Core 2 Quad Q6600 and GTX660 in 2020

[@reny8970]

With a cpu from 2007 you can run pretty decent games from 2007-2020 that's a good deal

[@OFFbitTech]

It really is amazing thinking how much time has passed. How many new generations of CPUs have been added since. Thanks for watching.

[@Hepsky]

@@OFFbitTech What if I use QC Q8300 and PNY Performance edition GTX 660 2GB pretty sure I have the same mobo as you too (what ram and HDD and is there any SSD in ur build)

[@OFFbitTech]

@@Hepsky Your performance should be pretty similar. Maybe even a bit better. We don't use very expensive SSD. In this video I believe we used 2 western digital Green SATA SSD drives. one 120gb WD green for the operating system and a 240gb WD green SSD for some of the games. We also did use a magnetic 1tb hard drive for some games as well. For the RAM we used 8gig of ram. A 2x4g kit of Kingston DDR3 1333 Ram (KVR1333D3N9K2/8G). Thanks for watching. We hope this has helped.

[@yurifurtado1955]

I use a overclocked C2Q q6600 at 3.0ghz and It is actually good for what games I play...

[@Hepsky]

@@OFFbitTech thankyouuu so much

[@lukacgg8220]

love this vid thanks for the help!!

[@OFFbitTech]

Our pleasure. Thanks for watching.

[@pollrodri6254]

I use it, with 8gb and it does pretty good, but sometimes i need to do an slight OC till 3ghz, which an be easily done

[@oscarfiala2104]

3 ghz is a good overclock, though i think it can go even higher than that.

[@pollrodri6254]

@@oscarfiala2104 yeah, much higher, on stock cooler i got up to 3.4, but the gain is not good enough to take the tempersture risk, i supose you could go higher with a good coller and power supply, but my material is what it is

[@rijalazzaki7243]

What motherboard are u using?

[@pollrodri6254]

@@rijalazzaki7243 i dont use it anymore, i have upgraded, but i used a generic asus p55 motherboard with godd enough cooling, just make sure the thermal pads in the board are ok and you should be good to go

[@kaeltan1898]

Nevers change my q6600 in m'y htpc. It style good. With a GTX 770 for little playing in my living room.

[@OFFbitTech]

Sounds like a nice little set up. Thanks for watching

[@SaadMusicOfficial]

Did u have Bottleneck? The recommended cpu for this gpu is i5 3rd gen like 3570

[@OFFbitTech]

Yes a newer CPU would defiantly net better performance for the GPU. But a cheap GPU that can get max performance out a CPU is not a bad thing in my books. Also not all games and applications are as heavy on the CPU as others so the results can vary. Thanks for watching.

[@stefke318]

What about the q6700?

[@OFFbitTech]

Hopefully one day we will have a q6700 to test with.

[@shockagg]

This is literally my CPU and GPU

[@tnyredgrave3009]

there is any solotuion for apex to run on this config cus i have the same config

[@OFFbitTech]

We never tried apex. We know that it needs and instruction set that core 2 does not have. However If there is a work around we will definitely give it ago. How do you find apex on this config? Thanks for watching.

[@Santi-fw4hp]

que windows tiene ?

[@OFFbitTech]

Windows 10 Build 2004

[@SoulZGaming]

i used to have this cpu , i love it tbh

[@elluisxdvlogs7922]

Core 2 quad q8200 and gtx 660 good?

[@OFFbitTech]

it's probably still a bit overkill, but if it's the right price nothing wrong with having a gtx 660. Though if you are looking for something cheaper a GTX 650 and gtx 550 ti would probably be fine as well. GTX 660 can be found for cheap, when I made this video I think I purchased this for about $20 - $30 Australian dollars. Since then the prices have gone up a bit, but they still can be found for cheap. But to answer your question, if it's the right price or you already have one. It will be good.

[@GonamTech]

IMO, why you cant launch COD warzone and RDR2 its because the GTX 660 Only support DX11_0, yes its support DX12 but in many cases you will found many issues for running newer DX12 Application..

[@OFFbitTech]

Great. :) Thankyou for the information. I wish they would do an error check on start up. It's a shame, there are some pretty powerful video cards out there that don't have dx12 that would be able to run it fine. However DX11 is very old now. Thanks for the info and thanks for watching.

