RTX Graphics Card in a 15 Year Old Family PC...
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- Hello everyone and Welcome to another Budget Builds Episode where today we're taking a look at a 15 Year Old Family PC, but this time we're going to having a deep dive into what happens when you add an RTX Graphics Card with a C2Q from a 15 Year Old Family PC...Only one way to find out...
Intro - 0:00
The PC - 0:12
Installing it and PSU Concerns - 0:48
The PC Specs - 2:16
The Benchmarks! - 3:40
Comparison to Stock Specs - 10:11
Conclusion - 11:00
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Specs:
CPU: C2Q Q6600
GPU: RTX3050 8GB
RAM: 8GB DDR2 800Mhz - Věda a technologie
This man has as much RAM as VRAM. What a legend
Always split 8's
And? I have my first (1997) Socket 7 build still running with a 128MB ATI Radeon 9250 PCI! ...with 64MB SD RAM!
@@dallesamllhals9161 bro… why
@@asianflex ..'cause I'm OLDer than you?
C64? Amiga? ..move along kiddo!
@@dallesamllhals9161 Cool, you're old i guess. It's just a little odd that you have a computer that's 25 years old at this point, unless you planned on running retro games without having to do emulation that thing is practically e-waste. Also just saying c64 and amiga doesn't exactly give you any cred because those were both incredibly popular systems that most people that are interested in computers know about. That's like bragging you know about the atari 2600.
The fact that 15 years old CPU can even start modern games is quite remarkable if you ask me 🙂
That's thanks to the fact Intel didn't go balls on "Innovation" and obsolete the sandy bridge by 2014. Thanks to Intel, we can have this.
US$851 CPU at launch
its a quad core and still better than my potato i3 dual core
I have that same pc and im stuck gaming on it if i wanna play pc games but i have a series s
@@Nat3Dogg Play big triple A titles on your series s and use the PC to play older titles and indie games :)
It's more 12 years old 😉
I have used a Core2quad with DDR2 until 6 months ago. Its motherboard (P5Q-E) was from 2009. I had maxed out the RAM with 4x2GB. USB was still USB2 on the board, so I had to bring USB 3.0 with an addon card. Still, it has served us well for 12 years as the primary family PC (the last years with a modded xenon CPU) !
That was my first thought as well, but no, all of the components are now legit 15 years old!
Are u emotionally attached with that pc ?
@@sujitpachode3207 lol....hes gona run that computer into the ground. Til his stuff goes 1 frame per second.
I once tried playing warframe with a GTX 650 Ti on a q6600, the framerate was insufferable. All that changed when I replaced the whole rig with a Ryzen 5 1600 build. Aside from tweaking a few settings, it runed great. Next I tried my vega 56 on a q6600, even unigine failed to start LOL
the first problem was you trying to play Warframe...
@@VSEJakWojcik what's wrong with warframe?
@@lol123406 nothing literally it's an okay game i just wanted to make the joke before someone else
@@VSEJakWojcik warframe used to be fun
Running warframe on an off lease lenovo desktop from 2012 with a 1030 in. Warframe is like... amazingly optimized.
The devs are utter head up their own ass on player interaction but the optimization is pure fucking black magic.
Glad to see you back to uploading semi-regularly!
RTX Graphics Card still works in 2022
BBO living in opposite reality, where GPU are the cheapest PC component while everything else is expensive af
Well, I am surprised with this result. It's amazing that you managed to get some of these games working at all.
Personally, I'd just use the system as it was meant to be, leaving the 8GB DDR2 installed, and just using it for more retro games and operating systems.
I've got an old Dell Vostro (business version of the PC you featured) that I upgraded over the years. I used it for gaming as late as 2016 thanks to a Q9550, 8 GB of RAM, and a GTX 560 SC. That little PC kept me gaming for almost a decade, so I'd say the platform actually aged surprisingly well.
Some of the best value is to be had in taking a used business desktop and goosing it up with more RAM, SSD, better GPU.
@@dthatcher7 For my old Vostro, I actually bought that new and upgraded over the years (my parents were nervous about used computers back then, and I was in early high school so I went with whatever they'd let me get).
However, last year, I decided to do the whole "get an eBay Optiplex and throw in a graphics card" for my brother, so he and I could game together without dropping $1000 on a PC for him that he'll only use once a week when gaming with me. The "upgrade an office PC" strategy is GREAT for low budget gaming.
