intel Q6600 in 2015?

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so, taking apart an office server, and the heart is an intel mATX board with a Q6600 on it. and two sticks of ram, maybe 1G. it's 2015, almost 2016 now actually. is this "thing" still viable for someone for something (i'd sell it), or does my water bottle have more processing power?
 
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it's actually still good for a lot of uses. won't be a high end gaming cpu but it still has a lot of life left at the lower end. i have one paired with an r9-270 and it handles most everything i thrown at it at 1080p. not getting 200 fps but nothing to complain about.

as a web/streaming machine it is more than capable. office suite? no problem there either.

edit: i should note i have 4 gb of ram installed which helps a good bit with the multi tasking and gaming.
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it's actually still good for a lot of uses. won't be a high end gaming cpu but it still has a lot of life left at the lower end. i have one paired with an r9-270 and it handles most everything i thrown at it at 1080p. not getting 200 fps but nothing to complain about.

as a web/streaming machine it is more than capable. office suite? no problem there either.

edit: i should note i have 4 gb of ram installed which helps a good bit with the multi tasking and gaming.
 
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The Q6600 is still a pretty decent CPU. My old Q9450 is now sitting in my HTPC which former had a Core 2 Duo E 6400 (or something similar). For everyday usage it is fine. It can still be used to play games, but expect it to be a bottleneck for relatively powerful modern GPUs.

As for monetary value... a used Q6600 generally sells for $15 - $45 depending on the source. Is it worth it to build a PC around it and sell it? Not really, unless you can find a gullible person that you really do not mind taking advantage of.
 
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I have my q6600 OCed to 3.4Ghz, with 8GB of memory and a 7950 3GB graphics card.

Plays a new game like evolve at high settings.

bf3 at near max unless a 64 player server.

SCII at max, and I see no reason why it will not play the 3rd installment of SCII at max also.

All at 1080 and running two secondary monitors to show temps, fps, and load.

I build this computer in 2008 and am amazed at how well it has held up. Upgraded memory from 4 to 8 a few years back. In the past year or so I have added the 7950 (it will be this systems 3rd gfx card), And a SSD really kept it up to speed.

If you want to sell it I would be happy to buy it for a low price, :)
 
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I just got my Dell XPS Studio back from the repair shop, replaced PS and gave it a good tuneup. The thermal paste was all dried up for one thins. I run older versions of my apps Office 2010 and Protools 8. But am running the Adobe Creative Suite programs, incuding the 64 bit Photoshop and Premier Pro for video editing. It's solid.

But I never know this proc supported 64 bit - it shipped with Vista, and i upgraded to 7 when it came out. But no where was the option mentioned - on the Dell site or any other reviews I read. If I woulda known, would have gotten 8GB RAM right away. I would like to know how well Win 8 would do, but I have the feeling I should just stay put.

 
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after reading all this, and thinking about my options, and picking up two old machines for $20 total, i am leaning towards keeping it and doing a dual-boot of Win2k and LinuxMint. since neither OS requires an online authentication, they'll be great for experimenting with stuff to the point of breaking and having to re-install time and time again. if i'm feeling REALLY adventurous, i might triple-boot with WinXP as well.

i already have two sufficiently good gaming machines, and one of the two "new" ones from that $20 deal will end up being a Win98SE dual-booting with WinXP (since it was originally a WinXP anyways, so i have the key code that matches it). only 512M of ram, so plenty for 98SE but marginal for XP.
 
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Would you mind telling me what motherboard you are running, and what max ram you can get? I have a 10 year old Dell with the Q6600 in it, and I gotta say that this processor is rock-solid. I've been considering doing a new computer build, but I don't really see the point. I think I can upgrade my mobo, get 8 or so GB of ram, and be good to go for another couple years.

Thanks,
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