Kind of amazing to see a Core 2 Quad running a brand new 2021 AAA game at playable framerates there at the end. It's no wonder so many people are still clinging onto Sandy Bridge.

@CB27

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing too that the game runs well with only 4GB RAM

@BlueSkyYGO

3 жыл бұрын

Since RE7 capcom has a good graphical engine, i where playing 1080p near 60fps with an R7 260X with good quality

@mediapc4924

2 жыл бұрын

Still with ivy, core 2 quad, and Xeon Mod 771

@mementocity

2 жыл бұрын

the only thing holding them back is the lack of sse 4.2 instructions, which is mostly used by anticheats and drms like denuvo

@SviatoslavDamaschin

2 жыл бұрын

@@mementocity Well if you wanna be a good Samaritan then buy the game and download a copy with without denuvo

Q6600, The only gift I know that never stops giving

@dikbozo

3 жыл бұрын

combined with the RX 570, two good things that work well together. long may they run.

@Synthematix

3 жыл бұрын

They’re not a patch on phenom II cpus

@brokeandtired

3 жыл бұрын

The CPU is being choked hard....It will cripple a RX570...Even my old i5 3470 was throttling it. If this is what you only have...this hack might squeeze a little more power out, but this CPU is obsolete.

@penguin5384

3 жыл бұрын

I'd have to agree a RX570 is way too new to pair with a Q6600, a HD4870 (or crossfired 4870, or 4870x2) would be a good match.

@shaneeslick

3 жыл бұрын

@@brokeandtired I don't think dikbozo meant to pair them, but that they are similarly 2 Parts that keep performing well as their performance to price was well above the norm

Oh boy, socket 775 content! Call me excited 😃

@A7XstefanA7X

3 жыл бұрын

Wasup, excited

@serbianwolfgaming9623

3 жыл бұрын

I still use it 😢

@Cher007

3 жыл бұрын

@@serbianwolfgaming9623 Same, for my secondary youtube/netflix PC it is perfectly fine :)

@serbianwolfgaming9623

3 жыл бұрын

@@Cher007 what cpu?

@Cher007

3 жыл бұрын

@@serbianwolfgaming9623 Core Quad Extreme QX9650 with a slight OC to about 3,6ghz (3,0 Stock). 8GB DDR2-800 and a lil 240gb SSD. Enough for all web and media activities!

I had an E6600 OC'd to the moon and played Crysis till dawn for about a week until I felt like one of those floating aliens.

@911Salvage

3 жыл бұрын

My E8600 was overclocked to the Mars. I could play two instances of Crysis on my rig while rendering a scene in Blender and still had room for some 720p porn.

@whygoogle5051

3 жыл бұрын

E8400 Here. Lasted until 2015!

Anyone remember the AMD Athlon and Duron processors that could be overclocked with a pencil?

@FrietjeOorlog

3 жыл бұрын

I OC'ed two with real silver paint. Then a E6600 @ 3.3 GHz. No tape needed.

@Estanceviri

3 жыл бұрын

@@FrietjeOorlog i think taping is much easier than painting them.

@FrietjeOorlog

3 жыл бұрын

@@Estanceviri Athlons needed bridging. Not taping.

@Estanceviri

3 жыл бұрын

I don't think E6600 is an athlon model? IK athlons needed bringing it was about L1 or something

@FrietjeOorlog

3 жыл бұрын

@@Estanceviri The E6600 is an Intel Conroe. OC'ed via bios. No need for this tape trick on a decent motherboard.

[The Q6600 can be overclocked with tape] Mistakes were made.

@mhamadzrar1744

3 жыл бұрын

Nice Modern vintage gamer reference

@PCMrTrickster

3 жыл бұрын

What is the last game in the movie?

@ukxcal5641

3 жыл бұрын

@@PCMrTrickster last game in the video is the new Resident Evil Village :)

@raven4k998

Ай бұрын

seriously why overclock that pos when I new old cpu will do far better like a core i anything🤣🤣

I have a dozen motherboards spanning 3 decades and a whole pile of cpus. Your videos are one of the main reasons my collection of old hardware continues to grow.

@shaneeslick

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah Phil gives me lots of ideas for 'Playtime' with older PC parts too 😁

There are different BSEL mods for different CPUs, but this one for the Q6600 is one of my favs. 👍

I've done this on several OEM PCs I've flipped. Glad you took tested it. I saw a post somewhere where someone tested it with Q6700 and some other CPUs, but I think others were less successful. It seems the Q6600 is always consistent with this mod.