Ah, back in the days when Dell produced decent PC's.
Try to pair the CPU with 16 GB DDR3 mem, new RTX 4060 Ti
gaming machine, running all modern titles !
@@lucasrem I'd definitely run that experiment if anyone wants to provide an LGA 775 board that supports DDR3 and an RTX 4060 Ti! :P
Have you tried doing it with the pin covered in order to make the CPU go from 2.4GHz to 3GHz ? I don't think it would change much, but still, if you weren't already doing it, I think you might get slightly higher results
Valid since it is a free overclock lol
@@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap all, ALL LGA775 CPU's, on ALL mobos can use this pinmod.
@@operator8014 that's not true iirc some CPUs run in the higher frequency mode by default
@@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap thats true but you can look up schematic draw up your own voltage mod or etc etc counter the instability through hardware mods it is unruly but useful especially if you want to resell old pc with a bit more tolerable user experience. and the incompatibility issue just get good internet and use game streaming better than dealing with all the sse bullshit
people dont post the mods anymore cause its intellectual property blah blah but you can look up documents all you feel like and draw up your own mods based on diagrams and etc etc i can raise and lower voltage of the intel core 2 quads on any board even the hybrid ddr3 models. im on core 2 quad q6600 configured to 2.66 ghz through bios modification of the FSB speed and i am working on getting it stable past 3.0 ghz
I love this type of content, keep up the good work!
Love the vids as usual!
I thought 11:35 "thirst fought" was pretty funny
(Among the first ones). Pretty impressive at how GPUs now save that aging beast from being e-waste.
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I’ve really been digging these videos lately and binge watching them, love the content dude keep it up :)
Glad to see you upload regularly
I love your videos. It gives me a nostalgic feeling.
I still think no one should be running a core 2 quad in this day and age for gaming purposes, but I am interested to see your core 2 quad video to see how it fairs in 2022. A lot of channels have labeled it as a dead cpu for gaming wise.
My Q9650 still works fine, not great by any means, but still usable
The only CPU or GPU that is "dead" is the one that can't reasonably run the games you want to play. So "dead" is a relative term depending on what games interests you. My gaming interests span from Wolfenstein 3D for DOS and the original Tomb Raider for DOS, Duke Nukem Atomic for DOS to The Talos Principle, Path of Exile, Trine 1 to 4 series, The Room 1 to 4 series, Destiny 2, The Witcher, real Myst Masterpiece Edition, Hitman everything, etc.
So my CPUs range from Pentium III @1GHz on Socket 370 Soyo motherboard paired with Nvidia TNT2 M64 AGP4X to AMD Sempron 3100+ @1.8GHz Socket 754 on MSI-7142 motherboard paired with Chaintech GeForce FX-5200 AGP 8X card to Intel Core 2 Quad Q9660 @3.0GHz socket 775 on Gigabyte motherboard paired with MSI Nvidia GT-640 Afterburner in PCIe 2.0 slot. To AMD Ryzen 3 1200 @3.1GHz on Gigabyte B450 motherboard paired with Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX-570 4GB GDDR5 RAM. If the game interests me, I play it on whatever hardware provides best compatibility! Happy Gaming to you all.😊
jokes on you im still burning my core 2 duo and the gt210 for csgo but im on the lowest ranks but still really fun at 640x480
If I had an RTX card, I'd want to put it in my top-tier X58 platform, just for lulz. That triple-channel chipset configuration was no joke.
My Rampage III Formula board had a SATA 3 controller as well, so running an SSD vastly benefited performance over SATA 2.
It's an i7 990X-powered system with 24GB DDR3 (Mushkin RedLine 2133MHz kit) that I ran for ten solid years before upgrading to a(n) Z390/i7 9700K setup and 128GB DDR4 (G.Skill Trident Z Neo 3200MHz kit).
I feel like X58 was the bare minimum for decent semi-modern gaming; I had a Q6600 and a Phenom II 1100T system before my brief stint in 990FX and ultimate transition to X58. I was so sad when they could no longer seem to keep up (or keep cool trying).
I now have two Z390 systems and one X58. All GTX-powered: ROG Poseidon 1080Ti ($550), ROG Poseidon 980Ti ($350), EVGA 980Ti SC2 ($150). People used to joke about how I never sold my old graphics cards and had so many lying around; now that the GPU market is what it is, I'm finally having a laugh.
