The Mysterious Core 2 Quad Adventure

[@Reonu]

Let's just admire the fact that he went to the forest while carrying a desktop PC

[@JailerGamer]

Xharos yeah :D

[@sharwan6177]

Ohh yeah

[@charlesturner897]

That bad boy weighs about 25kg too

[@xhgcommentaryarchive]

That's classic GHG style

[@CrypticCorruption]

motherboard probably cried the whole time.

[@OrangeCat__]

probably lo

[@n3wbthatstuff]

I once carried a desktop from a friends house when i purchased it on 2 seperate bus rides.

[@Wyatt_James]

GTA V - Bruisin' 42fps most of the time 30fps at the max WAT

[@mish1195]

a similar scenario happend to me once in csgo

[@SteveDice21]

Thumbs down for the lack of bluetooth pizza

[@Raven10241]

did he update the bios before putting the core 2 quad into that machine? cause that might be why it's being mysterious if the bios needed an update to support the cpu better

[@ClickyCrisp]

I like your Vice City poster 👌

[@Russell970]

he's voice looks PRO ♥

[@imhazard0uz]

bru its clicky crisp

[@shizappledapple]

Nice to know Clicky Crisp watched Green Ham

[@burtiq]

Clicky, why are you here bruddah?

[@quadraforest]

CLICKYYYY!!!

[@fatmax2195]

HEY Tim James: The probelm is your RAM... its not enough and it's DDR2... try 8 gigs and see what happens.... also if you have a core 2 quad q9650 or q9550 it would perform better. Windows 10 also might speed things up. Give it a shot please!

[@fatmax2195]

Great video anyway as always. Really makes me excited to see this old PC stuff over the consoles actually lol

[@phantomlobotomy1157]

I mean, I have a terrible laptop that can run CSGO juuuust a bit worse than that, with 4gb of ram...But hey, maybe it could work.

[@fatmax2195]

+PhantomLobotomy Yeah for games like CS:GO ram really doesn't matter, but sometimes on my gaming rig with 16gb ram I see GTA Using like 6-8 gigs of ram... sometimes not having enough in big open world games like that can hurt.

[@unixpert321]

+PhantomLobotomy cpu

[@fatmax2195]

rohit sanyal The Core 2 Quad in this build is a bottleneck too, but LGA 775 should be able to handle this generation of games if you use the higher power chips.

[@joeylo3543]

Praise the sun! A new GHG video

[@Russell970]

ofof

[@gamemoves2415]

Praise the sun indeed. Forever Escanor

[@nibba5692]

BLACK SALAMI

[@AGenericAccount]

This dude has one of the most interesting aesthetic styles in his videos... and he's definitely at the forefront of creativity for these kinds of videos.

[@HmanHman]

Loving all the age of empires tunes !

[@Russell970]

Ok i got it

[@Colebeonit]

Ya pretty sweet

[@valk_real]

Heaven

[@davidlee5982]

its like listening angels songs

[@Max-rn3eb]

Loved aoe 2

[@Thatguy-qb9ub]

Hey GHG, the q8200 was a weird chip since release as it has the distinction or being basically two pentium dual cores also it is cache starved it was meant to compete with the Athlon II Really love your work man!

[@CertainlyCaro]

Never thought 360p would look so nice. Well done!

[@MrGoldenfresh]

IKR

[@Russell970]

yeah im in 360p right now lol

[@warmerspy]

Yea I didn't even notice it until I read the comments.

[@joshuasprucie8933]

It just went to 72060p

[@CertainlyCaro]

+Captain Technology o_o DAMMIT

[@Gondola_]

You passed 100.000 Subs! Congratulations

[@marlinrobertson5464]

Green Ham Gaming the only guy to take his computer for a walk

[@OrangeCat__]

ikr? lol

[@maxinator317]

DoomDukem 1998 "computer" not "laptop"

[@grizzly443]

A laptop is a computer

[@Dead__Byte]

I absolutely love your content, GHG. I especially like your content that's about console games and just unorthodox tech videos. Please keep these videos coming. You're one of the most entertaining KZbinrs on my subscription list!

[@pedromourente1840]

you know you're a hardcore ghg fan when you watch the video on 360p

[@Russell970]

360p like 2007s hahahahhahaa

[@pranavmalhotra8551]

I have slow internet so I watch at 360p

[@jaredholcomb2533]

240 like a beast

[@byonic3308]

+Jared Holcomb 144p

[@TimSlee1]

Australian internet and 240p.