@shaneeslick

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, as it makes the C2Q run at 3GHz it is much cheaper than buying a C2Q9650 as an upgrade for similar performance

@averyoldYoutubeuser

2 жыл бұрын

@@shaneeslick the Q9650 is built on 45nm process which is still much better than the 65nm process on the Q6xxx

@shaneeslick

2 жыл бұрын

@@averyoldKZreaduser Yep that is why I said 'Similar Performance' because when I test my ones at 3GHz with my G33 Mobo, DDR2-800 & GTX260/460 there is not an astounding difference as the GPU is the Bottleneck, either that or Retro Games hit their FPS Limit. although I would like to get a Gigabyte G41M-Combo so I can do some DDR2 to DDR3 comparisons with both to see if the C2Q9650 can use the extra RAM Bandwidth better than the C2Q6600, plus maybe Bench them with W7 or W10 & a newer GPU like my RX580, but I would need to pull that out of my Gaming PC.

@averyoldYoutubeuser

2 жыл бұрын

@@shaneeslick oh true, your GPU is exactly the bottleneck so you didn't see the difference between the two CPUs. For me to get the most out of those lga775 CPUs they should be paired with DDR3 mobo and at least with 4gb RAM or more, also with a decent enough GPU, running windows 10 x64 on SSD. Now I only have a GT610 and a much worse GeForce 210, a G41 DDR3 board from MSI to test out the performance of my chips.

You touched on other CPU overclocks. I recently got into checking out a few Phenom II CPUs. I got a Phenom II X2 B57 a few months back for $9. To my surprise, it unlocked X4 perfectly and overclocked to 4ghz. I think there is a bit of content that could be had along the AM2+/AM3 line of CPUs, especially when it comes to overclocking, unlocking and how much the AMD chipset allows you to tweak. Thanks for going back to old stuff!

@philscomputerlab

3 жыл бұрын

Just insane the idea of unlocking cores :D I miss those days.

@em0_tion

2 жыл бұрын

You make me regret selling my AMD Phenom II X6 1100T, that thing was a fucking beast - zero lags snappy AF even under full AIDA64 load. 😘

Nice classic mod there!, I have heard of this many years ago but was living the Pentium 4 life back in the Q6600's heyday

This is the BSEL mod. Quite an old and well documented one. It was also used in conjunction with the Harpertown Xeons.

Wow, this is some old school OC tech! Reminds me of putting some graphite across a few contacts on my Thunderbird!

@jeroeniemans

3 жыл бұрын

THE PENCIL MOD

Perfect timing yet again. I have my parents old Q6600 sitting in the workshop, will try the tape trick 👍

@ProcessedDigitally

3 жыл бұрын

let us know your findings

@RahmanRudianto

3 жыл бұрын

Keep updating!!

@jedrula77

3 жыл бұрын

but be carefully, OC Q6600 8MB (65nm 2x real silicon E6600 C2D4MB) can easy eat 300-420W from wall. First check Motherboard and max TDP. For 4 power phases on cheap MOBO better dont run OC on 65nm QUADs. Better choice is a XEON 45nm. Work perfect on cheap motherboards, but need mod bios for update CPU ID. I try ready for XEONs bioses but not working. I made myself with only 2 libraries od CPUIDs for XEON and desktopand work perfect. I have WEON for LGA 775-Q6600 and work with 3.5-3.6GHz but eat to much W. When i use IntelBurnTest wathometer show mee 440W with idle GTX 9800 XD No graphics card in use- i scared to run OCCT... I have moded (delid +laping + L. metal) GTX 480 but i dont pair with this Wathungry monster XD Only GTX480 with max OC eat 550W from wall on ENERMAX GOLD PSU!!! And who say is 700-850W PSU (best gold or platinum) is to much in 2012 year is dumbas XD

@anisimow

3 жыл бұрын

Updates?

@snaj9989

3 жыл бұрын

@@jedrula77 Umm, I did that mod for a HP prebuild which worked great. It only had a 300w PSU though. Paired with HD5770 I was able to play Minecraft and CS:GO. That PSU was working at its limits but the CPU itself isn't something that can succ 300w from the wall. The mod is super simple though, 2 minutes for cutting the tape and free performance.

It's too bad those "overclock your CPU with this one weird trick" type clickbait articles didn't exist back then because they'd actually be telling the truth. Tape, pencils, lacquer, you name it.

@evefavretto

3 жыл бұрын

I do remember something about overclocking Athlons with...a pencil.

@Donnerwamp

3 жыл бұрын

@@evefavretto Yeah, I've gotten one of those old chips just to experience it myself. Pretty amazing what tricks used to work.

@kbhasi

3 жыл бұрын

And I imagine some people at Intel wouldn't have been happy, to say the least.