I'm also building a Ryzen 7 5800x system on a budget right now, and the 980Ti SC2 will be going in that; the X58 will be getting its original Strix R9 380-OC back, now that the die-temps are no longer giving off "Chernobyl fuel-rod surface-temp." readings after receiving a full teardown and service.
This was fun to watch, tho. I kinda wanted to do an old Core 2 build for nostalgia' sake and this totally reminded me why that was a bad idea. Thanks for posting!
yeah would be nice with more 3-4 channel systems but naah we get 2..
128gb of RAM with an i7-9700k system? I thought my 32gb of RAM was overkill.
@@pengu6335 "I paid for 4 slots, I'm using all of 4 slots, and damn the expense!"
It was actually a really good deal at the time. I've never owned anything over 32GB prior.
I wanted 64GB (4x16GB) originally, but I saw the discount sticker on the 128GB (4x32GB) kit and knew it was then or never.
Came in really handy when I didn't have any spare modules for the portable ITX when I built it; split it 64GB and 64GB until I got 16GB DDR4 4000 (Balistix Max RGB) for $80 at Micro Center around the holidays.
You see it as overkill; Chrome sees it as "more food". lol
Now this is content. Thank you for your service, Budgeful Bill.
Hey ! I just noticed I have the same TV as you
Aside from that, that is a great video, as always ! Keep it up !
Frankenstein PC builds are amazing!
what i always found odd is how hyped the C2Q 6600 is, when there is a cheaper, faster and more modern variant for the same socket called the C2Q 8400
it still overclocks just as good too, so really no reason to get a 6600 instead of the 8400
not to mention the 8400 has newer SSE instructions, making more stuff work on it
not to forget core 2 quads were the best cpus from 2006 and 2007 apart from phenom
There is a two year gap in release date.
@@TrantaLocked yea? people reccomended the Q6600 in 2013 still for budget gaming
the Q8400 was long out and *still* the cheaper option at that point, as noone was hyping it up
@@Space_Reptile I only hear people mention the Q6600 in terms of it being popular in the day which is why it gets mentioned so much. Never would I see someone recommend buying anything other than a Q8000 or Q9000 series after 2010. I see these as separate conversations.
I've always been fond of the C2Q 6600 because the school I went to bought a bunch of second-hand office PCs that had the 6600 in them. Nostalgic CPU for me.
Can’t wait my grandpa gave me the same pc and I want to make a sleeper build in his honor,He owned a antique business as well as a fisherman,sadly passed away 2020 ,Before he passed he gave me a computer tool kit,I went to tech school and never went through with it ,And gave me the story of the tools 2 days before he passed away this is inspiring.Thank you
wow such a experiment experience nice to share..
When I upgraded my old AMD FX-4100 computer with an NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti, I quickly realized that the CPU was the bottleneck. Ooh boy, that was fun. But I was able to play Doom 2016 on medium or high settings in 1080p with playable framerate back in the day, so I can't complain. I bet the 1050 Ti can still be useful as I wait out the GPU apocalypse with a better CPU, mobo, SSD, and RAM.
People often underestimate how much having a slower cpu can negatively impact gaming performance.👍
Phenom II 1100t@4GHz and GTX 970 here :-P
"People often underestimate how much having a slower cpu can negatively impact gaming performance.👍" And YOU know that 'cause you tried it? Hmmm...
I got the fx 4100 before and I oc it to 4.7ghz at around 1.45v, works a lot better than original but it bottleneck the 6700xt a lot lol
@@paub5100 If I had a better board and cooler for it, I would have tried to OC it. But honestly, I'm just glad my buddy gave me the processor and some entry level Gigabyte mATX thing lol. It served its purpose well. Time to buy a proper setup now.
@@Ricelord4 the fx4100 can easily oc to 4.5ghz with stock cooler and the performance gain is very obvious too
I'm so happy you have started to upload semi regularly, considering you are one of the best tech channels out there.
C0w0rrado video when?
Great video Budget Builds! I tried this as well, I put a RTX 3060 in a machine with a Core2 Duo E8500, then proceeded to try to use it for a month. It worked okay actually, though it could use 2 more cores. I will be sticking a Core2 Quad in it, sometime in the future, to try it out again. It is a pretty solid pc, even 15 years after it cam out.