[@narwhal4304]

The 270X is capable of playing games at 1080p. By turning the resolution down to 720p, the CPU becomes a much bigger bottleneck, thus the GPU is not able to perform at it's best. This would explain the lows being under 30FPS, and why there was likely stutter during gameplay. Mind you, the Q8200 is a bottleneck for the 270X regardless, but I don't understand why 720p and low presets were the chosen settings for the benchmarks.

[@kirbyswarp]

there better be a Saab in this video.

[@Russell970]

he can use gtx 750 ti

[@MrPicklepod]

+Horizon Gamers Stop replying on every comment.

[@kirbyswarp]

Horizon Gamers I have a 750Ti im my computer... And 2 Saabs in the driveway.

[@Russell970]

ok gtx 750 still awesome just like you :D

[@kirbyswarp]

Horizon Gamers Thanks mate

[@ryanxie7554]

the dell mobo might be bottlenecking the system? not 100% sure but highly likely

[@TheYugamer13]

thats what i was thinking

[@randomaccessbrains]

i tought so too, very strange...

[@zombiekiller2point9]

I was thinking about the motherboard to, but I think its the ram. He is trying to run Doom at half the recommend memory, same for GTA V, Fallout 4, the Witcher 3 needs 6gb of ram, and overwatch minimum requirement is 4gb of ram.....but for some reason I cant believe this myself. Personally I think one of the cpu cores half way fried itself, and or is dying. Which would probably be the most likely scenario.

[@ryanxie7554]

***** The Core 2 Quad can only handle 4gb max I'm pretty sure and its only DDR2

[@zombiekiller2point9]

ryan xie What do you mean, I have a core 2 quad right now rocking 8gb's. There were 2gb sticks u know?

[@calvinjonesyoutube]

You need to do "beer is more my thing" t-shirts.

[@Russell970]

yeah |!

[@Robert_B_445]

GHG merch! Make that happen!

[@fractaldesigns7175]

+DoomDukem 1998 MTN DEW 4 LYFE

[@ElIisL4D2]

Ah, I see the problem. You never gave the PC a cigarette.

[@g00se12]

This channel easily deserves 1,000,000 subs. Great quality videos, I even used some of your vids to help me make my first classic build.

[@raven4k998]

please standby while your computer is experiencing s few technical glitches🤣

[@SpagheddiO]

Soooooo close to 100,000 subs! Been with you since 200! Australia FTW!

[@skyler8341]

I hope you never lose your love for making videos you are the absolute best, Im always happy when I see a new ghg vid. Thank you.

[@Russell970]

☺

[@CoDZockerLP]

+Horizon Gamers stop

[@Russell970]

😑

[@KaptainCnucklz]

6:40 "It's 2016, man." "The Year of the Offended." I rate 9/11.

[@64bit72]

Happy 100,000 subscribers Tim

[@vinny3725]

well I have to hand it to you, thee best video and intro on this model and CPU I've seen out of all of them!! keep them coming.

[@pierrot148]

Wow your channel is skyrocketing!! Well, congratulations on 100K subs already! Your videos are truly the best tech videos around because you're so passionate about them. And I truly have no idea what is happening with that computer, have you tried installing different RAM dimms? IDK how that could be the cause but then again I don't know what could be.

[@Russell970]

so close !

[@pierrot148]

well it could be the case that one of your ram dimms is faulty and thus it bottlenecks on memory intensive tasks, which would explain the massive drops in killing floor and fallout

[@Russell970]

he should put 8 gb of ram

[@pedrofalves]

the 8Gigs of RAM will only eliminate stuttering not giving that higher FPS he's expecting. Of course it will help too much but its not the real problem here the problem is that CPU, 4MB of cache for a CPU that old will defenitly not help

[@HuntersMoon78]

That case is the same is my Precision 490, it has dual quad core Xeon's in it along with 24GB Ram - it's a beast but bloody noisy

[@robertleeluben]

Did you install the chipset driver from Dell? I have a 3500 and the chipset driver from their website made a big difference to the machine compared to the one that win10 installed automatically.

[@sfranz5413]

Though you failed to make a good PC, you succeeded in making a great video. I love all the editing and post production in this. I like how the music syncs up with the bar graph. I like the shots in the wilderness with the rain forest sound effects. Good work all around.

[@SuPerbMusiCFan]

The Q8200 is considerably slower than the Q6600, as it has a lower clock speed and less cache aswell. And did you do a clean install after you swapped the CPU, because if you didn't you must go into device manager and uninstall the C2D otherwise the system will only be runing at 2 cores.