@jedrula77

3 жыл бұрын

@@evefavretto hahaha 0.5mm soft graphite automatic pencil, 10 min work and voilà from 600-650MHz to 800-950MHz AMD DURON welcome for free :D:D:D

@selohcin

3 жыл бұрын

@@jedrula77 That's incredible. It's too bad we can't do that on today's CPUs.

Brings back memories of my own Q6600 OCed to 3,6Ghz with a ASUS P5K-E. Great times

Duc Tape works in computers in space and beyond always bring one with you at anytime.

Our homestudio PC is running the Q6600 at 3.6ghz with a passive cooler. After 13 years still running silent and stable! I know this is just pure luck. The Q6600 was an absolute beast in old days for gaming and not even that expensive.

@smeghead666

3 жыл бұрын

Not luck my man, these things were monsters. Q6700 @ 3.33ghz 8 hours a day for about 11 years or so, godly

I remember mine running at 3.6 Ghz with an Asus Silent Knight 2 cooler. A whopping 50% overclock. No tape needed. I believe my motherboard was an Asus P5Q Pro. Those were good times for PC gaming.

I've used this to ramp up several Dell office systems, an awesome little mod!

The Q6600 was a beast in its day. I've heard of some people using it as their daily driver for over a decade. This tape overclocking trick could potentially add some more life to an older workstation. Pretty cool.

@jb678901

Жыл бұрын

11 years for me...6 of it with that BSEL mod! Other upgrades on that rig...32 Bit (Vista) to 64 Bit (Win 8.1 Pro) + the new OS on an SSD.

this video brings so much nostalgia I still have a q6600 lying around along with a 771 xeon

Still got my Q6600 and a couple 775 motherboards in the closet somewhere. I might dig them out and try this.

@whssy

3 жыл бұрын

Still got mine too. Sadly the only spare GPU I had for it is a GTX6800 so it's not really useful for anything other than watching Netflix.

I did this not with tape cause I always worried about the socket pin so I would use a dap of finger nail polish, usually red color too so I can see it as well lol

My boy who's a computer resycler (I make a nice living on the side because of him) just throws stuff in when I buy from him, and he just gave me one of these guys. I'd like to do something with this CPU. Glad to see your posting again Phil, I haven't seen your videos pop up on my homepage lately for some reason.

@philscomputerlab

3 жыл бұрын

I lost my way a bit, too many Mini PC reviews, so KZread didn't recommend to you...

@Tech215Studios

3 жыл бұрын

@@philscomputerlab Yeah but Phil I'm subscribed to you, and I have been for prolly about 2 years now. That's something KZread needs to do a better job of. We should be able to rank our channel's we're subscribed too so we don't miss anything. ahhh now I see why the Bell is so important!! HaHa don't sweat it man, I have a channel too I put a good amount of effort into but for some reason I can't seem to put out video's on a weekly basis like i'd like too. It's so much work!!! LOL :)

I did this YEAAARSSSS ago. Back when this cpu was only 7 years old.

Up there for one of the most legendary modern day CPUs. Great little trick btw, cheers Phil! I had a Q5500 and took out from 2.8ghz to 3.6ghz on air with GA-P35-DS4 Gigabyte motherboard and 8GB DDR2 at 800mhz Dominator ram. I think I ran it oc'd at 1:1 then there was a bios toggle that stretched it a further 200mhz, this system ran like a dream for many years on air. I still have it around somewhere.

@em0_tion

2 жыл бұрын

That's a great setup. 🤘🍻

@Kynareth6

2 жыл бұрын

Do you mean Q9550, because there was never a CPU called Q5500 afair?

For someone who rarely do overclocks, i'm really pleased with this video...hope to see more like these with other of your(our) favorite platforms like X58 X79 etc...awesome vid as always!

Just tried this, worked like a charm, as a bi-product of my Packard bell motherboard using DDR3 tied to the FSB, the memory clock also went from 1066 to 1333, so, all around better, thank you for pointing this out :D

@philscomputerlab

3 жыл бұрын

Great to hear!

Oh wow, the Vostro 220. I think a Vostro 200 was my gaming PC until a bit less than three years ago! That bootup screen, those RAM sticks, that motherboard, it could easily have been my system. :D

I converted a lot of Xeons to 775 using "whispers" - thin self-adhesive contact converters to swap a few pins around - worked great - this vid reminds me of those, Plus filling in the laser cuts on original Athlons way, waaaaay back in the day.

@mediapc4924

2 жыл бұрын

And i am still using Xeon 771 to 775 which you mentioned... Hahaha... XEON L5420 is my favorite because has low TDP and big L2...

Ahhh the good old tape mod! I'm actually amazed that the q6600 can run RE8 at a playable frame rate.

