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Those black slots are Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) slots. It is a 16-bit bus (AKA AT bus) backward compatible with the 8-bit bus (AKA PC bus). Which could support up to six devices and had operating speeds of Half-duplex 8MBps or 16MBps. Vying for a 32-bit bus, an extended version (EISA) was created; and while seeing some success in the server market it was later replaced by the emergence and adoption of the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus, the predecessor of the PCIe bus we all know and love today.

Had the Q6600. It was quiet powerful for an old CPU.

Used to have this exact CPU back in 2010/2011, on a DFI LanParty P45, overclocked at a pretty good 4.2 ghz, with the same 8gb of ddr2, and an SLI of GTX460. That combo could run Crysis 2 in Ultra DX11 and with HD textures at 60+ fps at 1080p, and Battlefield 3 on Ultra 1080p at over 80-90 fps and I was feeling like a king with that setup back then! I eventually switched to the sandy bridge platform with an i7 2600K in 2012, then upgraded the gpu part to a GTX780 Ti in 2013. Good times man.

Love how the processor at 100% doesn't get more than 50°C

It’s a ISA slot. Was before PCI and was around with the AGP GPU slot

This video brings back memories. We had a family computer bought in 2009 with a similar CPU. I then got it as my first very own PC in 2012. I finished the Witcher on my Q6600 back in 2015 I then proceeded to buy a Ryzen in 2017. I pushed that CPU very far. Even overclocking it with duct tape. I still loved it even through all the crashes and fps drops. And it still runs. As a TV PC in our home

Average prebuild PC:

Legit had that exact CPU, motherboard, & cooling combo back in 2008. Had my Q9550 overclocked to a modest 3.7ghz paired up with the ATI Radeon 4870. Served me well for quite a while. Good times. Makes me feel old now turning 36 soon.

The development from 2009 -> 2011 was extreme - Opens you up to stuff like the i7 3930K which still holds it own at 11 years old Would love to see a follow-up with some of the first 6-cores. I'm actually still using mine with a 2070 Super

I remember building my first custom watercooled loop with a Q6600 overclocked at 4ghz and HD4890 overclocked at 1ghz stable. The watercool loop cost me the same as the total cost of all other components in the system, but It was the first 4ghz q6600 i've seen. After that I got the Phenom II 1040T which was a rebadged 1100T ... ohh the good times. Also you can probably overclock that CPU to 3.6 - 3.8ghz with the Zalman Cooler and that's like 30% more performance. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!

This video really demonstrates just how important the CPU is. You can cheap out on it up to a certain point but your still gonna need something relatively modern with high clock speed and core count with modern instructions like AVX2. In order to just boot some games.

6:44 Those are ISA expansion slots. Those came way before the PCI slots and the AGP expansion slots. At the time of that motherboard, those ISA slots were probably used only for compatibility with Legacy Devices. Oh the 90's, how much we miss ya :)

Dude, you made me shed man tears. Since I turned 31 this year, this vid is like a Time Machine

Man that takes me back, I had that exact cooler on my first PC as well.

I REALLY wish you guys could have put more RAM back in because I am absolutely certain that all that hitching you were experiencing was from your memory being maxed out and running into pagefile swapping. I bet you could have had an actually pretty solid experience on this rig with 4GB alone, nevermind 8. Also, 2.9Ghz is a breeze for this chip! My Q6600 ran at 3.6Ghz no problem! This thing should have been overclocked to at least that much, which would have had a massive impact on performance. Come on guys, this was almost such a cool video, do a revisit and do it justice next time!

I had the core 2 duo in one of my PCs. Solid unit for a long time. Until games started to really use the 4 cores, it was great.

This shows just how well the RE engine is optimized! Great job Capcom.

This is just silly, but I love that it actually worked! It's surprising how well older hardware can run with "newer" GPUs. I paired an AMD X4 I got for free with a 1050-Ti and it served me well for a couple of years, wasn't exactly fast but for most games it was playable if you lowered the quality to medium. Also the fact you don't know what an ISA slot is makes me feel incredibly old.

amazing cpu the q9550, was my first pc 4 years ago, overclocked it to a 3.43ghz and was pretty solid lmao. kenshi was solid aslong as you gave it time to render the new zones

2:23 that case is from the 90s. In the late 2000s, it would've been black with better airflow, like the Antec 900. Maybe static LEDs.