[@bill_clinton697]

Foreigner037, the processor itself doesn't have drivers to install / uninstall. If you are using a Pentium 4 and your motherboard supports a Core 2 Quad, then you can upgrade to the Core 2 Quad just fine. The issue here is the lack of RAM. 4 GB of RAM is not enough for gaming in 2018. It is plenty if you are just watching video or playing games from 5 years ago, but not today's games.

[@joshuarandazzo7335]

@@bill_clinton697 motherboard

[@aten97]

Man, GHG, I used to dislike your near-whispering speaking, but I decided to give you a chance. Oh boy, am I glad I did. There's honestly nothing better than coming home from a day of lectures and seeing a video you posted. Man, it's really therapeutic.

[@DylanChng]

drivers, viruses could be the issues

[@OrangeCat__]

i would've done a fresh windows install

[@ian1064]

Dylan Ch'ng I have a similar machine it's all Fraps fault without Fraps it runs everything at 45fps according to dxtory which is so much better than fraps

[@AshenTiger]

I lost it when the chart fills to the vocals in the song, and then the computer has a cigarette in it, classic. never change, mate!

[@randyharrigan4790]

my dad just got one of these with a core 2 duo at 3ghz and 8gb ram, I see potential, but this video is making me think otherwise, but still not sure, any opinions other than to just slap in a good GPU and hope for the best?

[@xavalintm]

Buy Core 2 Quad Q6600

[@_BangDroid_]

and bsel mod it to 3GHz

[@alexisvet]

gratz on 100k dude!

[@TheFancyLettuce]

ahh...anyone else on the 360p club ?

[@InfernoPhoenixFX]

Me! Beut seriously. i'm waiting for watching in HD D:

[@mandmtech2067]

yep

[@Russell970]

me :D

[@cokepack4030]

ye boii

[@barkabark]

Yep!

[@LydiaPuppy]

GHG should be hitting the 100k milestone tomorrow or a few days! Congrats in advanced!

[@codykamminga9667]

its something with the DELL motherboard

[@JailerGamer]

cody kamminga dell more like Not well

[@narwhal4304]

@Chris Schuler While a 270x will be bottlenecked by a q8200, i don't think putting in a faster C2Q would change results much. And GHG could have done so, seeing as he has a Q6600 in another Dell. My guess would have been the BIOS, motherboard, and/or maybe the fact he had 4GB DDR2 in that Dell while the games he tested recommend 8GB.

[@AeranoZ]

I wonder what went wrong during the Fallout 4 Benchmark. I'm playing it on a Xeon E5450 (Same Architecture, but 3GHz) and a GTX 480, at 1080p and on High settings, and i barely get under 30FPS, most of the time i'm somewhere around 45-50 FPS...

[@mr.numbknob1768]

i came across two dell workstation that have i5 3550's in them i picked both machines up for $75 each , major deal!

[@Russell970]

deal with panda

[@CoDZockerLP]

+Horizon Gamers -.-

[@mikobegaming]

Your style is unmatched. Keep up the great content man

[@syndromatic.design]

There's a funny easter egg in the tags! On seeing the tags, they say: Stop, Reading, Tags, and, watch, the, video, have, anice, day, Lol, good one Tim!

[@badvideoproductions3512]

how can cs:go run at 60fps on c2q but my c2d e7500 can run cs:go at 150-240fps without stutter?

[@johnkleppan8454]

CPU bottleneck. The Q8200 has less L2 cache than the Q6600, at roughly the same clock. BSEL mod the Q6600 with a conductive pen to 1333 FSB @ 3Ghz, or drop in a X3370 Xeon LGA 775 for $40 US. Then that T3400 will run!

[@xavalintm]

John Kleppan So a Q9550 (12mb cache) would solve that fps problem?

[@johnkleppan8454]

If you have a T3400, it will support 1333FSB Q9650/Xeon E5450. Pair with 8GB Ram. If you do not yet have the system, a T3500/T7500 gives you faster CPU and Ram options.

[@lisov4575]

What about the fact that the motherboard don't support Xeons? Is there a microcode update for BIOS?

[@johnkleppan8454]

X3370 is currently the same price as Q9650, $52 US. 3.0GHZ. Runs on latest BIOS. Both are 775 sockets. 2x6MB L2 cache.2.83GHZ X3360 or Q9550 next best for $30. Unless you already own a T3400/T7400 workstation, the T7500 is a much better platform to build on. Supports dual W series 6-core xeons and ECC memory, just look for one with dual CPU option already installed, the heatsink/memory/CPU modules are cost prohibitive.