Also connecting the pin 2 and 5(count pins after the notch) near the tape position motherboard side with aluminum tape can overclock a 200MHz bus speed unit(for example, E2140) to 266MHz. And when combined with the method in the video you get a 66.5% performance boost(200-333).

@cougar9902

Жыл бұрын

However, this will not work without Vcore mod, so it won't work. Also, if you manage to set 1.75+ V for this type of o/c, serious cooling will be necessary.

Huh. You're getting much better temps and power consumption than I did back then. That could've been attributed to several things like a slightly higher overclock, higher ambient temps, reducing fan speed for noise, and whatever else was installed. You did a good job! :) Don't remember the model, but I had a 965 chipset Gigabyte board that was originally paired with a C2D 6300. The Q6600 was its upgrade.

This is my favourite Intel socket platform

I'm glad you did this! I made a budget DELL optiplex Q6600 with the BSEL tape mod as a gaming system a few years back with 8gb of RAM at 800mhz and a GTX 750 and it did a lovely job

Ah, my q6600.. sweet memories :) only the 5900x I just got in to replace the 3770k I got inbetween felt quite as overpowered on release. (PS: That thing ran 3.2ghz @1600fsb day 1, messing around years later I got it up to 3.8, so glad I didn't fall for the C2D E8500 hype back then!)

4:53 That was vicious thing to do. I never noticed that "detail" in Crysis :)

Been running the Q6600 oc'd in bios in this machine since 2009! For a while I was at 3.2ghz, but after a bit had some crashing, and backed it down to 3ghz, although later I determined it was probably my cheap power supply causing the issues, but I just stayed at 3ghz. The Biostar T-power i45 mobo has been solid, and CPU temps are handled easily with a Xigmatech heat pipe cooler with 120mm fan. With 8gb DDR2 800 this system has served me well to say the least. I have done an SSD upgrade, and several video card upgrades over the years, from a Geforce 8800GTS 320mb -> 8800GT 512mb -> Radeon 4870 512mb -> Radeon HD 6970 2gb -> HD 7970 3gb (aka R9 280x). For 1080P gaming it can still do a respectable job on most modern titles with low or 2X AA (sometimes none if Framerate is too low), and Medium shadow details. About 3 years ago I started running triple screens @5760 X 1080 for sim racing and the system can handle it well in RaceRoom, Assetto Corsa, and amazingly Dirt Rally, and F1 2019 (shout-out to the codemasters game engine, which at medium details looks and runs great)! It struggles a bit (depending on the track) with iracing, and badly with Assetto Corsa Competizione & Kart Kraft. And Sadly some games like Doom Eternal, Forza Horizon 4, and a few others will just not run due to the lack of newer instruction sets.

So it basically turns it into a Q9650? Interesting, I never heard of this. Awesome

@ScienceAlliance

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah the BSEL tape mod is pretty crazy

@iVan123

3 жыл бұрын

not quite.. sure the clock is faster but every thing else kinda fall behind

@dhgodzilla1

3 жыл бұрын

@@iVan123 right it still has less Cache

@TheDemocrab

3 жыл бұрын

@@dhgodzilla1 And Penryn was a little bit faster than Conroe even with the same clocks/cache size thanks to a refined design.

@JorgeCarvalho_web_dev

3 жыл бұрын

@@dhgodzilla1 Just add some more tape :D

Wow, that brings me to the days i OCed my E6400 (upgraded from a P4) from 2.1 to 2.7 GHz via BSEL mod because the mobo i had it in was so cheap it didn't have overclock controls... Lots of fond memories of that chip.

the tape helped in the past to overclock my Q6600 in a Dell Optiplex 755 SFF.

@philscomputerlab

3 жыл бұрын

Nice :D

Reminds me of unlocking AMD Durons with a lead pencil. ... maybe you could do that in a video.

@troyr3345

3 жыл бұрын

man that was first comp i ever built myself and tinkered on 950mhz duron unlocked to 1ghz with the pencil trick brings back memories

one interesting thing is that right now that Q6600 is actually bandwidth constrained,going to DDR3 1333 would actually bring you around 320 in cinebench R15 because this is right now Q9550 but with DDR2 RAM levels of performance and CPU's like Q9550 and Q9650 can go to 4GHz which for SOTTR means around 80ish fps

Thanks Phil. I hope all is well with you. Enjoy your weekend 😀

@philscomputerlab

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, you too!