Also, on the E8500 I was able to get BeamNG to get 30-40fps on high settings, with a few turned down. If you want I can find the notes I put down, when I went threw all the settings to see what is cpu and gpu intense. I think it was the mesh quality, and the shadows that really hit the fps.
I tend to be extremely picky about who I subscribe to, and you've always been one of my go to content creators. Humble, knowledgeable, relaxing, casual, I love it. Keep doing what you're doing and know that you bring alot of joy to people like me :) May your mug always be piping hot and full my friend!
The Core2Quad was an absolute beast back then. Aaah, good times.
I still use them on old 775 boards, only new RTX cards or GTX 1080 card.
they do run all modern titles on 1080p 60 FPS
This was really well done! It's nice to see someone who has some knowledge of older and newer hardware. A lot of youtubers kind of drop the ball and can't identify anything more than 10 years old. Can you post the model of that PC's motherboard? Most of those Vista-era Dell Inspiron systems (like the 530) I have come across could support any Core 2 CPU with two cores, but quad cores were off limits. If that thing can support Core 2 Quads it must have the G33M03 motherboard (I had to Google this as It was long forgotten information for me), so I'd be curious as to how it'd run with a newer CPU or with a pad-modded Socket 771 Xeon. The Q6600's anemic 2.4Ghz clock speed and 1066Mhz BUS are pretty limiting compared to the higher clock, BUS and cache on a Q9550, Q9650, Xeon X3370, Xeon E5450 etc.
he needs the DDR 3 boards for the old Core CPU !
Q9650 here, on new RTX card ! 1080p@60 FTS !
Love the video. The 2/3/4tth gen Intel i5s are the CPUs which you could actually pair with the card and see great performance. You can easily pick up whole builds in the £50-£80 price range.
I have exactly the same PC under my desk as a games PC and I will be very interested to hear about your updates. I got my quad for the same price as you because of a poor eBay listing. Loved the video as ever.
I also got Cyberpunk working on a Q8400 with a patch... Runs at 5-15fps depending on location lol 😂but in more sensible games the Core 2 Quads actually do very well, you can play a lot of older and simpler games on it at a stable 60+fps. They're still great for web browsing, word processing, 1440p youtube is also possible (4k struggles). Still capable and cheap.
My ryzen processor died when I am waiting for my replacement processor to arrive I paired a gtx 960 with a q6600 gta 5 occasional stutter but its playable with lower settings and to my surprise the dx11 perform less stutter than the other dx version the fps is about 50 with 1080p low I found an 8gb ddr3 paired with g41 and locked 50 hz and disabled some settings in documents I managed to play and got a decent experience those days , After ryzen arrives it's a new experience .
I've found the very best of this video when reaching the conclusion. Nope, it's not the PC, not even the GPU. Let's just say it's Mr. Budget-Builds best four-leg friend.
Amazing combo. :D
This reminds of the old days of graphics accelerators when some people realized that upgrading from a Voodoo 1 to a Voodoo 2 wouldn't be a huge boost in performance, they had to upgrade the rest of the system to get the best of it. Very good video btw, this is something no one else would ever test.
This takes me back to being a teenager and the family computer was terrible, it had the worst gfx card they could get away with putting in and telling my dad it was a gaming pc, i then took on a few jobs and saved every penny i could and eventually got a midrange for the time gfx card, then i learned that the cpu was weak... and the ram was slow.... and the list went on ahhh memories lol, im so pleased time pc went out of business
Graphics cards have always been a source of lies and deception, especially when you don't know and better, and are not looking to spend a fortune.
I remember getting fleeced on a laptop I bought... Saved up some extra money to get one with a 3d graphics card so I could at least play some light 3d games if I wanted to (although I was never much of a gamer). I plunked down $1500 of my hard earned money on a laptop with "3d graphics" only to find out it was not 3d, just some bullshit "neomagic" (the maker of the graphics chip) made up.
So I was stuck with a standard graphics card again (only worse because it shared system ram).
@@volvo09 I remember getting an HP or Gateway laptop with the Nvidia 7150M GPU....emphasis on "M". Ugh. Never again. I swore off laptops for quite a while after that.