Q6600 G0 @ 4GHz on a custom water loop was my jam back in the very late 2000's - great machine. Can't be bothered for all the custom cooling now but it was a great machine.

i am actually surprised by the result. I used to being able to play every AAA game 10 years ago with the cheapest processor (like a 40$ amd one) and a good gpu for the time (5850). Things changed i guess

that slot is called ISA, it's in fact older than PCI, and was used for expansion, including graphics and sound cards, and also even for industrial equipment, which is the reason why is still used in some industries, which is also why some weird new motherboards have it even while supporting new cpus like intel ones

I'm currently running a Core 2 Quad Q9650 with 8GB DDR3 Ram, G41 Asus Mobo, and a GTX 1650 Super in my Plex Server. Works like a champ! haha. This was the CPU that got me back into PC gaming and building In 2016 when I went for a super budget build so I have a soft spot for it. Still rocking it in a media PC to keep the legend going 😁👌 Awesome Video!

I'm sure someone already posted this in the chat, but the black slot at the bottom of the older motherboard is called an ISA slot (Industry Standard Architecture). Those specific slots are 16-bit ISA slots. They were prevalent on much older systems from the 80s and 90s, and fell off in the 2000's.

My first was Pentium II, Athlon x2, then Core 2 Duo E8400 such a good cpu and ended up with 2500K 4.5 OC for 11 years, man it's gonna be hella of an update jumpin to 13600K can't wait. 2500K Sandy Bridge was ahead of it's time.

still have the q6600 and zalman 9700 cooler with a gigabyte p35 ds3r in my old pc in my closet from along time ago. Thing was a beast once you did an oc to 3ghz with stock voltage. Was awesome for the time.

That was fun! You'll do a lot better with a quad core. I've done all of these experiments in the past and had similar results but not with a 3090ti!

I’m actually surprised the C2Q still did as well as it did 🤯🤩. I personally had the C2Q Q6600 and overclocked it to 3.4Ghz 🥰👍 with negligible effort …..a quick FSB O/C and a manually input cpu multiplier 🫠🤯🤩 …. Those were the good old days!!!

bro makes it look like the open ceiling and the dangling insulation is part of his setup, I didn't notice for a while

My first PC had a Core 2 Duo E7500 which we bought in 2010. Used it till 2022 before upgrading to the I5 9500f.

This video is what happens when you blow 99% of your budget on the GPU

That motherboard and CPU inside the case are treasures.

Did almost exact this (Q6600 though) and 3060TI during the GPU shortage of last year. I refused to start my new build until i had a GPU in my hands so when i finally got the 3060TI, i put it into my old system. Ran fine but only marginally better performance than my old radeon HD 6950 (ofc due to PCIE 2,0 and severe cpu bottlenecking)

im sure someone has told you by now but that connector you were wondering about is called IDE, it was how hard drives were conneccted before SATA.

6:34 ISA slots, 16bit ISA slots to be exact. That goes back to the 1980s during the DOS days. Now I feel old.. thanks Bretthost.

6:44 that's an ISA slot (Industry Standard Architecture), formerly known as PC bus or AT bus depending on the bus width (8 or 16 bit). It has a throughput of 8 or 16 MB/s. Oof. first family-shared computer in the house had those, Packard Bell... windows 98.

When you actually have the exact same CPU with a GTX 750 Ti...

Core 2 anything and Windows 7 were highly desired by CAD draftsman at the engineering firm I worked for in 09. We were stuck with Pentium 4 machines on XP from 2003. The 08 downturn made new PCs unobtainium for us, for years. Next machine for me was a I5-2500k in 2011. I still use that beast with a 1080TI.

The Intel Q6600 was my very first CPU I used to build a PC… fun times!

I have a storage server with a xeon x3210 (server version of a c2q) and I'm impressed at how well it still holds up. web browsing and other basic tasks are still totally doable. it almost shames my purchase of a 5900x

Fun Fact: The black slots below the PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) are what are known as ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) slots, or at least that's the term that Compaq coined for it back in the day because they didn't really want to keep calling them "PC-compatible".