Phil, I had noted that the viewers asked for this content. Whether or not you intended to have it regardless, THANK YOU for listening to them and posting it! THIS is why we are here for you.

the funny thing is, if you never upgraded to a higher cpu and still use a core 2 quad processor and arent big into maxing out graphics in 1080p this chip still gets the job done.for people who just want to play games this paired with something like a gtx 960(because of cpu bottle neck with anything higher) and 8 gigs of ram will still be able to do what you want for 1080p lowish settings.I remember testing out a q6600 with 8 gigs of ram and a gtx 960 4gb model in GTA V,ran Cemu,Yuzu (wii-u and switch emulators) and they ran just fine in 1080p

Hi Phil!! We are getting there!!! Finally we are returning to the right path. PhilsComputerLab rebooting to its essence

@philscomputerlab

3 жыл бұрын

😃

I played GTA V with this on reasonable settings. My grandma has this now, but she doesn't know it.

@aintnomeaning

3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully your grandma with the Core 2 doesn't have a convo with my landlord about his Athlon 64 X2 🙏

@jamespradel7918

3 жыл бұрын

@@aintnomeaning why?

@jonchapman6821

3 жыл бұрын

@@aintnomeaning Athlon 64 X2’s were dogshit compared to the Core2Duo/Quads. So were the Phenoms.

I think the Core 2 Quad Q6600 is still a fairly strong CPU today. My older gaming PC has the Q9550, a slightly newer version of the Q6600 from a year later from Q1, 2008. It stock clock is 2.83ghz, but I was able to overclock that a bit to 3.26 ghz. It's about the same as the Q6600 but a higher fsb at 1333 mhz vs 1066 mhz. I remember that the Q6600 came out in 2007 when Windows Vista was the latest and greatest operating system.

I did this mod 5 minutes ago on my Dell Optiplex 755: swapped the E6550 for the old Q6600 SL9UM with tape mod - runs like a charm! Thank you Phil! I should have done this a long time ago, but you gave me the push! ;) It is paired with a Quadro K620 for Solidworks...

I am having a Dell Optiplex SFF PC with a q6600 inside as a multimedia TV hooked up to my TV. I will definitely test this out, as the bios is indeed preventing overclocking.

Yeah bsel tape pin modding is pretty great. As long as the cpu is stable at whatever voltage the motherboard gives out with that higher fsb, you can do this too any socket 775 processor actually, celerons, pentium dualcores (core 2 6000 series era, core 2 quads & ofc core 2 duo cpus as long as the motherboard supports the fsb natively on another processor or via overclocking.) I've done tape mod overclocking on a pentium dualcore e2160, many years after i stopped using it unfortunately. But boosted speed from 1.8 ghz too 2.4 ghz for free was pretty good. I do have a motherboard & ram combo that can overclock 775 processors really well now though. Just need a powersupply & i can start messing with it again. Highest clock I've reached with it is 4 ghz with a core 2 duo e8400 on a Asus p5q deluxe motherboard & ram is ocz reaper's 2x2 gb 1066 mhz ram in dual channel. Was a bit of a struggle too get it stable in dual channel initially past 3.9 ghz but figured out what needed tweaking for that.

Wow I like that mod. I need to try the tape method with my Q6700 :) and a big custom cooler. Thanks Phil for sharing it

@jonchapman6821

3 жыл бұрын

This mod would bump that up to 3.33GHz…sounds doable 👍🏻

Great Content. I was wondering if you were going to overclock with tape when you did the video with the Q6600 recently, and I was not disappointed. Keep up the great work.

Yey! The good old "tape mod"! :D

@dhgodzilla1

3 жыл бұрын

Red Green Approves!

@CptJistuce

3 жыл бұрын

Makes me nostalgic for the "pencil trick"

@oizomane

3 жыл бұрын

@@CptJistuce my beloved Duron/Athlon 🤪

@anomaly95

3 жыл бұрын

@@CptJistuce And where that didn't work, there was the conductive paint mod. Ahhh, the Athlon days...

The Core2Duo E7500 takes the same tape mod. It gets 3.67GHz out of it. The boost on the Q6600 is real. But any MB that can run 333fsb can usually run the Q9650 or Q9550 CPUs which perform better due to newer SSE4 instruction set, 12m cache, and 45nm process. The good Q6600 is the SLACR G0 stepping version. The SL9UM is the older B3 stepping and doesn't work as well if at all.

I heard of this when I had a motherboard with a broken overclock switch.. I couldn't overclock the cpu but never wanted to try it. Good video!

These stories bring back some old memories. The first Pentium I purchased was in a DELL pre-built back in 1995/6. Apparently, there was some BIG news that this CPU had a floating point decimal error (flaw) where the chip could be recalled under warranty. I called DELL and the lady told me it was a non-issue unless I was doing aeronautical or nuclear engineering and that they would not usually change out the chip,as this was deemed unnecessary. I told her I was a nuclear engineer (which is true), so they sent me the new CPU with an return package for the recalled chip. I immediately installed the new CPU so I could go about reading the news...doing my taxes...and playing some old game that I can no longer recall!!!!

