Anybody still use Core 2's?

[ravenjedmanicdao]

Am I like the only person in this planet still using Core 2's? kinda makes me feel lonely.

 

[blazorthon]

Not even close, though it's not like the number of Core 2 users is rising these days. Core 2 is about ten years old now.

 

[CountMike]

Core2Quads are still respectable processors. In some cases they could be replaced with modified Xeons of that vintage, Socket 771 Xeons on 775 MBs.

 

[ravenjedmanicdao]

Core2Quads are still respectable processors. In some cases they could be replaced with modified Xeons of that vintage, Socket 771 Xeons on 775 MBs.

My HP OEM motherboard broken down, which was combined with a i5 4440, now ever since, I got pushed back to the socket 775. Should I save for the same OEM motherboard for $200 or get the ASRock H81M DGS for $79 AUD? (Which I am planning to get). I kept the i5 in hopes of one day that I will get the motherboard for it.

 

[RCFProd]

Get the Asrock H81M Board for the i5-4440 CPU.

 

[CountMike]

That's a recent processor, I thought you had Core2 with 775 socket.

 

[RCFProd]

That's a recent processor, I thought you had Core2 with 775 socket.

You read his post, the one above mine?

''My HP OEM motherboard broken down, which was combined with a i5 4440, now ever since, I got pushed back to the socket 775.''

 

[CountMike]

Yeah I read it but didn't make sense for somebody to push him to older socket.

 

[RCFProd]

Yeah I read it but didn't make sense for somebody to push him to older socket.

He probably owned a Core 2 with 775 socket and had to use that again when his primary system with 1150 socket broke down. You can't use the i5-4440 anymore after your 1150 socket breaks down, as It's not 775 socket compatible. So he uses his Core 2 CPU with the LGA 775 socket he had laying around.

Not sure where this thread is going though.

 

[POPCORNS 1068]

My friend's Core 2 Q8200 is still running strong.

 

[CompuTronix]

My Nephew is running a Q9650 overclocked to 4.2 GHz, an Asus X48 motherboard, 8 GB DDR3 1600, two SSD's in RAID0, and an overclocked GTX 1060 6GB. He says it's still a competitive gaming rig.

Here's his O/C'd PassMark CPU score compared to newer processors with similar scores:

i5 6400 - 6,550
i5 3450 - 6,448
i5 2500K - 6,438
i5 4440 - 6,404
Q9650 @ 4.2 - 6,342
FX6300 - 6,330
i5 2500 - 6,232
i7 975 - 6,214
i5 3340 - 5,998

3DMark Time Spy - 3,929
3DMark Fire Strike - 10,321

CT

 

[ravenjedmanicdao]

Yeah I read it but didn't make sense for somebody to push him to older socket.

What I meant was that I was forced to use the socket 775 after the other motherboard broken down, so now my main system is a C2D E8400 paired with GT 730. Still works fine after all those years!

 

[ravenjedmanicdao]

My Nephew is running a Q9650 overclocked to 4.2 GHz, an Asus X48 motherboard, 8 GB DDR3 1600, two SSD's in RAID0, and an overclocked GTX 1060 6GB. He says it's still a competitive gaming rig.

Here's his O/C'd PassMark CPU score compared to newer processors with similar scores:

i5 6400 - 6,550
i5 3450 - 6,448
i5 2500K - 6,438
i5 4440 - 6,404
Q9650 @ 4.2 - 6,342
FX6300 - 6,330
i5 2500 - 6,232
i7 975 - 6,214
i5 3340 - 5,998

3DMark Time Spy - 3,929
3DMark Fire Strike - 10,321

CT

That's a really good benchmark, especially for a LGA 775 CPU.

 

[jaguarskx]

I got a Core 2 Dual E6600 in my old HTPC. I've been meaning to replace it with my C2Q Q9450 that is just sitting on the sideline, but I never got around to it.

 

[ravenjedmanicdao]

I got a Core 2 Dual E6600 in my old HTPC. I've been meaning to replace it with my C2Q Q9450 that is just sitting on the sideline, but I never got around to it.

Nice! do you still use it?

 

[jaguarskx]

Yep. Still in use.

 

[ravenjedmanicdao]

Yep. Still in use.

As your main system?

 

[jaguarskx]

I have an i5-4670k in my main system.

I'll upgrade that when Intel releases the 9th or 10th generation Core i5 (or it's equivalent if Intel moves on to using a different naming scheme). At that point the i5-4670k will go into my HTPC so that I can watch videos. I'll toss in my GTX 960 just in case the requirements to watch videos from streaming services somehow becomes ridiculously high.