I had a Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz OCed to 3.6 GHz with a Zalman CNPS10X Performa on a locked multiplier motherboard simply with FSB until 2016. The motherboard was a transitionary model that had both DDR2 and DDR3 RAM slots. With 8GB of DDR3 1800MHz I managed to run pretty much any game except for the most CPU intensive ones. CSGO was running great as well.

man i ran a qx9770 core2extreme for years after the i series came out; it even outperformed the first gen i7-970 in gaming, and was on par with the second gen i7s with just a mild overclock. this just brings me so far back.

Wow, that mystery connector is ISA, a connector that dates back to the original IBM PC.

This experience nearly was my every day reality until March 2023. I used an i7 3930K with a ASUS Rampage IV Extreme, 32GB of RAM and at first a GTX980 later with a RTX3090 (non Ti) - but this was by far better than your system - although its centre parts were nearly 11 years old! I was able to run Cyberpunk (even with the GTX980, without RT of course) with quite nice details. After that I updaded to a 13th gen i9 more RAM M.2-SSD and all that stuff - now the bottleneck is the RTX3090...

I was a core 2 quad owner myself. I used an intel core 2 quad Q9650 3ghz for gaming from 2011-2023 earlier this year and it was a=a solid cpu from its time and ran all my games just fine. I only upgraded to a Ryzen 9 5900X when my 13 year old motherboard went out. If the motherboard hadn't gone out I'd probably still be using it now

I just revamped my old core 2 quad Q8300 build from 2008 or 9. Paired it with a GTX 770 2GB which surprisingly runs pretty well after downclocking it slightly so it isnt bottlenecked by the CPU, and threw a SATA 256GB SSD, and 1.5TB HDD in there, 8GB of ram that I overclocked to 1033MHz, and a USB 3.0 PCIE Card so I have both the USB 3.0 Case USB ports working at 3.0 and the USB 3.0, SD card, and ESATA bay I put in there. Runs Doom 2016 max settings smooth 71FPS 1080P on my 75HZ ASUS monitor I had laying in my basement. It's surprisingly a fast little system for how old it is. It runs and looks modern, you'd never know that its old. It even plays games like GTA5 on high settings 1080P and gets 60 FPS, and I even got Rust running at like 50 on medium 1080P. Very respectable performance. I'm downloading Fortnite next to see if it'll run that (I know it will but i wanna see the FPS.)

I'm still rocking my 2009 PC with a X58 LGA 1366 platform. I run a Xeon 5675 cpu overclocked at 4.5ghz and a 1070Ti. A 1Tb 980 pro Nvme m.2 ssd mounted on PCie. 24gb of DDr3 ram running at 2100mhz. And 5 USB 3.2 outletz via PCie too. Don't throw away your old rigs! They can still rock today!

11:50 whats the program called when you see everything top left?

The port you are asking about is called an ISA port. it's the predecessor to PCI and was only on that board for compatibility. even in 1997 that was considered basically obsolete. But at the time they were still good for modems and sound cards ect. they actually did make video cards for those slots as well. I think they were 8 color and 16 color, maybe even 256 colors. But if you wanted to play 3d games on it you had to have what was known as a 3d accelerator card. like the voodoo 2. I remember having two voodoo 2's and a normal video card like that with all the daisy chained vga cords. but man I could really spin that 3dfx doughnut demo.

Those are epic processors! I still have 2 gaming rigs with a Q9550 which I use for games which don't need AVX. One is build on a motherboard type Asus P5K which has DDR2 and a 1050Ti and the other is a Dell Optiplex 3080 which has DDR3 and a low profile Nvidia T600. Both systems still perform very good in 1080P compared to my i5-9600k with a 3060 in it. The one with DDR3 does have less stutters in some games and also is used for video editing in Pinnacle studio and Adobe Premiere. Heck I prefere that system above my dual Xeon E5-2650V4 workstation which is much to loud and power hungry compared to the time advantage in rendering and video editing tasks. If you disable spectre & meltdown in the registry you will notice an improvement (security issue though).

Would love to see a follow up with a Pentium 4 2.26Ghz + ASUS P4DG1, as far as I know, that's as old as you can get with PCIE support (20 and a half years old!)