I still have my OC undervolted setup from back then - Q6600 G0, ASUS Rampage Formula, 4GB Corsair Dominator 1066 kit, Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme, Corsair TX750W. 👌 Bought it specifically to test OC and play Crysis with my Galaxy 9800 GT 512MB with Thermalright HR-03 GT, back when the "Will it run Crysis?" wasn't even a thing. Sweet, sweet memories. 🤗 I was going to reassemble it soon for a Linux distro testing rig anyway, maybe I'll test this pin mod myself! Just probably with an UV mask, instead of tape. 😉 Thank you for the stroll down memory lane and the excellent suggestion! 🔥💖

Imagine not subscribing to this channel.

Deffo my favourite processor of all time... Beast it

Damn... Where you've been three days ago??? I've just upgraded from that CPU!

Finally u did the BSEL tape mod!! nice Phil. Love your videos. I also mod my Core 2 CPUs with these.

I have this for two years already. It works fine, and the temperatures are pretty normal.

Hah, the Dell Vostro lineup. I remember those fondly: When my Mums laptop died, she asked me to help her buy another PC and decided to get a Vostro 200 slim, so after talking with her about it and organising the order I paid for the price increase for Dell to upgrade her from the default Pentium Dual Core E2180 option (Which was also the CPU that I was running in my desktop at the time) to an Core 2 Duo E8300 and swapped the CPUs out when the PC got here, mum got her basically brand-new PC and I got a relatively cheap upgrade for my desktop. I also want to stress that I paid for the CPU upgrade and spoke with her about it beforehand. Best bit is as a business orientated PC, Dell didn't give a toss that we'd done that so as far as the warranty went we were still all good because it was all parts that Dell officially supported.

My Qx6700 was my first quad core CPU and that thing was a damn toaster! Especially when overclocked. I still run a socket 775 system with a Xeon E5450 pin mod for light work and some older games with a GTX 295.

@mesterak

2 жыл бұрын

I like the E5450 best among 771 modded to 775 CPUs.

This was the perfect video for me to watch this morning. I recently put an Q660 in an old HP prebuilt and am running benchmarks for a video comparing to a newer HP prebuilt. This gives me another way to un-bottleneck the Q6600. Thanks. (Lucky enough to be able to use 8GB of Ram 4x2Gb.)

@jb678901

3 жыл бұрын

I assume you are running a 64 bit OS today, else you will be OS capped at 3.6GB of RAM if still on 32 bit.

@ThatPaulGuy

3 жыл бұрын

@@jb678901 Most definitely. So far it has surprised me a bit, even running newer titles, (although at 30 fps no matter which resolution), but its been fun to tinker with.

@jb678901

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThatPaulGuy Ran mine for over a decade as my primary office PC. I upgraded GPU's 4 times throughout its life. From an 8800GT at its start to a GTX 1050 in the end.

I have that model Vostro in my closet at home, I know what I'm doing when I get home tonight. Thanks and great video as usual.

Oh I found out that this is a life saver for those who using OEM board that doesn't support overclocking

CPU from 2007 running resident evil village. Lock it to 30fps and you could totally play it, now that's longevity!

@whssy

3 жыл бұрын

I actually gamed (Arma 3, Witcher 2) in 4K for a while at 30-50fps on my Q6600 with a GTX 970. I do a lot of text editing so needed a hi res monitor.... Didn't upgrade my Q6600 until a couple of years after Witcher 3 came out and I got a Vega 64.

I still have a system with this cpu in it. been running it at 4005Mhz and 8GB DDR2 at 1066Mhz since 2007 on one of the first ASUS ROG boards they ever made on the 38X chipset. I really had the stretch the bus out to get it to 4005Mhz and am amazed all of the hardware still functions today. I use it as late duty gaming and media server. putting1TB ssd on a pci-e sata card made this system very snappy along with 12TB of spinning rust for media storage of coarse. Heck it has more storage than my main rig which tops out at only 9TB consisting of 1TB ssd and 8TB spinning rust lol.

Thank you for including RE8 demo gameplay in this video, please consider adding more new games in your future videos :) (ofc those which run on your tested hardware)

@philscomputerlab

3 жыл бұрын

It was a case of there being a modern demo version. Seems this is rare these days. I remember in the old days, every game had a demo you could run.

@h1tzzYT

3 жыл бұрын

@@philscomputerlab Yeah indeed, the only way to try most games these days is to get it on steam then refund or get pirated version, not sure why developers stopped doing those, its especially relevant for people who has slow rigs and have that uncertainty of running the game.

Noo why didn't you say "Hey guys, welcome to another video" I miss it!

