Had mine doing 3.8 for a while too

I still have a Q6600 and a Q6700 extreme with numerous socket 775 boards. Also several Core2Duos and a couple of Xeon 5450s. The Xeons were actually socket 774 but you could place a sticker on the bottom to cover a couple of the pins, then rotate it through 90 degress and put them in some socket 775 boards. The Xeons were good overclockers even back then. These older platfoms were a lot of fun.

@@arneernestbirch9142 reminds me of my e8400 I had at 4ghz for a while. Back in its prime it was such a good chip

@@ants9230 lga 771 were those xeons

@@danielkarpati3196 You're absolutely correct. I remember cutting the locating lugs from the CPU socket with a scalpel so the CPU would fit.

Yeah and it has more cash memory.

😒👍 Keep It Old School

I did a little magic trick there and said 'one of' :P

@@techyescity Can you test a Q9650 some time in the future. They have 12 cash memory.

⁠@@corneliusantonius31089550s better buys the q9650s still go for like 40$ on eBay the 9550s still have 12mb of cache and go for 5$

😂

🙂 its the fault of the people that creates the game engines, alot of game developers dont have a choice, some developers are diehard for unreal some prefer unity

Thank Microsoft for insisting on SSE 4.2 & above for Windows 11 24H2 development, then having everything and everyone else have to change up to the same compiler. Q9650 does sad face with SSE 4.1. Then relives the good times with Crysis for happy face.

4790K is the best value for money cpu potentially ever though, put a GTX 1080 in there and you can still play every single game on max settings with 60-120+FPS (32 inch 1080P monitor personal experience)

Haswell, especially at the high-end, was a great architecture. Supports PCIe Gen3, USB 3.0, up to 32GB DDR3, some of the more modern instruction sets etc. I use my 4770K in a HTPC with Linux and it will probably be "good enough" for the next 10 years or so

Same with an e6750. It was better at games back then due to most being single threaded and the dual cores of the time had better single thread performance than the quad.

I still have a Core 2 Duo, in my old Mac Mini. I use it to run an old version of Garage Band with my USB M-Audio keyboard.

Had and still own an E6600 tho these days its on display

I ran the best core 2 duo the e8600 for about a month back in like 2018. It was pretty useable still back then, but I imagine it would be a way worse experience now.

@@bhume7535 Computation and clock speed is probably sufficient but its not going to support the api and other standards required for modern programs like avx and such.

"Silicon" lane for CPUs. "Silicone" lane is OF content. 😏

Sadly it does

2008 was a really good year for me as well, best year at my job I used to enjoy working at. It doesn't feel that long ago at all.

The older you get, the faster it flies. It's a genuine biological shift in the perception of passing time. To cunter the effect, it helps to do things which are distinctive, unique, etc. The more routine the days, the less there is to help distintinguish one week from any other, in which case they'll blend together into a mush. Special events help bookmark our memories - birthdays, holidays, memorable nights out with friends, weeknds away with a partner, a Saturday visit to a museum & cafe, etc. Living a more rural life also helps, for various reasons. This is why children and teenagers really do perceive long summer days as seemingly lasting forever; they get bored easily, because to them the hours genuinely pass slower than for their parents who instead become frustrated at what they can't avoid perceiving as time and opprtunity being wasted, time their offspring could use to do something productive. For parents in their 50s inparticular, time can seem to pass a lot faster once their children have grown up and left home, begun college/uni or started a job, or moved into their own flat, etc., as then many of the memorable annual markers are no longer present. This is also why financial advisors warn those in their late 50s who are contemplating early retirement to consider carefully how they will spend their days. Many find that the lack of their former daily work routine can leave a huge hole in their lives, they don't know what to do with the time they suddenly have available, which can have knockon effects such as depression, weight gain, etc. They wake up at the same time as they always have, 7am or whatever, often it can be so ingrained after many years; and then what? Winters can be especially bad, the lack of daylight yet being awake. It can be worse if career and hobbies overlapped, as the pressure of the former often helped drive the latter; enthusiasm for long held hobbies can fade. I recommend the video series, "Iron Age Man - the John Rossetti interview by Lindybeige", find the playlist. John mentions several times how the slower pace of Iron Age life seemed to make the days last longer, while his eventual return to urban life (covered in the final video) was a considerable shock, what he perceived as the crazy pace everyone around him was living. Makes me wonder whether those who lived long ago, despite typically lower biological lifespans, may have actually had longer perceived lifespans than modern urban dwellers, which if so would be a supreme irony.

hopefully you got other uses for dual xeon because gaming doesnt use 10 cores let alone 20.

the extreme chip is a power hungry heat generator the non extreme chip is way more efficient, has a longer lifespan because it isnt using high voltage and can even overclock easier than the x. especially on air because it uses less voltage. the xtreme is only useful if you want to put ln2 on it and try to beat old records.