The black slots are old expansion slots. I had an sound card connected into it. I think it is also not plug and play.

I had the core 2 duo on my old xp machine and it was a freaking beast for what I was using it for (minimal games and cod bops) it was powerful for it

I would like to see this idea revisited, I know there were late model motherboards that supported ddr3, and now im curious if there would be any uptick from changing out to ddr3.

From my experience trying to squeeze the last bit of performance from a core2 quad the main walls I hit is always memory controller related. Both capacity and speed.

Bruh seriously best cpu cooler ever actually the larger version. This whole video is maximum nostalgia.

I just sold my Core 2 Quad Q9650 three days ago and man, I already miss it, its an old CPU but it was capable of doing many things despite being old hardware.

my first pc was actually using a q8300 and it was letting me play games up to far cry4 though not the best experience i had, had it for years so it made me all the more certain i wanted to use pc as my primary gaming platform eventially getting a 4th gen core from intel which i just recently upgraded from to a 5800x

You should try this with a DDR3 Motherboard, it should help with the textures loading issue, also you could try modifying .ini files on the games that didn’t run so they wont check for newer instructions on the cpu. However all and all great video.

I wish every BIOS functions like this one. It's just so simple and straightforward.

What is the program called which is running as an overlay in the upper left?

Socket 1366 hexacores are still kicking ass. Triple channel memory keeps it surprisingly relevant. Also, the throughput thing doesn't matter for gaming (3080ti's dont even fully sturate the bandwidth of pcie 2.0 x16 while gaming)

Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) is the 16-bit internal bus of IBM PC/AT and similar computers based on the Intel 80286 and its immediate successors during the 1980s. The bus was (largely) backward compatible with the 8-bit bus of the 8088-based IBM PC, including the IBM PC/XT as well as IBM PC compatibles. Originally referred to as the PC bus (8-bit) or AT bus (16-bit), it was also termed I/O Channel by IBM. The ISA term was coined as a retronym by competing PC-clone manufacturers in the late 1980s or early 1990s as a reaction to IBM attempts to replace the AT-bus with its new and incompatible Micro Channel architecture. The 16-bit ISA bus was also used with 32-bit processors for several years. An attempt to extend it to 32 bits, called Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA), was not very successful, however. Later buses such as VESA Local Bus and PCI were used instead, often along with ISA slots on the same mainboard. Derivatives of the AT bus structure were and still are used in ATA/IDE, the PCMCIA standard, Compact Flash, the PC/104 bus, and internally within Super I/O chips.

That 100% CPU to 31% GPU was the apex moment for that processor lol.

@6:50 THAT SLOT IS AGP (ACCELERATED GRAPHICS PORT) USED FOR GRAPHICS IN OLDER DAYS .

LOL ISA slots confound Brett. That was what there was before there was PCI. No, not PCI-E. PCI. There was also EISA slots as well. They look like APG slots. Remember them?

you should've pushed 4k, hilariously higher resolutions are a way to squeeze extra life out of an old system, I just retired my fx8350 this month after 12 years of gaming because the upper limit of my bottleneck was an r9 fury x, if I used my 5700xt @4k I might've been able to keep it going but it was time for an upgrade. but an old Quad core can still run w10 just fine.

Sorry to say, but it was truly "the good 'ol times". These BIOS screen at 8:50 just bring back those great times! Being a computer nerd was just awesome during the 80's and 90's!

I was really disappointed about the lack of 10th anniversary videos back in 2006 But my Xeon X5460 is still doing a fine job. I also have a Zalman like that, but it can't keep up with a quad on 4.1 GHz. In fact, I'm watching the video on it. Paired with my old GTX 660 Ti it can still do a lot many years later. Not for latest AAA gaming, but lots of things still run well on it. In Doom 2016 the machine is constantly in a GPU limit, and Witcher 3 runs fine as well.

My PC that I replaced earlier this year was nearly identical to your spec. Mine was an Intel Q9450 OC's to 3.2Ghz, on a ZALMAN CNPS9500 LED, 8 Gig Corsair DDR2 Ram @ 1066, Asus P5Q and a NVIDIA 750Ti. Its still running till this day but is incapable because lack of AVX2 and SSE4 so i had to move on. Still it served me very well. Impressed by Zalman coolers too as mine is 13 years old and the fan is still the original with zero issues.

