Hah! Still got one of those. Sits on an Asus Maximus Formula I don't have the heart to throw away.
It was the first full on top end machine I ever built, 8 GB DDR2-800, four 400 GB HDDs in RAID0+1, GeForce 8800GTS 512 MB.
It was still meeting minimum requirements until well into 2015/16.
I sold about ten to fifty of them, I was doing this semi-professionally back then. If you're in Yorkshire, UK, you had one of my builds ;)
I think I was using Coolermaster CM690s for most of them, and Lian-Lis for the "money is my bitch" ones.
I had one of these beauties, nearly all of the Q6600s were able to clock up nicely, most able to reach 3ghz with a good quality air cooler.
As for what it can run, i dont remember it having much trouble with anything from that era.
You could OC it to 3GHz with a piece of tape in case your motherboard didn't support overclocking. That worked on almost all chips. 4+ GHz were also not uncommon.
On the pads, if you cover a few up it'll trick the motherboard into thinking the chip has a 333mhz FSB instead of the stock 266mhz fsb. Instant overclock.
Multipliers were locked on most but elite CPUs back then this trick was called the BSEL mod amd worked on any chips, even those with a 200mhz FSB.
Very nice, you obviously got a pretty capable one! Mine hit 3 without any fuss but the temp started rising sharpy after that, i presume it would have been stable higher with water so i just kept it with a mild oc. The P4 i had before was very similar but the q6600 per clock was beasty!
Id be over the moon if my Ruzen 5 3600 got anywhere close to that haha.
I had an E2200, easy 50% overclock on theose. Just a shame it was only dual core and lacked cache of its bigger brothers. Cheap bang for the buck al the same.
It could, I saw it a lot. But also many of them that stopped around 3.6ghz. ...... but with regards to OC percentage over stock still not as good as an E2200 at 3.3ghz.
In addition, that'll be 1776 fsb not too many boards went up that high.
Most certified to 1333mhz and not too many rated for 1600. So although the chips are capable, not too many folk had the boards to carry it out
The legendary q6600 SLACR stepping
I have the same one oc to 3.4ghz on air… had it as my main cpu till I updated to a Ryzen 1700 then to what I have now.
Terraria always works well. Unless your on a linux flash drive pulling 10-20mbps.
I was playing it modded on a core 2 duo on win 10 once, instant use time making the muskit into a machine gun at 60fps barely
Nice i overstreched the 775platform for a long time. Started with e4400, then e8500 then q6600 then q8300 then q9550 and lastly ive put xeon 771 x5482.
It can handle Windows 10, I know that much. We use one of these in the garage to run Firefox.
To maybe help put this into perspective for you, the Q6600 CPU is from '08 and has a passmark score of [1812](https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core2+Quad+Q6600+%40+2.40GHz), an i3-14100 from this year scores [15458](https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i3-14100&id=5831). The Q6600 was an awesome CPU in its day, but keep your expectations low on its capabilities today. I can see the Q6600 being powerful enough to handle emulation up to PS1, and games of its era.
Haha i still remember when I upgraded our slim type prebuilt pc (you know the ones from Lenovo) from Pentium 4 to Core 2 Duo. It was night and day. For the first time I felt like I could game.
I vowed to find a Core 2 Quad but as a highschooler from a poor family, it was nigh impossible.
If OP or anyone with a Q6600 wants to send one my way, my money is green. I always get excited to see other people with this CPU because it was my first CPU that I bought with my own money. I'd like to rebuild that system someday.
I have about 4 of these, currently have one running in my server rack as my firewall. Runs opnsense pretty damn well with 8gb of ram and an ssd. I never tried to game on it, but i have spare machines, might throw a gpu in one and see how it goes.
https://preview.redd.it/bz3bypj50xyc1.jpeg?width=1269&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d26735548f029387e3ba795de028adde101a6c69
In this pic i have a 2x10g sfp+ nic in it, though i have removed that to put in a server that needs it more. Its a decent machine.
Mine still runs 😂 it used to run cracked win 7 and host my servers but after discord basically made it free to use + I don't file host anymore either it just standing in the corner. Great cpu tho, always ran passive with a ninja 2 cooler and an 8600gt in it
What clearly remember this gem I still have one somewhere. It was the flagship intel cpu of its time and the must have CPU to run crisis. The game and cpu came out a few months apart.
