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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.

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

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

0:16 Bro just play an extreamely nostalgic music.

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.

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.

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

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

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 :)

The definition of "bottle neck"

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!

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

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

The first computer I ever disassembled and rebuilt, had an AMD K6-2 350 CPU... How is that for old?

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

when over locking was still fun. stuff goes over the FSB, but the memory also sits on it, and at high clocks that will be the limiting factor. A Q9550 should easily go beyond 4 GHz, but for that 1000er ram is basically a requirement. Or well, manually tweaking ram timings and voltages. I'd go with games until around 2016, they should have no issues with instruction extensions like AVX

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

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.

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.

Dude saying core 2 quad is old enough for a driving license and heres me playing ac4 and og titles in *core 2 duo* 💀

Average prebuild PC:

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!!!

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!

Me with core 2 duo:🗿🗿🗿

imagine revive after 15 years off death and someone put you on a f1 to try to go full speed with you

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!

That motherboard and CPU inside the case are treasures.

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

I was disappointed we didn't get to see a Solitaire benchmark.

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.

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!

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

When the kids in the neighbourhood are playing with sticks, and you brought a .50 Desert Eagle

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

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.

what if using an old graphic card with high end cpu

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 :)

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

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

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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 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.)

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.

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PC Specialist says Jokingly :How much bottleneck do you want Him: Yes

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!)

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.

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.

If that Core 2 Quad could speak, it would be like: _"Where am I??? What year is it??? What the hell is going on???"_ **looks over at GPU** *_"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING?!?"_*

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

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?

the start is like saying a small rc, almost powerless rc car can drive the worlds biggest person

3090Ti : Hey man, I can do it self. Core2Quad : Where am I ?

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

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.

The production of this video is like a 2010 tv show

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

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)

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.

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!

"This case is age appropriate, it's from the late 2000" looks at original PSU: "1997"

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).

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.

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

Imagine sending this back in time

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.

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.

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

my dad used to have a gaming pc with an intel i7 2nd gen and a gtx 750 ti. one day it broke and i was confused why my dad wasnt motivated to repair it. he would repair a lot of stuff before like my tv and my xbox 360 controller. turns out he just said it broke during 2018 and 2nd gen motherboards and super ahrd to find in my country. I asked him cant we just get a new motherboard and a cpu and he said “we’ll try it soon”

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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

Takes half the video (8 minutes) to get what we clicked for, the performance, this video could have been 5 minutes of gold

6:44 You have never seen an ISA slot? Man I am getting old LOL

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

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

I have a piece of holly paper with all my passwords like 3 pages just of id’s, glad you get sponsors for more pc builds

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.

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.

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.

Question: Can you use an older GPU with a new CPU? For example: A Geforce 9800GT (A 2008 GPU) with one of intel's newer CPU's?

E8400 would be like supercomputer (for Polish people: moje przeznaczenie spełniło sie)

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?

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

Used to have this exact CPU back in 2010/2011, Later upgraded my pc to run it with GTX 1050 Ti, I had to move from Windows 10 to Windows 7 and GTA V had 60 fps.

The script for this video was pretty good, very well-written puns.

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.

Lol right, because if you blow all your money on such a gpu, you'd have no choice but to reuse the rest of your old system 😂 Cool video ^^

Zalman made beefy cpu coolers back in the late 2000's Really good value for the money

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.