The definition of "bottle neck"

what's the name of the program that shows your pc stats in the top left corner when in-game

Haha, your test bench is still going strong as my GF's HTPC. And your Zalman was my first DIY cooler too, in '04 if memeory servers, when dual Opteron was king & not that expensive.

I remember when these were the best processors you could get!

The Core 2 Quad supports DDR3 and PCI Express 3.0. You should retest it on a newer motherboard.

Imagine sending this back in time

i spotted the keychron keyboard behind you there, good choice haha :D

This was awesome! What an abomination of a build LOL! I love it.

i think the issues is the AVX instruction sets , my 2008 Quad Core Xeon was doing just fine until Apex legends....I had to get a newer CPU Because New Games Want AVX capable CPUs ,I Believe Its the way Large games are compressed and stream in assets ,they require AVX for the CPU the crunch math more efficiently

Those black slots are ISA slots. In 97 they were being phased out. I have a system from 1999 and it had 1 of those. They its no different than seeing the old PCI slot on an early 2010s board with PCIE slots.

11:25 can someone tell me the name of that music cuz i need it for an edit?

I have a Q9300 Core 2 Quad (Yorkfield) with maximum 8GB DDR2 RAM 1066 (dual channel) and it's still going strong after all these years. It was my first Intel based PC after having been on the Athlon XP, and then Athlon 64 platform since the early 2000s. I don't game on it anymore, but it makes a great home (bedroom) media PC and doubles as a NAS, with 9TB worth of HDDs in a drive pool, but it boots from an SATA SSD, using Win10. I only have a GTX 550 ti, but it can drive a 1080p monitor just fine for Prime Video, Spotify, KZfaq, Twitch, Netflix, and local video and audio files. Though it does stutter on occasion in Netflix (only netflix) even installing a GTX 980 didn't fix that problem. My other PCs and devices have no stuttering on Netflix.

The core 2 quad isn't so bad as what's presented here, the 3090ti might just be too new to work with a non uefi bios. I think rx 400 and nvidia 10 and maybe 20 series were last to work with it. I had a problem getting the radeon drivers to install properly with a similar system and an rx550, apparently the legacy bios was the cause.

For a long time I gamed on an old home computer with an AMD A10-6700U CPU with 8GB of DDR3 ram and a 1050 Ti. Now that I know more about computers, I'm surprised how well that (the cpu and ram) was able to run most of the games I played.

What software do you use to show your FPS counter? I don't seem to find it ;-;

I've never known what it really feels like to feel old until someone points to an ISA slot and asks what it is.../cry Also, the next time someone says the CPU doesnt matter for games, this video is being shared :)

Should have got a DDR3 board for better comparison, the RAM will hold it back quite a bit tbh! And you have never seen an ISA slot before? :O

i think the slot is for agp graphics cards or maybe the old connector for fan controllers

what thing are you using to see performance stats?

I could immediately tell that that case was definitely not from the same era as the CPU. The Intel sticker on it is for a Pentium MMX, which came out in 1997. Even without reading the manufacturing date on the PSU, some of us will have suspected that it was also from the 90s, especially with its 200 watts only rating.

Me with core 2 duo:🗿🗿🗿

I still have a Core 2 Quad kicking around. And that same Zalman cooler.

i have an e7400 and a q6600 stashed away myself. i cant bring myself to get rid of em. so many summer nights spent playing games and listening to grooveshark on those things.

Your pairing of q6600 and rtx 2080ti back in the day made me determined to buy it and I bought it. What would be the best GPU for it tho?

Next video : Core i9-13900ks and GTX 480

Just the video I had to see. I'm still running on core2quad (soon to be Ryzen 9 5900x) and recently my Radeon HD5870 died, so I'm building myself a new pc. The first thing that I already have in my possesion is an RTX 3080 ti. I'm gonna have to do a bit of case cutting, since I got myself the EVGA FTW Ultra version and it's too goddamn big, but I'm determined to do it tomorrow and try it out while waiting for the rest of my new build to be delivered. Fun times!