to 4.4GHz, 210cb points in cinebench R15. Amazing.
Is better than a last gen low end laptop
I think I found your channel back when I did my socket 771/5 mod with a Xeon E5450, 8gb ddr3 and a glorious 7970 3gb. That was awesome. Currently running an I7 2600k @4.8GHz, 16gb ddr3 @2133, RX580 8gig paired with an 80hz oc'ed 1080p monitor. I'll upgrade next year, it's still good enough.
Farewell, old friend, and rest in peace
Been watching this channel since my Pentium E5300 and later upgraded Q6600. What an amazing journey that was back then. Joined the Ryzen gang in 2019, still miss my old C2Q Q6600.
It’s a shame 775 is now off this channel as I first found it by searching core and quad videos lol 😆 anyway thanks for the videos bro feels like end of an era haha
Press F to Pay Respects for 2009 Intel. A true hero.
this is the end brothers.
thank you core 2 quad, the go-to choice of poor gamers since 2015 or so.
you will be missed.
c2q 2006-2020
Your thumbnail brings back memories. I had a similar board (P5LD2 SE) which first housed a P4, which then I upgraded to a Core 2 Duo. I tried to play around with that board a while ago but the socket had 2 bent pins which prevented it from POSTing.
Me reading the first part of the title: Noooo, don’t tell me this is a farewell video and the channel’s going to close :(
After reading the full title: Oh thank god it’s only saying farewell to this old CPU!!
I still remember when my first PC (dual core E2180 in 2008) was being assembled at the shop there was this poster for core 2 quad with fires and everything and being promoted as a gaming CPU. I wanted it but I was still happy with what I was getting. With only just onboard graphics, i had the best gaming time of my life. Coming from School and playing GTA San Andreas while eating lunch is the best feeling.
"Proceeds to place all the CPUs in a box and label it for Phil's Computer Lab."
I remember finding your channel shortly after the Core 2 Quad video. I was building a cheap LAN box in a HAF XB Evo and needed to see where the GPU bottlenecks would begin. Thanks for the awesome content. Especially the last year looking at weird rare cards, and super value items.
I still have a dedicated Windows XP rig with a Q9550 4GB of ram and a GTX 750 Ti. The XP era games are flying ( so do other programs ).
Me too, with GTX 650 and 8gb ram. It's funny how almost every game I have from the era requires way less.
Soon u ll be in one million mark my words watching ur videos since 10k subs
3:12
that moment when you win a graphics card giveaway but dont have a PC to go with it
You are Legendary!.....Who else would pair a Core 2 Quad with a 3070? Love it!
Alternative title: thank u, next - A Final Look At Intel's "Core 2 Quad" Processors
Ive been here since rghd was running the g3258. You come a long way.
I think back in 2011 to 2013 I remember my family had a dell inspiron 530 tower (I still have it) with a duo and it ran internet while on Vista lol. Memeories
Oh windows vista that brings back memories. Not just good ones lol
During the first UK lockdown I learnt how to build computers by starting with an LGA775 and E5200 CPU and later upgraded to Q9550. Yes the CPUs can be had quite cheaply but the motherboards also need to be well priced to make it worthwhile. Great for learning and you don’t lose too much money if you “muck” it up. Only 4GB of RAM in most cases and USB 2. I have since moved onto LGA1150 with i7-4790 and i5-4590. Who said 2020 was a wasted year :-)
"Hello everyone, and welcome to the final video of the Core 2 Quad's.... " 😭😭😭😭😭
i Found your channel running an e7400 :) That PC now has a Q9300 inside, it's waiting on upgrades like an SSD and GT1030 + an 8GB RAM kit, i'll also be painting the chassis, cutting out a window and adding some lights and wire some new fans into that Optiplex 360, As long as you mark out new titles, it should run decently on some older titles, currently the GT610 i have is holding it back and the hard drive makes it real sloppy, but hopefully it should be a chirpy system in the future :)
do the 12mb cache ones offer actual improvement in frametimes as they should, given the big limit in these cpus is memory latency because of the northbridge architecture?
AFAIK yes. Less stuttering. Overclocked E5450 @4GHz DDR3 still keeps up (comparable to locked i5 Sandy).