[@DC-gk4ls]

no, its bcause warzone needs SSE 4,4.2 cpu...and q6600 dont have that feature

[@herimunir9366]

Unfortunetly my pc mobo g31 only recognize q6600 as 2 core...

[@OFFbitTech]

The q6600 still can do a lot. I know it's not the 45nm architecture but it's not that much slower and an overclock defiantly can close that gap between the performance. Thanks for watching.

[@redimator3477]

I bought that cpu, And then I saw the sticker in the bottom of the cpu on the middle, I'd remove it and accidentally removed the little rectangle thing, It is still work but it's only 2 core and threads, did the 2 cores died when you remove that little rectangle thing in the middle?

[@OFFbitTech]

My guess it sounds like you have removed a surface mount capacitor also known as an smd capacitor. If that it the case you only may need to to solder another or the same capacitor back on. Though we have not played around with damaged cpus from missing capacitors yet... we would love to know if that is the problem and if that fixes the problem. Let us know what you do. Thanks for watching.

[@obsoletepowercorrupts]

12:30 You might be right that there is some overclock or tweak. I think though that there comes a point where the only way to strip more performance out of that CPU is to instead use a very similar CPU such as the server (dual CPU) chips akin to it. While that might be seen as "a cheat or cop-out" I think it is close enough considering that many a q6600 were more varied from each other than that anyway _(such as being able or not to do the BSEL tape Mod)._ I think the x5460 is fairly close, so if you had two of the x5460 cpu chips in a server mboard (to give 8cores), you might find some games (be it linux or mswindows, depending on support) run ok. Really though what such a test would show is how well the q6600 would have done had there been a way to increase its cores, and so one might make an educated guess as to how many of the 8cores would be needed _(such as 6 cores akin to a theoretical hexacore)._ I think such "academic" tests are ok and are not cheating and it is because these chips are often seens as business-class anyway, sort of like the tricore and quadcore AM3 chips that lacked the level3 cache but still had decent FPU performance. It is a sort of cheekily "gaming at work" subculture. Any PC in a storm and all that.

[@OFFbitTech]

The only thing that hurts the q6600 vs the late core 2 CPUs, q9xxx series / Xeon e54xx and X54xx CPU's is the node size. There really is kind of free performance in pulling everything closer together. Going from 65nm to 45nm node will make a difference in performance in both power consumption and compute power. Intel's Tick Tock idea right there. But you are right it would be interesting to see how a server / workstation setup with dual quad CPU's would perform with games. Having the extra 8 cores ticks that box of games that use 6 cores plus. I would like to see what pubg would run like with bigger draw distances. We know that pubg does perform better with more than 4 cores. We do have a system sitting here soon ready for such a test. We are hoping to make a video on that in the near future. Very interesting how different architectures from AMD and intel react in the wild. Both have there pro's and cons. But we think intel from this era intel had the better design. But they defiantly trade blows with each other on who's on top in each era and both tackle problems from a different angle these days. Thanks for watching.

[@obsoletepowercorrupts]

@@OFFbitTech Vulkan (especially in linux) springs to mind, but OpenGL too is worthwhile (6core games like you say). Regarding directx (mswindows), those q6600 (similar to a phenom, even just a humble quad 945) are nice to pair with two crossfire r5-230 cards (or hd6450) especially if in 2GB variants _(but 1GB cards can be ok in some games, but not so much the 512MB cards)._ Obviously, not the same league as the nvidia650 but still surprising FPS results when overclocked.

[@walissonmisray7933]

hello what font do you use in this configuration I have the same one you put when I connect to the EVGA 450W power supply it does not turn on but when I connect to a generic power supply it turns on

[@OFFbitTech]

Hi, We are little confused with your question. I think you would like to know which psu we are using. The PSU we are using is Antec Neo He500. It's a 500w supply. It does sound like the power supply is overloading. The card + system maybe needs more than 450w though nvidia specs say recommended 450w to 500w PSU. Your 450w PSU might just not have enough with your setup or the PSU cant provide it's specified power which happens as well. Usually if the PSU is damaged or getting old. I think the 450w PSU just cant produce enough power for your system unfortunately. Hope that helps. Thanks for watching.

[@oscarfiala2104]

The xeon e5420 is an interesting alternative

[@OFFbitTech]

It sure is, if you are ok with a bit of motherboard modding and cpu modding it can be a cheaper option to get 12mb l2 cache core 2 quad. Thanks for watching.