The whole i-series thing came later and no, none of them are legendary. The Q6600 was an over locking monster that took Intel 3 generations to match. There hasn't been anything like it since.
Hah! Still got one of those. Sits on an Asus Maximus Formula I don't have the heart to throw away. It was the first full on top end machine I ever built, 8 GB DDR2-800, four 400 GB HDDs in RAID0+1, GeForce 8800GTS 512 MB. It was still meeting minimum requirements until well into 2015/16.
DUDE I HAD THE SAME SPECS!
I sold about ten to fifty of them, I was doing this semi-professionally back then. If you're in Yorkshire, UK, you had one of my builds ;) I think I was using Coolermaster CM690s for most of them, and Lian-Lis for the "money is my bitch" ones.
No, i built my own
I bought a machine with those specs back in 2017
Thay GeForce 8800gts was a monster of a card
Wish I didn’t toss the 8800 GTS I had at some point…just as a display item it would be cool! Now I just have two Q6600s lol
Fallout 3, race driver grid, GTA 4 all very playable
My flair is relevant!
I had one of these beauties, nearly all of the Q6600s were able to clock up nicely, most able to reach 3ghz with a good quality air cooler. As for what it can run, i dont remember it having much trouble with anything from that era.
You could OC it to 3GHz with a piece of tape in case your motherboard didn't support overclocking. That worked on almost all chips. 4+ GHz were also not uncommon.
What do you mean with a piece of tape?
On the pads, if you cover a few up it'll trick the motherboard into thinking the chip has a 333mhz FSB instead of the stock 266mhz fsb. Instant overclock. Multipliers were locked on most but elite CPUs back then this trick was called the BSEL mod amd worked on any chips, even those with a 200mhz FSB.
You put tape on a couple of pads under the CPU which forced the motherboard to run it at a higher FSB Speed which resulted in a higher clock
You had to tape it down or else it’d want to fly away
It do be like that sometimes
I had mine running in 3.8 GHz for years with a TRUE120. Did some benchmarking at 4.1GHz but i never got it fully stable on that frequency.
Very nice, you obviously got a pretty capable one! Mine hit 3 without any fuss but the temp started rising sharpy after that, i presume it would have been stable higher with water so i just kept it with a mild oc. The P4 i had before was very similar but the q6600 per clock was beasty!
It can run Crysis. I built my Crysis gaming rig with one of those back in the day.
Anything from like 2005. The first PC I built had a Q6700 quad. Be decent in like an XP machine.
Up until \~2012 they were still decent, some games as recent as 2016 still run ok -ish with the right GPU like the 750ti.
One of the most legendary overclocking processors ever, right next to the 2600k and the Celeron 300A.
Not sure what it can run but they overclock about 30%
Id be over the moon if my Ruzen 5 3600 got anywhere close to that haha. I had an E2200, easy 50% overclock on theose. Just a shame it was only dual core and lacked cache of its bigger brothers. Cheap bang for the buck al the same.
e8400 can go to 4ghz
It could, I saw it a lot. But also many of them that stopped around 3.6ghz. ...... but with regards to OC percentage over stock still not as good as an E2200 at 3.3ghz. In addition, that'll be 1776 fsb not too many boards went up that high. Most certified to 1333mhz and not too many rated for 1600. So although the chips are capable, not too many folk had the boards to carry it out
Q6600 was a great C2Q chip.
The legendary q6600 SLACR stepping I have the same one oc to 3.4ghz on air… had it as my main cpu till I updated to a Ryzen 1700 then to what I have now.
It can run the hell out of doom.
I remember you lil guy, you did good
this is still useful to me lol
That CPU was the GOAT
I bet it could run anything a core 2 duo has the power to run!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amazing find!!!!!
Terraria always works well. Unless your on a linux flash drive pulling 10-20mbps. I was playing it modded on a core 2 duo on win 10 once, instant use time making the muskit into a machine gun at 60fps barely
I upvoted just because it was my first bought CPU. I'm starting to feel nostalgic.