I have an old core 2 quad system that runs XP for retro gaming, but the board I have has 16gb ddr3 vs ddr2. It was a later board as the first core i7 CPUs came out not long after.

What Gpu did u pair it with

It's worth noting that the Core 2 Quad isn't a "true" quad core, it's apparently just two dual-core processors stuck together from memory

@@burrfoottopknot And also we can say first true quad core was AMD Phenom(Phenom X4 9500 and Phenom X4 9600), not any from Intel lineup

Damn had my GTX280 until I’ve got a GTX980 at realise I did love the 280 Played Crysis 2 on High 60fps

Oh yeah I forgot about that! lol

@@techyescity not sure how well windows 10 would run on such old system since it's a heavy os and the cpu is old . Windows 7 works good and the cpu can run older games,old call of duty games,metro 2033 and last light even . There are some newer games that are light and can run on these old cpu's too ,but age catches on eventually . Oh and that POPCNT error 🤣 Didn't see that coming at all neither from the cpu nor from you 🤣🤣🤣

​@@danielivanov930windows 10 will be dreadful I think. My old FX system barely likes windows 10 😂. After making a custom image and deleting a lot of the bloat it definitely helps. I even debloated my windows image on my new am5 system 😂

The tape trick takes a 1066FSB CPU up to 1333FSB. The Q9400 is already a 1333FSB CPU, so it won't do anything

@@danielivanov930 lol the POPCNT error :P, as for windows 7 definitely will have to make an install of it. I forgot if 8.1 can be made to be lighter than 7? all brings back memories.

Took me a while to get it but by George, it's funny 😂😂😂

Welcome to Australia! Home of some of the most deadly house spiders on the planet.

Windows? Why not try Batocera?

Good thing about the last q2q-s (q9*50) is that they have sse 4.1 and 12mb l2. With a good mobo (p45, x48, nforce chipset) and cooling you can push these chips pretty far.

Nice error :D

Heh heh.. I was the first kid on the block with a 386.. (parents died and left me a house.. lol) Even had 16MB's of ram !!!!! .. Those were the days..

P4 where single or dual cores CPUs unless u had a dual socket Xeon system

@@thomasdorey3296Yes your right! Thinking about it I'm totally wrong, I'm getting the hyperthreading mixed up! Need more coffee.

@@thomasdorey3296 And the dual core P4's were Pentium D

​@@PaulaXism Building system back then was more excited for sure, 386 is a little before my time :P, (think i was still in atari st territory) my 1st pc was 133mhz Pentium, I remember all the jumpers etc having to be set for processors and all the IQR conflicts

I tried SetFSB software at the time, but switched to the BSEL (tape) mod as SetFSB configuration had to be redone after every power down. That program had a drop down menu, which listed the model number corresponding to a specific chip on the motherboard. My DELL motherboard worked with one of those presets. One would have to locate the relevant chip to find the right model number and then configure the program by selecting that model from the drop-down menu. I stopped using SetFSB as the BSEL mod only had to be done once...and the OC was more substantial.

Yes, in 2007

DFI were the dogs back then.

We have a similar hardware history. I ran a DFI LanParty NF4 SLI-DR Expert with an X2 3800+ @ 2.6GHz, but retired that build with an Opteron 170 @ 3.1GHz. Also swapped out a Q6600 @ 3.7GHz for a Xeon X3360 @ 4.3GHz near the end of the LGA775 era, and ran all my chips on custom water since 2004 (still using the same 19 year old D5 pump in my current build). The Xeon only benched about 15% better than the Q6600 but it was upwards of 20% faster in games, the extra cache helped it a lot in games apparently. I always enjoyed the people commenting on both my Opteron and Xeon builds "why are you using server CPUs to game? Server chips don't run games well." then getting angry and calling BS when they realize my "server CPU" was putting out higher FPS than their "gaming CPU." lol Good times.

aside from the heatpipe snakes, I really don't miss LGA775 lol

I've tried Intel SDE on LGA1366 to run things that requires AVX but it's extremely slow since it emulates even the instructions that the CPU supports. Is there some way to make it emulate only the instruction sets the CPU doesn't have?

just wait until a Windows 11 update from Microsoft requires POPCNT or SSE 4.2, or AVX... then BAM... ISSUES. Seriously, with hardware this old, I don't understand why you wouldn't just run (some stable, unexciting version of) Linux. That's all you need for internet/KZfaq. Actually it'll do a whole lot more, but honestly, why Windows 11 on such an old platform? You're just waiting for it to be patched to obsolescence. Same would apply for rolling-release distros (which I'm running, but on hardware that is a lot newer (Haswell) so I'm not worried).

That was an absolute unit of a chip when released.

@@christophermullins7163 Yeah, the Optiplex is similar to Brian's, but I also have an old Gigabyte 775 DDR3 board. Will probably transfer it there. Fun to play with old stuff. Makes you appreciate the advancements more.