[@anthonymayorgarcia1735]

I have this very setup and when I try to open valorant, I get bluescreened??? How could I fix this issue?

[@OFFbitTech]

We have not run across any blue screen problems as of yet. Getting a blue screen is a proper crash. Might be worth running memtest x86 just to check if your ram is OK. It also could be a video card issue as well. Maybe also try reinstalling your video card drives. Do you have any other games or programs that crash at times? We hope that can help. let us know how it goes. Thanks for watching

[@agheelahmed]

where you guys ?

[@OFFbitTech]

We are based in Australia.

[@Chwezi29]

How about the temperatures if using the stock intel cooler?

[@OFFbitTech]

We did not have any real troubles with heat. Though we are using a open bench test scenario which definitely helps with heat dispersion. Thanks for watching.

[@the_first_rule]

12:00 lol

[@Joeysnew532]

Sorry to bug you about this but I think 720 is where these games should be played on systems such as these. Then if they do well then move them up.

[@OFFbitTech]

Thanks Joey. :)

[@czguy3045]

I have three faster systems but I literally built up a system using a Q6600 in a Gigabyte board and an MSI 660 OC just yesterday. I actually have another Q6600 but it's in a fairly crap Gateway OEM board and not very overclock-able. The Gigabyte is perfectly stable at 3.2 GHz. Slightly overclocking the 660 to +75 and +200 saw a score of 1,213 on the Heaven benchmark. Not too shabby for a 14-year old processor and an 9-year old GPU.

[@OFFbitTech]

It can be quiet surprising what some older gear can do with a bit of tinkering. Thanks for watching and thanks for leaving a nice story :) . Keep up the good work, we love older gear and seeing what we can get it to do.

[@Addo666]

Ah yes 2 years back when i tried playing fortnite on a q6600 i didnt even realize that the cpu was the bottleneck

[@OFFbitTech]

We all have those moments. Q6600 was a beast of a processor for it's time. But it's slowly getting pushed away from the ability to play new games. With the lack of the newer instruction sets that some new games require to run as well as the lower performance compared to newer CPUs. It's Sad but we still we have fond memories for the Q6600 and we always will. Thanks for watching.

[@muhammadhumayunkhan9483]

Q6600 , 6GB Ram , Gt9500 ; 720p Csgo low setting , how many fps can i get playing competitive inferno map?

[@OFFbitTech]

Expect to get about 20 - 35fps for most of the map. Expect big drops in fps to about 15fps when lots of players are about in open areas. Our guess is this would not be a great playing experience, though you could be tricked into it with a smooth fps in closed areas and quiet open areas but you will be punished in big fire battles when you need a good stable frame rate. Thanks for watching . We hope this has helped. Happy New Year. :)

[@muhammadhumayunkhan9483]

@@OFFbitTech Thanks for the above info

[@muhammadhumayunkhan9483]

@White Pill Radio yep i will change it

[@matheuus234]

I play fortnite, csgo and gta 5 very well on my q9550 8gb ram DDR3 and rx 550 4gb

[@OFFbitTech]

A great cpu the q9550. Still able to game many years later with current titles. That 8gb of ram is important to have these days with new games. Sounds like a great system you have there. Thanks for watching. Loving the comments.

[@harisminhas1664]

i have also q6600 with 8gbram can i use gtx1050ti low profile without bottleneck?

[@OFFbitTech]

You could use the GTX 1050ti, but we believe the Q6600 would be a bottleneck for the GPU. It will depend on the games, but Im sure that all games would be bottle necked in someway. But if the price is right there is no harm in bottle necking you are just not getting the best performance from your GPU and down the track you can take the GTX 1050 ti and put it in your next pc. Thanks for watching.

[@harisminhas1664]

@@OFFbitTech Thanks for guiding so which gpu is best for this processor?

[@harisminhas1664]

@@OFFbitTech i need to play just games like gta v and assassin creeds thats why i need your suggestion. yes i think i need to buy gtx1050ti low profile in future i am upgrade my cpu how's that?

[@OFFbitTech]

@@harisminhas1664 We would probably not got to much faster than a gtx 660 or a gtx 750ti or the gtx 1030 with a q6600.