Be glad that this PC even booted up with this card. Most of newer RTX card don't have Legacy VBiOS, which I learned hard way, and there were very, very few LGA 775 and 771 boards which actually supported UEFI. Core2 aside, I have hit a wall running with newer X58-based (LGA 1366) system which was also Legacy-only and EVGA's RTX 2070 which lacked support for it. I have Xeon dual CPU boards that support UEFI, but there are several bugs (like I have to manually install OS on another PC and add boot path manually in setup later), first platform with proper UEFI support was Sandy Bridge, no idea on AMD.
Great video. I've got my old Q6600 as a key ring on my keys. I had two Q6600's. One in a Dell XPS 420 paired with a 8600 GTS. Then later on, one in some Aldi Medion machine. Paired with a 9600GT but I pulled that out and put s GtX 460 in.
this video is basically an alternate universe where GPU's are everywhere and CPU's are sold out and non existant 😂
Your biggest limitations here won't be the age of the processor, but rather the PCIe generation. I imagine it's gen 2, so the cpu is probably working itself to death trying to feed the gpu through that slot. A faster cpu might help, but I reckon the pcie slot bandwidth is the problem here.
Re: newer games on older cpus; it's worth noting that some older cpus simply don't have the instruction sets used by some newer software. It'll either work, or it'll be broken.
No, it's the CPU. The CPU doesn't work harder if the PCIe bus is bandwidth limited. That's not how it works. It sends the SAME commands through the PCIe bus and the bus is either too slow or it's not. It's pretty much certain the CPU is the bottleneck.
@@photonboy999 Not really. If the bandwidth is smaller, the cpu has to queue up the data while it waits for it to be pushed through the pcie bus. There isn't an infinite amount of cache available, so the cpu will be constantly shifting they data around between caches and memory until its ready to go. The cpu is definitely a weak point, but not as weak as it seems, given the extra overhead its incurring managing the pcie bus.
This video is everything an average GPU giveaway winner would love to see :D
Haha nice try with the rtx. I have something of the sort planned in a backlog of all the video ideas, but with a not so old system. Nice video as usual.
I expected this to be an insane bottleneck. I did not expect the games to run as well as they did, not to say that they performed well, but the fact that you were able to run RDR2 for example is impressive. Still, in terms of practical purposes this should never be done unless the whole system is upgraded.
When I ran Red Dead on my Acer Nitro 5 (Core i5, GTX 1050, 8GB RAM) it lagged so hard I had to hold the power button and shut it off because I couldn't open task manager.
@@flying_Night_slasher I have a modern $4000 gaming laptop and I still have to hold down my power button when occasionally, GTA V decides to randomly crash, for whatever reason, crashing so hard that it brings Windows down with it.
Why? I plan to keep my ryzen 1800x and put a rtx 5090 ti with it. Despite people saying bottleneck, i would play at 4k60 ultra and VR 8k60 the cpu should be fine. Currently even in msfs2020 my cpu (6.5 years old) is not use more than 20-30% at 1440p, and i get 45/59 fps at high end at 1440p with my 6.5 years old gtx 1080ti.
Q6600 is a Beast... Cmon just think about it... The thought of using a 15 year old CPU to even just boot the latest windows let alone gaming is crazy. Like back when it came out if you tried to run an operating system let alone gaming on a then 15 year old cpu would sound like witchcraft lol
..used a Phenom 9850@3GHz until late 2019!
It's nice to see videos with older hardware. I wonder how would that card would pair with an FX8320.
That Astra g gameplay looks pretty good for an older game
I can't find anything about this game at all!!! It looked to me like metropolis Street racer on the dreamcast? Do you have any information on this game?
@@kristianity77 sadly I don't
This is something I would make an attempt at if i had the regular sized version of my current machine instead of the small formfactor variant. (It's got an i5 in it but uuuh... I dunno what gen beyond 'OLD.) and 8 gigs of ram (max of 16.)
For pretty much the same reasons to: 'It's dumb.... so le'ts see if we can make it EVEN DUMBER.'
You can buy a regular sized case and move the motherboard in
Q6600 crew here. Loved that fella. Played GTA IV on that thing.
Those Masterchef outcomes, are [absolute] top corner
FH4/5 requires SSE4.1 support, so you need a Q9650 CPU, otherwise Q6600 won't work.
If you want to have a cheaper CPU with SSE4.1 support, and you can get a Q8300.
I’ll have to try it on my core 2 quad q9550.