They're still great to help breathe life into older systems. I recently found an old Inspiron 537s desktop. I took out the old E5200 and slapped a Q9400 into it, along with an extra gig of memory and an SSD with a fresh win10 install. The thing went from chugging along on Vista just trying to watch a 720p YT video on Firefox to easily handling 1080p YT videos and even crushing most of the PS2 era and down emulation. Total cost was like 40 bucks.
Can it play 1080p60 youtoube videos?
I built a retro rig with an HP board and an e6600 literally from a dumpster.
Put in 2gb ram for €2.50, a 9600gt for €5 and a Q6600 for €1.
Very happily playing windows XP era games with it :)
Playing games like Halo CE, Crysis, GTA SA/4 and even COD BO just feels much more enjoyable on an older PC
Damn, I was going to upgrade to the Core 2 Quad 😭
Lmao
yikes, from what
From a Pentium 4? Lol.
I did that let year from celestron lolol
should do the 771 to 775 mod and get yourself a cheap xeon instead
Damn, I've been subscribed and watching you for over 4 years now. First video being that £25 PC build and the video that got into wanting to build a PC with basically no money. This lead me to watch all your future videos from then on and therefore I've seen you test the core 2 quad many times. It'll be sad to see the ol' king go, but they won't be forgotten.
*I'm still happy with the Core 2 Duo in my 2010 Macbook :)*
@ENUIRA But even that is changing rapidly with websites and software getting more and more power-hungry than they are and especially were
@ENUIRA Apple has probably ended support for devices of that age, so that's probably changing.
Thank you for the wonderful video about the 775. what a great legacy it has had. A true legend along with 476, 478, 1366 and 1151 just to name a few. Thanks again for your work.
There's me with my Core 2 Quad Q9200 on my Intel Dg45id motherboard :)
man I love these old chips, I'm still running a 2400 in my main rig, get some of the same stutter in many games seen here
The I5 2400 had a good run and is still viable is some AAA games but yes it has started to show it's age. I first noticed this with Assassin's Creed Origins 2017, but it wasn't until 2019 when I really began to notice more and more stutter with the games that I play. I built a new rig last summer in 2020 but before that I used an I5 2400 for years. In the beginning I paired it with an EVGA GTX 570 1.25gb then went onto a PNY 1050 Ti 4gb and finally a Power Color Red Dragon Rx 480 4gb before I retired the beast and built my current rig. I wouldn't recommend going higher than a GTX 1060 6gb/ Rx 480/580 or the CPU will begin to bottleneck the GPU. There are exceptions but this has been my experience.
Core 2 duo are great processors for people who don't play games, for homeworkers it's more than enough and in my opinion they can last for years to come.
They definitively will show their age at some points but are perfectly fine for other applications. Especially for the price point, since most 775/771 components are free or almost free. Great alternatives to chrome books for general use, imo.
The first PC I ever put together, inspired by your channel, had a little Q6600 that came to me as a surprise in a motherboard combo, along with 8 gb of DDR2 RAM and an HD 4890. I still remember it being able to play through most of Ghost Recon Wildlands and Metal Gear Solid V with acceptable performance. It's sad to see these falling behind for gaming, but there are still a lot of other capable used CPUs to explore.
It's due to the complete lack of the AVX instruction set, right? Riperino
Well a combination of lack of modern instructions as well as the IPC of the architecture itself is lagging behind compared to modern architectures. It all depends on what you want to use it for. I have a modern gaming PC that I just built last year but I hold onto my C2D e7500 and use it as a lossless digital library. I also have a decent sound system hooked up to it. But yeah, besides old games like Fallout New Vegas, the E7500 is retired from gaming and is used for my music collection.
@@MisterTonyG Nice man glad to hear you're still utilizing old gear and minimizing e-waste. I thought tho that no amount of IPC difference would justify that hard of a performance hit, so the main reason had to be instruction sets.
@@adebowalekonstantinov404 It is true that some games won't even start without the correct instruction set.
Still using a X3323 (Core 2 Quad equiv Xeon?) in my secondary rig. It's still totally capable for web browsing and word processing!
I wonder why intel stopped making the core 2 series?
They stayed around a long time. news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Stops-Making-Four-of-Its-Core-2-Duo-CPUs-155852.shtml
Videos like this is why I appreciate this channel!