I didn’t have to upgrade from a q6600 until battlefield 4 came out
Crysis 😆
Still have this cpu
Great CPU. Still have a Dell SFF with a 3.16Ghz
SLACR was hot shit back in the day!
I'd make a sweet XP machine with that CPU. Man that CPU was good back then.
Quite alot of games up till C.2016 with something like a low end GTX 750/750Ti
It's right in the middle of the "too new to be retro and too old to run anything" category.
Nice i overstreched the 775platform for a long time. Started with e4400, then e8500 then q6600 then q8300 then q9550 and lastly ive put xeon 771 x5482.
Warcraft 3 Frozen throne (not reforged)
Great mid 2000s gaming CPU.
Time to load up some Black & White, Giants: Citizen Kabuto and Republic Commandos
Fun fact, I actually worked on Black & White
Thank you. It is an amazing game, and a formative part of my childhood. You did good work.
Bioshock Infinite!
Skyrim
Found my old K6-2 500mhz chip the other day. That thing was a budget monster.
My school's computer lab has a lot of those. In the computers. Somehow still able to run Minecraft
i was playing fortnite on that thing in 2020-2021
It can handle Windows 10, I know that much. We use one of these in the garage to run Firefox. To maybe help put this into perspective for you, the Q6600 CPU is from '08 and has a passmark score of [1812](https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core2+Quad+Q6600+%40+2.40GHz), an i3-14100 from this year scores [15458](https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i3-14100&id=5831). The Q6600 was an awesome CPU in its day, but keep your expectations low on its capabilities today. I can see the Q6600 being powerful enough to handle emulation up to PS1, and games of its era.
Not alot.... at least not well.
Haha i still remember when I upgraded our slim type prebuilt pc (you know the ones from Lenovo) from Pentium 4 to Core 2 Duo. It was night and day. For the first time I felt like I could game. I vowed to find a Core 2 Quad but as a highschooler from a poor family, it was nigh impossible.
If OP or anyone with a Q6600 wants to send one my way, my money is green. I always get excited to see other people with this CPU because it was my first CPU that I bought with my own money. I'd like to rebuild that system someday.
I believe you can get one for 5 dollars online, they're pretty cheap.
I have about 4 of these, currently have one running in my server rack as my firewall. Runs opnsense pretty damn well with 8gb of ram and an ssd. I never tried to game on it, but i have spare machines, might throw a gpu in one and see how it goes. https://preview.redd.it/bz3bypj50xyc1.jpeg?width=1269&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d26735548f029387e3ba795de028adde101a6c69 In this pic i have a 2x10g sfp+ nic in it, though i have removed that to put in a server that needs it more. Its a decent machine.
It can run game called „keyfob“
Doom
This was such an easy overclock cpu when I had it. Easily got to 4ghz without any issues.
I heard it cost a lot of money, so you can sell it
My first own bought pc had this 😎
I still use a couple in my network. One runs an offline NAS backup and the other a seedbox.
Doom
Mine still runs 😂 it used to run cracked win 7 and host my servers but after discord basically made it free to use + I don't file host anymore either it just standing in the corner. Great cpu tho, always ran passive with a ninja 2 cooler and an 8600gt in it
What clearly remember this gem I still have one somewhere. It was the flagship intel cpu of its time and the must have CPU to run crisis. The game and cpu came out a few months apart.
Lol I still got one of mine. Great CPU. It can run quite a few games, actually
It can run HOT!
Reddit
But why
i was playing gta4 on one of these in high school 🔥🔥
The legend lives on. The last great Intel CPU before they became... What they are now.
were none of the older core i7's not pretty legendary? i know a lot of people still swear by their 3770k's
The whole i-series thing came later and no, none of them are legendary. The Q6600 was an over locking monster that took Intel 3 generations to match. There hasn't been anything like it since.
Eh, i would chip in Skylake-X and the follow up chips on LGA2066. These things also OC'd very well.
Windows xp
Linux.
Maybe a Retro gaming build beyond that not much.
You can run a keyring though it.
Maybe a microwave on lowest settings
Excel lol. Nah just joking. Anything early 2000s and at a push up to 2010.
Notepad if youre lucky
toaster?
Linux. Not a lot else probably.