@@EvilTurkeySlices It worked well with my X5450 (modded BIOS, equal performance as Q9650) just anything Q9xxx series, E/X54xx series that allows to play it modern games with SSE4.1 support. (If you ask me, "what about dual-cores?" It's painful enough to suffer or game wouldn't boot or in-game)
@@Jenci dual cores are great for gaming around the time the systems came out. A windows XP or Vista build will perform way faster with a high even core 2 duo over a quad.
Love that Master Chef collection... 😂
This brings me back to 2 years ago when I finally upgraded from my old q8400 to my ryzen 5 1500.
Was listening to audio only, and “Gregg Wallace’s favourite masterchef collection” reference made me actually try to look up the game…
An Inspiron 530 with a Core 2 Quad was my first modern PC of my own back in the day. Threw in an 8800 GT and it made a great little gaming machine!
I have a completely overkill PC from 2007: Bi-Xeon 5460 with 32go of Ram DDR2 667Mhz.
It's fun to test so old hardware theses days :)
love my q6600 with pin mod! It is my main pc at work - in use daily- now with 8 gig, ssd and gtx1650 (single slot, because dell) 😁
Currently still using a Core 2 Quad Q9650 @ 3.00GHz, on a Gigabyte EP35-DS3R motherboard, with 8GB (4x2GB) of G.Skill DDR2 1000 5-5-5-15 memory, and a 2GB EVGA 750 Ti SC (with optional extra circuit board EVGA backplate), along with a Sound Blaster Audigy SB0090, dual booting between XP Pro 32-bit and 8.1 Pro 64-bit (plus ClassicShell Start menu).
With SanDisk X400 boot SSDs & WD Black data HDDs, it makes for quite a nice retro build and everyday system, especially with it supporting more recent SSE 4.1 instructions that the Q6600 lacks.
Love watching these old boxes pushed.
I tried a Q9650 with a gtx 1070. And although it has clear bottlenecks, it... did work! i was losing around 25-35% performance but it worked!
you were losing more than that
Ah, the good old Q6600. I built my first high-end gaming rig with it and an GeForce 8800GTX GPU. Was a monster of a system back in the day.
It's somewhat suprising that such an old chip can still run some of the latest games.
In 2019 I played Metro Exodus on a beast from 2008: Asus P5Q deluxe, 8GB DDR2@1066 and a Q9550 OC'd to 3.2GHz. Video card? GTX1060 6GB. The game ran smooth at 1080p with some things turned down of course. It was perfectly playable, and the graphics were stunning although you could feel it struggle under all that load. It is interesting to see how demanding the games became mostly on the graphical side. The 2008 hardware(CPU and RAM) was good enough to play the game, but try even a HD4870 X2 and it would struggle .
The weirdest idea ever. I loved it!
C2Q Q6600 was a great chip back in the day. I've just stuck the same rtx 3050 into my son's rig... he's running my old i5 4690k in a z97 board.... it upgraded a 1050ti it's definitely better but not night and day. Even in that rig I'm noticing the CPU is a bit of a bottleneck now but it does run well if you turn down the settings a bit. He usually gets my hand me downs so might have to wait a bit till I upgrade my board/CPU next .... unless I can find a cheap 2nd hand update to some slightly new gen stuff.
Mmmmmmmm Metropolis Street Racing. Now that's a throwback.
You gave that thing a better GPU than what's in my 11700k build...
I guess it's time to upgrade my XP Core 2 Quad gaming PC with a new graphics card! Amusing stuff, thank you
This is more impressive than I thought it would be
The Kotor music earned an instant like from me!
I'd love to see you throw some titles from the era at that rig with the RTX card. Things like Fallout 3 (perhaps with a HD texture pack mod), Warhammer 40k Dawn of War, and so on.
Still, very interesting that it can run some current games with a bit of tweaking!
Good stuff all around
The kotor cantina music hits different when watching :D
It still amazes me that my x5650 from a similar timeframe is still going strong as my main rig. 6 core 12 thread at 4.3ghz though.
I had this exact tower with the monitor and everything, sold it back in 2014 for $70 it also had the first few generations of LCD monitors with it, they were decent upon release but very heavy, LEDs blew everything out of the water as far as LCD's go only a few years later.
