Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 - The Grandpa of Quad Cores, 15 Years Later!

Testing the Legendary Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU in 2022! I ran all of the 11 games at stock speeds to see what it's capable of without any tinkering... An overclocking video will come in the near future ;)

⏱ Timestamps ⏱

Intro, Specs, Stuff - 0:00
CSGO - 3:28
Cybercrash 2077 - 5:32
GTA 5 - 5:50
Fortnite - 7:54
Dota 2 - 10:18
Valorant - 11:42
Team Fortress 2 - 14:19
PUBG - 15:36
RUST - 17:11
Minecraft Java - 18:29
The Witcher 3 - 20:03
Battlefield 3 - 22:10
Conclusion - 24:24

🔧 SPECS 🔧

◽️ Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
◾️ Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 6GB - Palit
◾️ RAM - 8GB DDR2 800MHz (4x2GB) Dual Channel
◽️ OS - Windows 10 Pro
◽️ SSD - Kingston A400 480GB
◾️ Motherboard - Asus Maximus II Formula
◾️ PSU - XFX TS 550W
◾️ Case - my room

🎥 Recorded with a capture card and another PC for no FPS loss.

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[defyboom]

Rumours says that if AMD never existed we’d still be in quad core era

[inipito]

glad to see my father's cpu still kind of alive and a little capable

[HolloVVpoint]

Had this CPU back in 2007, it was beast and had so much room for overclocking. This was the go to CPU for everyone’s build even more than the 5800x3d or 7800x3d is now.

[HiddenRefuge]

Q6600's main advantage was overclocking. At it's time, all the dual cores had much higher per core performance but when multicore threading became a thing, Q6600 began to fare far better with overclocking and left them all in the back. I personally ran mine at 3, 2-3, 4ghz overclock and paired with an 750ti and then 1050ti, It did a very good job at running all the modern titles in 720p; 1080p was doable as well, although to get stable 60fps a bit of sacrificing was required. I did swap later to 1080p and mid or mid/low settings managed to run almost anything I threw at it with stable 60 frames paired with 1050ti.

All in all, along with the LGA775 platform - I consider it one of the best CPU's in history. They had a bit of a rough start but with advancing tech and programming they became pure gold, even years after their release.

[SecretAgentMilfordMeanswell]

Love these vids. always fun to see those old parts being used again, shows just how capable budget builds can be

[Jamestb]

Can't wait to see how the QX goes in a later video!

[erikkarsies]

I've bought one in 2008 for less than 200 euro. The g0 version which was really good in OC. Just by oc ing the bus I overclocked it to 3 ghz with no problems. But back then you didn't need that for gaming so i've mostly used it on 2.4 ghz

[AntonioAmaral]

This was like a 5900X today, and they also had a 5950X comparable, the "Core 2 Quad Extreme", was basically a Core2Quad with a little more clock...

[QwecySlim]

8:05 indeed that sounded like something else🤣🤣

[Eduardoboninisinhoretti]

Now you have to bring us the king of dualcores (775), the e8400, a legendary beast :D

[ishigamiray]

Would love to see you post a follow up video about this cpu and overclocking it!

[Mastermind]

This thing was crazy back in the day, the idea of four cpus in a single cpu was just mindblowing.

[franciscosantana]

I have a Q9550 with a r9 280x! Is performing perfectly! Microsoft flight simulator, Red dead Redemption 2, F1 2021, GTA V in ultra, etc… For the age that the processor has, and his price… is outstanding!

[BryanTheFury]

With a Q9650 Ocked at 3.5-3.6 you would see a lot of improvements! It's still a really good old QC CPU

[Bl-ud]

Always loved when it's Valorant turn to be tested and see this man hit those heads satisfyingly, gotta wonder if he plays competetively.

[wertywerrtyson]

Hyperthreading was a thing, in fact the Pentium 4 had HT before this CPU came out. Not sure why they couldn’t put HT on C2D and C2Q CPUs though.

[custodian]

Q6600 is my favorite cpu, used it from 2008 to 2019~, so glad to see if you overclock it)

[عبداللهالسعيد-حق]

Everybody is talking about how good this cpu was back in the day
But no one realized the legendary joke he was about to say at 8:07 but he didn't bec of YouTube 😂

[syx-to]

Absolutely love your Video! Didn't know the Q6600 could handle GTA V and Rust quite well. I'd like to see you make a video on the Intel i3 530 (Duo Core, 3.0 Ghz) which was the first i3 cpu to be ever released and I still have that as a Secondary Cpu but would like to see how different games run on this 10 year+ old cpu

[mclarenfgtr]

This CPU really deserves an OC to 3 to 4GHz and run on W7 where it really belongs. But it is a real shame that it doesn't support SSE4.1 to test newer titles. That said, hope you can test a Q9xxx for a future video.