There are too many TechTubers that end up implying "You have a 9900K?!?! OMG that will bottleneck this new 3000 series GPU!" which as you've been able to prove with various combinations of hardware, is absolute bollocks
This hits me right in the Core... you get it? THE CORE! Ok, I'm leaving
right in the quadcore
Goodbye my old friend. I have many great memories of the lga775 cpus. I still have my core 2 extreme qx9650 one of my favorite over clocking cpus. Paired with an intel battle axe board.
Another core 2 extreme quad qx9650 user here. Overclocked to 3.8ghz, 8gb ram, gtx 580. Runs w10, o2019, all media, world of tanks and path of exile perfectly. I've been an IT engineer for nearly 30 years - don't feel like upgrading yet...
@@groszek7657 i still use mine for xp era games. Still a great machine mine is running windows 10 and xp. 500gb ssd 8gb ram r9 270x. Although you would notice a huge improvement in modern day hardware.
Hey look! At the time of me writing this, the video is 775 comments!
Still use the good old Q6600 for a test bench type of computer :)
Built on a shelf (literaly no case), and it makes messing with hard drives much more convinient.
I Still Use Core 2 Quad Btw
Me too hahaha
Those CPUs are a hell of a fighters. Only the fact that they can start 80% of new games is incredible considering their age. Still rocking a q6600 and for some light gaming and web browsing, prefectly fine.
Core 2 extreme? :)
Automatic thumbs up on every video! Always great content.
A legend.
Still using the Q8300, overclocked to 3 GHz on P5Q SE and HD5670. And I have to say, the overclok is definitelly worth it.
I still use core 2 duo, and i'm still dreaming of getting a core 2 quad cause im broke asf😰🤣🤣
TBH it still is good for daily routine.
Cries in pentium 4
My dad is still using his, the CPU has plenty of power for office work :) I really like the 775 socket, it's kind of nostalgic now.
Debloat windows 10 tweak regedit and redo this video lets see how much it impacts
Maybe 10-15% performance increase
@@coffeecel in some cases 50% + no stuttering , i have a i3 6100 but with single channel ram, i tweaked my windows only to gain 250 fps in csgo 20 fps more in shadow of tomb raider
@@danielkatanaofficial Thats a rare case
@@coffeecel in rdr 2 around 20 more fps in sant denis heavy cpu bottleneck , siege around 40 fps rocket league 100 more fps
@@coffeecel the only game that runs a bit better is re 3 remake that is optimized amazingly well around 10 more fps
P5K SE....damn i recognized that MB instantly, it was my first socket 775 board back in the day, what a well balanced board.
I still use one c2q my mobo is a p5kpl-vm i can get 30 fps in games till 2017,my mobo sucks cause it overclock memory with the cpu and my memory isnt good at oc my c2q is stuck at 2.9 ghz and i know i could get more... And i will remember this cpu and mobo for ever was using a pentium dual core until the upgrade...
I have a P5Q in my main 775 machine.
My pc w/ a modded xeon e5430 (3.45ghz oc) in p45 mobo can run gta5 ez hahaha
Yeah ! I remember it being smooth af. Same chip and overclock.
I got a Q9500 OC'ed to 3.6 GHz on the daily, they were great overclockers tbh. And I have an asus p5q se (p45). Stock is 2.83 btw
@@jakobe_bryantgaming5580 yep, Q9400@3.6 with a GTX1050, used daily and has been for the last 10+ years, it was paired with a GTX 460, it's fine with single player games, but struggles with multiplayer
The q8300 is severely limited by a lack of cache, faster chips like the e5430 and q9550 have 12mb compared to 4 on the q8300.
My dad still has his old q9400 pc goin strong with a new 1050ti! We finally got a new home pc but we use it as a server like thing with all it's hard drives. It served us well when it did tho.
I had a Core 2 Quad back in '17-'18 if i remember correctly. Were still beasts of a cpu for modern tasks and CSGO
been a long time follower since the core2quad days. you should leave one and make a section for retrogaminginHD or randomgaminginXP :D i bet a lot will be interested seeing these processors running older games on max resolution in Windows XP and older.
I subscribed to you because you review budget tech and I’m a budget guy. So I appreciate your videos they are super helpful!