[@WilfredBrimleyGaming]

thats what i figured, also depending on the motherboard these can be easy overclocks. my 2.4ghz q6600 is oc'd to 3.0 on air without any voltage increase.

[@VadelGame]

THAT AGE OF EMPIRES II! OMG you bring me so much nostalgia. Thanks!

[@alignedguide6553]

the Q8200 was meant as a budget cpu,and it's not as powerful,as the flagship meant Q6600

[@JailerGamer]

AlignedGuide65 its the dell mobos fault

[@BlackburnBigdragon]

When I saw the title for this and also saw the thumbnail for this video, all I wanted this video to be about was a computer tower running through a jungle, finding some ancient jungle tomb, dodging crazy traps, using it's power cable as a whip, swinging across things, grabbing a treasure, running through a jungle being chased by natives, and making all kinds of daring escapes. I seriously don't know what Dunkin' Donuts put in my coffee today.

[@AchinonPL]

I think u kinda messed up the FPS count on 4:44

[@mrjapiapian8126]

Hey Green, have you thought about looking into the RX480 (preferably a custom one).

[@qwertyuiopas4165]

wait is that song from Shenmue (dreamcast)! classic

[@SpagheddiO]

Sooooo close to 100,000 subs! Been here since 200! Australia FTW!

[@RafaCoprimo]

I think this rig didn't did too well in the greenmarks because it was missing it's cigarette :)

[@99domini99]

I have experimented with the Q8200 as well, and noticed similar results. Graphics card I used was a GTX 950. I do not have a Q6600 to test with though, but it's a strange story.

[@itailevin]

4gigs ram is not enough for modern gaming

[@OrangeCat__]

8 is the bare minimum

[@itailevin]

Creeperlover2001 ikr

[@alexvar10]

איתי לוין I still use a computer with 2GB of RAM 😭

[@690_5]

Be careful buddy. Remember the spiders out there? Don't get killed.

[@jhonnysrivera2002]

4GB of ram is nothing today bro

[@salehmg7650]

i don't know why but everytime i watch a video on this channel i get this nostalgic feeling......that i can't get anywhere else.

[@omfgursodumb]

I tried fallout 4 with 4 gs of ram and it ran horribly. try 8 gs

[@Russell970]

yeah 8

[@snchez2106]

stop it, seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you? Are you are professional on annoying people?

[@CoDZockerLP]

+Horizon Gamers stop annoying

[@Russell970]

I think you're the real annoying guy here , because you replayed all my comments

[@twentynepenguins271]

Congratulations on 100 000 subscribers!! 🎆🎉

[@liamthebull]

RAM

[@androidcow1234]

Best video I've seen for a while! Great job!

[@kakoka1pro]

I'm early, so let me think of a joke... .

[@Russell970]

ok take your time

[@xxrobohorse64xx]

He's sure taking a while

[@literallyablackscreen7955]

+Crackhead jack yeah

[@hastur8601]

Peter Steele, is that you?

[@radiotalkshowhost]

I don't get it

[@Arthur-ej5gi]

100,000 subs hell yeah!! GHGTV IS AWESOME!!!

[@Daniel-yf2ri]

4 mins too late

[@Russell970]

:D

[@AndrewPeddie]

So close to 100,000 subs !! Looking forward to the celebration video.

[@intisol4128]

I love you but come on. Get a ps4 if you want the easy life? If you want the easy life just don't buy old used tech. That ending just "proved" to all console gamers that pc is complicated as hell and not worth their time. 99% of the time everything will work perfectley and will be just as easy as going out and getting a console.

[@benlandry1107]

Congrats on 100,000 subs! You'll have 1M in no time!

[@van4928]

Congrats on 100.000 subs Tim!!

[@user-qt1ju1pe1b]

CONGRATS ON 100K TIM!!!!!👻👍

[@OrangeCat__]

congrats on 100k, keep it up, your vids are excellent

[@HardwareHackers]

Love the scenic shots in the forest lol!! bet that gets you some funny looks? Ive got a spare Q6600 lying around really need to get a spare motherboard for it and do a build of some sort!

[@InukW]

congratz on 100 000 subscribers!!

[@Isaax]

GHG's videos are just such a pleasure

[@Schizo_Souls]

Love this comes out in the morning for me. Nothing like waking up to Green Ham Gaming in the early hours

[@Caswell_Official]

My first thought is that your CPU might be thermal throttling. What do your temps look like? I'd also swap out the power supply. And are you absolutely positive you connected the HDMI to your GPU and not your motherboard?