@Dragonfire511

3 жыл бұрын

Greetings... Blerbs!

Tape on 775, solder or adapters on XEONS 771, graphite on AMD 462, wires and soldering adapters on Tualatin ... last days real scientist old sholl OC give so much fun. Today days click some options in BIOS, or push one AUTO OC button and finito with perm OC...

As soon as I saw the title I thought "That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard" but I was wrong.

@philscomputerlab

3 жыл бұрын

😅

Setting up a Q6600 on a Packard Bell system for my sister as we speak, will definitely try this :D

Tried it out myself when I still had a Dell Optiplex that accepted Q6600. Worked as described.

Massive overclock with my e4300 back in the day.

The last Great socket ever made 775 is a legend This was a very common way of oc-ing back in the day when using OEM machines Most of the time we went using socket 771 Xeons and modding them and adding instruction to our os and mobo to use them properly Its important to know which chipset to sue with which CPU as much as i can remember the P45 was the best but it didnt have DDR3 which was mostly used for breaking records BUT there were fast DDR2 modules that went to 1200mhz and beyond btw you (Phil) should really learn how to OC

I may try this later on similar DELL Core2quad after some google search. You sound very knowledgeable and convincing. Thanks for the tip

Thé BSEL mod was popular back in the day ;it was very rewarding easy to make and temporary with no harm to the CPU or the motherboard ; this mode worked with many core duo processors even celeron 400 and you can obtain an overclock of the FSB from 800 to 1066 or from 1066 to 1333 and even from 800 to 1333 doubling the CPU frequency wich is insane ! Intel was very unhappy about this mod and that’s the reason why today intel prohibite any o/c and reserve it just for it’s high end CPUs

Wow that's neat! I have a spare pc with that amazing cpu. I might give it a go!!!

Still rock my q6600 for backup pc !

I make the tape mod on my HP Compaq Pro 6000 SFF with a E7500 before upgrading to a E8400 and the performance boost was great, but I didn't have the same higher cache for multitasking, so I upgrade anyway, and yes, some processors don't take OC very well, some other people with E7500 couldn't OC with tape mod.

Very cool to see this old trick being shown in the spotlight..these younger/newer gamers don't know how good they have it! I recommend using kapton tape next time as it is not as thick so it won't stress the mobo pins as much. Cheers!

Just did this mod for an 'Ultimate XP' build I'm putting together. 3DMark 03 went from 66,700 to 88,900, which is so funny for how easy the mod is. Well, 'easy'. For me with big and shaky hands, it actually took a few tries to get the tape on right, which left me wondering if there might be some easier and more confidence-inspiring way to insulate the pad, like nail polish or similar. I never had quad core kind of money back when the Q6600 was relevant, but I do remember cranking my E2180 to ridiculous levels using motherboard FSB overclocking. Getting so much out of a $100 CPU was really satisfying. One advantage of doing it this way is that you don't have to worry about multipliers and clock dividers, which if your board and BIOS aren't great, can quickly ruin your day with things like disk corruption. However, your board obviously has to have proper 1333 MHz FSB support. For ones that top out at 1066, getting a 800 MHz FSB CPU can produce a similar effect.

Would be cool to see you make a video on this (irrespective of tape mods) but with the server CPU equivalent of the q6600 instead of the q6600. It is basically the same CPU (as you know) but you can have a server MBoard with more than one cpu, and so Vulkan is more worthwhile with some more modern GPU cards (nearly a rx570 but not quite that high a card). No other KZreadrs' videos have made videos to push the limits of that.

I love this mod so much it's hilarious but works like a charm

Reminds me of my tape mod for my Pentium II

@RetroTinkerer

3 жыл бұрын

Please share Marco, share! 😋

@MarcoGPUtuber

3 жыл бұрын

@@RetroTinkerer I have no idea where it went. I regret getting rid of it..... You can tape some pins to increase the voltage. I turned a 300 Mhz into a 450 Mhz CPU and increased the voltage to 2.2 V.

I am about to setup a q6600 retro winXP rig. thanks for sharing this the timing is perfect!