It would be interesting upgrading it with a late LGA771 modded xeon, if the motherboard supports it, you should have a quite nice performance uplift
As per similar comments. With very little effort back in the day I used to have this CPU running at 3.4Ghz with pretty substantial aftermarket air cooler. I'd be interested to see, if you've got an overclocking motherboard whether overclocking the CPU in conjunction with some good RAM and an SSD could improve the benchmarks much. It might alleviate the CPU bottleneck to some degree.
wow i cant believe it, it runs so well
I used to modify Asus P5Q series mainboard BIOS files back in the day and put them on xtremesystems so if you want to give that old 6600 system some retro upgrades grab a P5Q Pro or P5Q Deluxe, add the modded BIOS, locate 2x4GB PC8500, chuck in a SSD and you'll be surprised just how fast those old systems can still be with a CPU overclock and a modern GPU.
I was hoping to see Forza Horizon 5 running... Better luck next time! Thanks for the video!
There is still more performance to be had on this thing by either BSEL tape modding the Q6600 to run with 1333Mhz FSB, or upgrading to a Q9650, as from what i've read the Inspiron 530 supports 1333Mhz FSB. From my experience with an OptiPlex 755 with Xeon X3363 (~Q9550) and 1050 Ti, it pairs much more evenly than what's demostrated here!
Lmao I love this. I just recently turned out old pentium 4 PC into a NAS just for fun. The pentium 4 was hot and hungry, but it's not on all the time. Whenever I want to back up photos from my phone is what I really intend it for. Maybe I'll even do a PC backup on it.
I'm surprised that newer games work on that core 2 quad love your videos
This video is helping me decide if I want to put a 40 series in my 5 year old PC, the CPU is 6 cores, 12 threads at 5 GHz and I don't remember what chipset. Memory is quite good as well. The only downfall is a 1060, I want to play games in 4K like a crazy person
q6600 was my first quad core. I had a good one too. Was able to push it to 3.2ghz. I forget what card I put in it. I think it was the Geforce 9800gt. It also was a Dell in the same case.
Good video. Add a better psu and BSEL mod the Q6600 for 25% more performance.
I gamed with my qx6700 overclocked to 3.5ghz with a pair of crossfired over clocked gigabyte 6950s on a triple screen 1440x900 setup up until last year. Now I'm thinking it may make for a great dedicated server for a few of my favorite games since it's just sitting in storage doing nothing these days.
This goes to show the even a 15 year old pc can run modern games if you buff up the graphics card a bit. A Masterpiece in my opinion. 👍👍👍
Yes this right here is exactly what i wanted
I had a 10k drive back in the day, was a nice drive but man so loud.
I remember moving from a Core 2 Duo to an i7 920 OC'd to 3.2+ ghz for its entire lifespan.... Still have the chip and the motherboard kicking around but not in service as of last year. :D
My core 2 quad I built with 8gb ram from day one. I knew I'd need it. But I can tell you right now a velocaraptor hard drive doesn't come close to SSD speeds. I had 2 of them in RAID 0. When I replaced my system with an I7-2600 + samsung 830 back in 2011, I noticed a HUGE increase in speed of the storage over an effective 20k hard drive set.
Complete madlad
You should look into upgrading a Dell Optiplex 780. Those motherboards take Core 2 Quads up to Q9650, can use up to 16GB of DDR3 RAM and have a PCI Express 2.0 slot. I've long been curious just how far you could push a configuration like that.
hehe, i have several of that range of units. two of the white ones, one same as yours, and the lesser one that couldn't take greater than core 2 duo, was also an inspiron just with a lesser board. then i have a few of the black ones, identical case, just black, and similar time and components, tend to be vostro named though. pretty solid and awesome for their time. the ones right after it looked much cooler though.
Nice, I ran an RX 550 & an RX 480 8gb both in a Core 2 Quad Q9650 & a 1050ti as well in another 2 Core 2 systems. Was quite surprised
Great gpu kard!!
Love the music.
I actually found a similar pc at a thrift store recebtly. An inspiron 570 with 16 gigs of gskill, and an actual gtx 960 oc for 6 bucks.
this happens alot more than people think, i had something similar but not as bad with a 1080 in a 2011 best buy computer. Im still using that same 1080 in a new pc i built and i swear its performance has doubled just by slapping it into an actual gaming pc. I cant imagine how insane gaming would be if i had a 3000 series card in here.
Never thought you’re ever gonna try something like this