[@herb3629]

congrats on 100k subs i really love your videos keep up the amazing work

[@Skarfar90]

I must say.. I suspect that the motherboard itself may be the culprit here.. If you get similar results with different graphics cards, and different cpu's as well, there must be some issues internally Anyways, a nice video like always, and I really liked the nostalgic Rayman music in the background

[@xxtriplex95]

It is a dell tower workstation it was originally ment for software with Grafic work such as: 3DS Max, Maya,Photoshop, Unity etc. I had the chance to work on those machines at my faculty in the "Graphic Animation" class founded Ubisoft, they even told us not to play games because, even they wore hight specs, they WILL NOT handle it. "Mine" Had a 6GB ram DDR3, Xeon Dualcore and the Quadro 4000 gpu(resulted in 600fps in 3ds max). I repeat Do not buy them they will not handle gaming. sry for bad english.

[@chrisdel87]

my lovely memories of The Age of Empires came back when watching your vídeo...

[@MrMental6001]

The Rayman sounds and music sent me on a right nostalgic trip

[@itsneight1260]

I love your videos @Green Ham Gaming... they are like no other tech style in that you tell a story of sorts with each one. Didn't even take 90 seconds for this thumbs up.

[@itsneight1260]

LULULUL at the smoking computer

[@apex2504]

Yaas 100k well done GHG!

[@hikrar14]

Congratulation on 100.000 subscriber Tim i hope you have a nice and great looking day :D

[@chasefive5]

CONGRATS ON 100,000 BUDDY

[@emucity284]

Congrats on 100k Man!!!

[@HunterDillard]

I had a similar issue on a budget build. As it turns out *the power supply was slowly dying.* I recommend swapping out both the psu and the ssd with a new one. I say the ssd because *the ssd's controller chip may be bad.* Samsung has been known to cheap out on the evo lineup of ssds. :)

[@endermist1057]

Congratz on 100k subs!!!

[@Mrstickz]

1 of your best vids man. Really like your style :D

[@devin8577]

Nice video, but I'm curious: is DDR2 RAM significantly slower than DDR3 (and other later variants)? You only went for 4 GB RAM as well. I'm pretty sure GTA V and The Witcher 3 both require a minimum of at least 6 GB of RAM. 8 GB RAM has been set as the standard for modern PC gaming, so I'm pretty interested in how much of a difference there would be with more RAM installed.

[@kakoka1pro]

100K Subs, wow! Subbed while you were 90K! So special, right?? No but seriously, congrats.

[@StickermanChronicles]

Gotta love the Dell Prescison, I have a T3500 with a quad core Xeon cpu, 11GB ram, 2TB drive and a GTX 1050. Plays games like a dream, cost a total of £270 for the whole lot and runs better than an Xbox One. Considering the cpu is almost 10 years old it still performs like a beast.

[@Brian_Buckley]

did you adjust anything in that Dell Bios to take advantage of the new chip? was the processor being detected properly? hyper threading enabled? disabled? what speed was the Ram running at? what was the bus speed of that PCI-E socket?

[@ameanie6978]

Nice video :)) As much as I love long, drawn out content which have been edited for hours and look fantastic, but considering it took well over 2 minutes to even get to the actual content, it is just not efficient to watch. don't get me wrong it was a gr8 build up with the jungle and mystery theme. still it's at best 3 minutes content stretched more than double the time. but it's your unique style and I think it's fitting with the soft voice you're using. well that's my feedback. you have to decide for yourself if to keep it and spent the time editing or just make it a bit more basic. audio 8.5/10 video 8/10

[@Brunkoh]

great job on 10k (:

[@MPC12345678]

Congratz on 100K!

[@wretchedslippage3255]

another long awaited amazing video. thanks, man

[@jacoboblandonpineda]

Getting to know which font GHGtv uses for their videos is the number one thing to do on my bucket list. It looks beautiful!

[@Interrobang212]

I've been inspired by this channel. The motherboard in my current rig died, so I'm gutting it. I found a "junk" pc for $10, gutted all the interior. I'm taking my fx 8350 and gtx 960 (sorry, no Radeon), getting the ONLY mATX board on the market, and making a half new half "junk" pc out of it for a friend to use for photoshop and some 1080p games. My main machine is still going to be all sexy new parts though.

[@mtunayucer]

congrats on 100k sub m9 keep your good work up!