[@OFFbitTech]

@@harisminhas1664If you upgraded the motherboard and cpu down the track to an i5 or something along those lines. Then buying a GTX 1050ti now would probably be better than buying a slower card now than buying another card later for the next upgrade you do on the cpu and motherboard side of things. However their might be better options in video cards down the track when you come to your next pc upgrade anyway. Hope that helps with your decision making. Thanks for watching.

[@saveeninternational7797]

Bro, please video this machine-> Q9650 c2q cpu + 1333MHz ddr3 16GB/8GB rams + GTX 960 2GB VGA + Solid State Drive. 😘🥰😎

[@OFFbitTech]

Unfortunately we don't have a Q9650 or the GTX 960 in our possession. We do have a Xeon e5450 which is based from the sane architecture and has the same cache and clock speeds. It's believed to be the equivalent in the Xeons. So we may use that in it's place. We'll keep an eye out see if a GTX 960 comes past us at some point. Thanks you for the request and thanks for watching.

[@mohamednemiche4170]

Ram 4gb ?

[@OFFbitTech]

You probably need at least 6 for most games. 4 can still work but it will have some loading lag effects in some games... Not all though. Thanks for watching.

[@agungbawa99]

Use fps limit for fortnite Don't let the CPU work at 100%

[@OFFbitTech]

We will give it ago next time. Thanks for the tip.

[@wanurarj2829]

Hallo bro

[@OFFbitTech]

Hello and Thanks for watching.

[@agheelahmed]

i would like star a channel like you guys but sadly i only have gt 610

[@OFFbitTech]

Still give it ago. There is a lot to learn. If you let people know they may donate hardware to help. You definitely can make your first video on a gt610 and do follow up videos of getting the most performance out of it. You could even do 1 game a video and make more in depth analysis. There is a lot that goes into a video so it's always good to just get into it and give it ago. It's a lot of fun it can be very hard but so rewarding as well. Good luck and thanks for watching.

[@agheelahmed]

@@OFFbitTech OMG thanks

[@OFFbitTech]

Our pleasure. Thank you for being a part of the offbit community.

[@agheelahmed]

@@OFFbitTech sure i will help as i can

[@agheelahmed]

@@OFFbitTech idk who is ready to give graphics card

[@simlife445]

we have diffent def of silky smooth... dipping to mid 30s isnt smooth 60 is smooth 144 is silky unless you have never experienced it the game cube(2001 system) could run fzero at 60 fps.. its i a bit odd for a 2020 video soon to be 2021 to use a 2016 game

[@viajeporargentina]

Si tenías una ssd, el fortnite te carga más rápido

[@OFFbitTech]

debería

[@aurelianchitulescu6983]

Give mee video card

[@lukask4937]

your q6600 is underperforming. I get 240 at stock in cinebenchr15

[@OFFbitTech]

That is a very good score compared to ours. There is no doubt that is what we scored though... Are you running windows 7 by any chance? What motherboard are you running? Thanks for your input.

[@lukask4937]

@@OFFbitTech I have a lot of PCs (like 20) and I have used q6600 for years. I have used win7 and win10 while benchmarking the q6600. Once I had mine stable at3.6ghz and got way over 300. Maybe you had some windows update going on in the background. Also my I gave a friend a q6600 system (q6600 overclocked 2.8ghz 8gb ddr2 677mhz fast hdd and a gtx660) and we played with no problems.

[@lukask4937]

@@OFFbitTech Forgot to say we played sea of thieves. Maybe updates made it harder to run

[@OFFbitTech]

@@lukask4937 Love sea of thieves. Probably my number one favorite game. They have made the engine run so much better with updates but there is so so much more happening now as well. So gains and losses I guess. We might look at doing a video with our phenom II again soon with a more capable video card. It would be interesting see how much better the phenom II can do with a but more gpu power behind them.

[@OFFbitTech]

@@lukask4937 Windows is defiantly painful with it's updates. It's amazing how turning them off it still manages to do updates at times. The Q6600 is just one of those legendry processors. We will defiantly revisit this cpu once again. We have had this one at 3ghz on an oem HP system with the bsel mod in a video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4Woh4WneqyLfKc Our stock clock in this video scored 234 in this system. So definitely we had something going on when we ran cinebench or something else holding us back from it's optimal performance. We will be back with another video hardware combination for the Q6600 though. Good eagle eye spotting. Lukas. Thanks for watching.

[@rikocorp.]

no, bullshit.

[@sett_keke1636]

This cpu suck lol