@kyles8524

3 жыл бұрын

just be aware you dont want to pair it with something like a 8000 series nvidia card or a 2000 series from ati cause(which I believe were the lowest models to support is) XP doesnt support windows 10 and the unified shader architecture or AKA CUDA cores and amd/ati's shader cores only run in dx10 which windows xp doesnt support

@ScienceAlliance

3 жыл бұрын

*sweats nervously next to my GeForce 8600GS 512mb

@ThePsychoticWombat

3 жыл бұрын

@@kyles8524 you might not get all the features, but you can go as high as the 700 series or 960 on the Nvidia side and HD 7000 and some 200 series on the AMD, speaking from experience

@kyles8524

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThePsychoticWombat not all the features? You wont even be using most of them.theres no point in using a GPU like those lol.Using something like a 7800gs is going to give you all the performance you will ever need under windows xp and directx 9.hell even an 6800gt will.Save the 960 for something usefull cause its going to be sitting at like 10% load for directx 9 games.I also know from experience cause I own like 300 different video cards

@aviationfrk

3 жыл бұрын

@@kyles8524 Thanks for the input. I just finished building a Windows 98 era PC and figured I would make a Win XP era style system. (I like to collect retro Mac and PC hardware) You seem pretty pretty well versed. Would an older 8000 series drive a 1080p monitor? Would the older games even support such a high resolution? My win98/glide PC is as follows: P3-1ghz (coppermine socket 370 w/ slot 1 adapter) Aopen Ax6bc (i could have gone intel 815 but i had this board growing up) 768mb PC133 CL2 Gainward GF4 Ti 4200 Diamond Monster 3d II 8mb (Voodoo 2) sblive! 5.1 digital (dell oem with real emu10k1 works perfect with the right drivers!) 60GB EIDE Western Digital Modern ATX style case Dungeon Keeper 2 is probably my most played game on this computer as well as warcraft 3. It runs all my DOS/Win98 games really well. I figured any software newer than that would be a good reason for a Win XP retro PC. So here I am.. LOL Phil, thanks for keeping drivers / files on your website. The links to the latest version of the drivers and apps is a huge time saver!!

I OC'd my Thunderbird 800 to over 1000 with a pencil (can't remember exactly). I tested with pencil but after using rear window defroster paint, it was a bit more stable. Electricity through metal beats graphite. I remember an Radio Shack electronics educational kit and there was one project where you colored a long strip of pencil on a piece of paper, connect wire to one end, connect to a speaker and other parts, and another wire you would slide down the graphite strip to show graphite conducts electricity but not that well. Hench why metal paint like rear window defroster paint works best.

I was hoping for this video! I agree with you: back then overclocking was way more fun. Now there isnt much you can do. Probabily the most recent thing you could do was the Z170/Z270 mod with Coffee Lake CPU's. I really wanna try it but its too expensive for me. Thanks for the video, the socket 775 brings me good memories.

@cayo2588

3 жыл бұрын

Forget about Coffe Lake Mod, cheap mutant laptop CPUs from China on modded LGA1151 is much cheaper and much more interesting.

@thecondor9744

3 жыл бұрын

@@cayo2588 That is interesting and sure CPUs are cheaper but you still need to buy one 1151 motherboard and ram. Plus you can overclock only the i9 variant and the memory speed is limited.

@cayo2588

3 жыл бұрын

@@thecondor9744 if you want to overclock on LGA1151 then just buy cheaper normal locked 10/11 gen or Ryzen, same performance but much less heat and noise and cheaper cooler. But those CPUs from china shine when used with stock clocks on cheap LGA1151 mobos, amazing value. I bought 2 used B150 mobos, one for 15€ and another for 20€ bundled with i3 6100, 8gb of ddr4 and some other random stuff.

@PhilsComputerLab Thanks for reminding me of this neat hack :) I actually have one of these lying around somewhere... I should try this .. just because :).

1980: I bet we'll have flying cars in the future! 2021:

I still rock a couple Q6600 systems so will be trying this out.

Awesome! - I never had the Q6600, but this is cool. Thanks for the video, and saving my Friday afternoon! What's that last game in the video? :)

@philscomputerlab

3 жыл бұрын

The last game shown is the latest Resident Evil demo :)

That's a sweet looking RX 470. I like the metallic tone instead of the matte or gloss red we usually see.

Heh, stumbled over this a year late. Interesting that the performance of the Q6600 running at 3GHz looks nearly identical to the performance of my Q9650 box. Despite a node shrink to 45nm, SSE 4.1 support, and 2MB of additional L2 cache per die, there’s not much of a performance delta between the two, based on my numbers (R23 numbers are only a few points higher). It be interesting to see a side by side, in like hardware, how the 9650 stacks up against the OC’d 6600 in games.

The stock Dell motherboards that support the Q6600 Core 2 Quads are made by Foxconn. With the latest BIOS onboard, they will support up to 8GB of RAM. I did this tape overclock on my Inspiron 530 with a G33 mobo & BIOS flashed to most recent version. It is "seeing" & running 8GB of RAM with no problem. CPU performance & temps are exactly what is described in this video, using the stock cooler & fan. I also run a Crucial MX500 SSD & a GT 1030 2GB video card. The machine will run PUBG at 40 to 60 FPS on low graphics settings with no hitching at all.