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A great old CPU, it will bring new life to the socket 775 systems struggling on core two duos. It is very much in it's twilight years, but will still handle esports titles at 720p and 1080p on low/medium settings. Socket 1155 intel chips like the i5 2400 are the newer q6600s, so if you're looking for a long lasting system get one of those, but the q6600 will surprise you.
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eBay wrote: - Why you bought it I'm working on a benchmarking project with the end goal of writing an article for tomshardware.com. The focus is on whether or not replacing an older PC's gfx card with a newer model is worthwhile, as opposed to adding a 2nd card for SLI/CF, given the nature of the user's intended tasks and other aspects of the PC hw config. Hence, I've been trying to obtain a cross section of CPUs for a range of motherboards from the AM2/S775 era (AMD/SLI, AMD/CF, Intel/SLI, Intel/CF. This Q6600 CPU was very popular when S775 was current and is a good choice for S775 boards as it performs well at stock speed yet also oc's nicely. - What you like most about it Pretty quick, especially when oc'd. I specifically chose the G0 stepping to ensure the best chance of a good oc. - What you dislike about it The default clock is a tad low which affects single-threaded apps, but since it oc's so well this isn't too bad really. - Whether or not you would buy the product again Certainly, though the prices people are willing to pay for used Q6600s are a bit crazy really. I wanted one for benchmarking, but if I was looking for a quad core for real use then other options make much more sense from a value perspective, such as an Athlon II X4, Phenom II X4, or various S1155/1156 options. Ian.Read full review
Old but stable and one of Intel's stars. PII, P4, E6600 and Q6600 afaik is their top ones so far. The one ordered runs really cool, a similar one purchased from another location ran alot hotter even though it also supposedly was a SLACR stepping model. I haven't OC'd it yet but will likely do eventually and raise it to either 3 or 3.2 to get that extra which is supposedly easy with these. It's easy to install as most processors - the amount of possible trouble during installation depends more on the chassi and MB than anything else unless u want to grind down the top to gain a smaller heat and thereby efficiency advantage.
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It's been five years since I changed my CPU - a 3GHz Pentium 4 - and the time of the year when I put togehter all the photos and videos of the year was approaching (that's right: December). When I start of the full HD rendering of my movies it's time to leave the PC alone as it would not be able to do anything else. So, with lots of videos to be collated, and as my christmas present, I maxed out my motherboard by getting a Core 2 Quad CPU. I was skeptic with the downgrade from 3.0GHz to 2.4GHz but online reviews reassured me. A Breeze! Not only I can render a movie and still use the PC BUT I can even render TWO movies at the same time! Awesome.
This processor is one of the most cost effective upgrades you can make to an ageing desktop PC. I used mine to upgrade a Dell OptiPlex 745 from a Pentium D 3.0GHz up to this Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz. The Dell manual does not include this CPU in it's list of approved upgrades, but from reading a few online forums it was apparent that with the latest BIOS version 2.6.4 the motherboard accepts this processor and runs it perfectly well. There is also no need to upgrade the existing heat sink and fan arrangement. This improved the windows aero rating for the processor from 4.7 to 7.1 running 64 bit Windows 7. For less than £20 my customer now has a desktop PC which can cope seamlessly with most modern software packages.
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