I have a second gaming PC using a SFF Dell Optiplex 960. And I happen to have a Q9650 in the little beast paired with an RX 550 4GB from Yeston.
Its one of my most favorite builds. Shows what a CPU a decade old can do in 2020, Played DOOM 2016 on it with no issues as well as some Halo MCC, GTA V and a few other games. Im gonna miss the little guy from this channel.
An amazing series of CPU's. I'm running an OC'd q9550 on a p35 mobo with 8GB of RAM. The damn chip can run overclocked and undervolted at the same time, it's quite impressive. I tried pairing it with a GTX 1050 and it pulled out 60fps in BF1, when the q6600 on the same PC maxed out at 40fps. Saldy as you said some if not most programs wont run due to the lack of modern instruction, but otherwise it's enought for everything
The Core2 series truly set the standard for Intel’s CPUs for years to come. My first PC was a Pentium 4 machine but when I upgraded to a C2D with the exact same configuration but a newer version of Windows it ran so much better. What amazing CPUs these were.
I had a Core 2 Quad Q8400 for 9 years and gave it to my brother for it's 10th year. He's recently moved on to a i5-6500 so he is very happy
Just the fact that this processor can actually fun modern games speaks volumes of the painfully slow pace of innovation in games technology. 12 years... Imagine a 2000 processor running 2012 games!
My 11 year old thinkpad R400s 2.26 ghz C2D still works wonders for normal use, been my school computer since I got it
775 was a great socket, that lasted long and gave lots of power for good prices. OC potential and lots of parts available.
The other great era in my top 3 was X58 i7 and then Sandy Bridge i7.
Very fun CPU's
I still have my old Dell Q6600 system that I picked up a few years back for free. I also have a Q9400 CPU just sat doing nothing in my box of PC bits. I loved the old Core2 Quads and the Q6600 really was something special for the time.
I actually got a Q9650 for cheap, so I have to say: there is a huge difference between different C2Qs. Some have 12MB of L2 cache, and some cope with only 4MB.
Fair well Socket 775! You will be missed.
RIP C2Q U WERE AN ABSOLUTE UNIT
Welp its time to upgrade, C2D E8300 was my first CPU, i played a lot of games with it, Crysis 2 , GTA V etc.
It was good times.
@RandomGaminginHd ,did u know the old phenom 2 cpus will play farcry 5 now . Enjoyed the Vid Thanks!
My eyes...my beautiful eyes!!!!! ;) But anyhoo, as a newer sub, I didn't know that a core 2 quad launched your channel. Cool.
I replaced my Q6600 with a Xeon E5450 not too long ago, make a video about how well(or not) 771 Xeons run on 775 boards with the adapter strip.
My main rig ran a Core 2 Extreme up until 2016 or so when I jumped to newer stuff. But even at that point, if I wasn't doing more demanding stuff like video editing I probably could've gotten even longer use out of it. It really impressed me how well it held up after I threw in a GTX 970 and ran things just fine afterwards.
I still got the old board collecting dust, eventually will turn it into a HTPC or NAS server or something. Wouldn't game on it, but thing can hold it's own in that regard still I'm sure.
My PC gaming journey started with a Q6600. Served me well over the years. Just traded up to a E-2690 and noticed about double the performance increase. For the price, it was well worth it.
That was my exact CPU that I used between 2012-2016 when I moved from my laptop to a real desktop. I paired it with an R7 200 series card in 2014 (can't remember what I used before, probably integrated graphics) and honestly I got very lackluster performance for it. I'm not sure if it was my ram (4 gb of ddr2) that was holding me back but FPS was completely random for me. L4D2 would run anywhere between 30-60fps at 720p and TF2 was similar with TONS of stutters on low. Emulated a lot of games on it though, Silent Hill 3 and God Hand were some games I remember very fondly.
Even though i upgraded the primary machine a long Time ago, i still have my Core2Quad Q9300 PC around. It was in a "permanent" use as a Gaming/Office PC as my secondary machine before it then got switched for a core i5 2300, which in turn got then became an i7 but i digress.
The Q9300 was my first Quad CPU and i was blown away by it's performance back then. Even though i could sell it, i can't bring myself to it.