core 2 quad in 2016

[HexGaming5]

Hey
Right now as we all know the core 2 quad well it's getting on a bit in age and they aren't gonna max out fallout 4 or anything like that but my question is:
Do you believe a Q6600 will still be able to hold it's ground for a little longer. now before you all say "ermahgawd save for a new system blah blah" i really really can't afford it right now i have no money (school student) and money is really only trickling in to me so no an i3 gtx 960 machine for me so my idea was to buy the parts i found cheap on gumtree that are:
a Q6600 + 2gb of ram for $30 (aud)
a gtx 260 for $20
an Antex 620w high current gamer psu for $50 or the other option of one for $40 that comes in a Thermaltake Commander MS-II so i imagine its a coolermaster psu of some sort for $40
all to go into my main pc which currently has a e7400, gt 220, msi 7519, 4gb 2x2 ram.
the parts that come out of my machine (except for the cpu) will be going into my project junkbot, a machine i built from parts from the junkyard i got for free but because of mobo reasons can only go up to a pentium 4 630 so this machine is for old games like hl, doom and such but i am rambling so the point is do you believe the core 2 quad can still hold its self up just a little longer.
Cheers guys and apologies for the massive amount of text

 

[keeper999p]

HI

I'm running the same cpu ( q6600 ) with a gigabyte 960 oc 4 gb ram getting between 45 and 50 frames in games like doom , fallout 4, rise of the tombraider.

Game settings on medium.

 

[guanyu210379]

Assuming you have strong enough GPU, Q6600 has already problems running Witcher 3, Shadow of Mordor, etc. and already at limit for Bioshock Infinite.
I ditched my old Q6600 in October 2014 and went for my new rig (hover your mouse over my avatar).
My Q6600 rig main specs were Q6600 @3.3GHz+HD6850+6GB DDR2 1000 RAM.

Q6600 is a good upgrade for E7400 but ....
I know you are short of money but my comments will still hurt you.
No! Q6600 is no longer powerful enough to run newer AAA games on medium-high settings, some even on all low settings. However yes, If you are going to stick with older games (older than 2012-2013) or are satisfied with low-medium settings on newer games, Q6600 is fully ok.

GT260 from GT220? Now, this is something I will say, never! Get newer ones starting from HD6xxx generation. If possible anything above HD7770.... something like GTX750Ti or higher would be perfect.
Higher than GTX960? I would not recommend, since your Q6600 will be the bottleneck. Even GTX960 is bottlenecked by Q6600 on some games.

 

[Hlsgsz]

Hey
Right now as we all know the core 2 quad well it's getting on a bit in age and they aren't gonna max out fallout 4 or anything like that but my question is:
Do you believe a Q6600 will still be able to hold it's ground for a little longer. now before you all say "ermahgawd save for a new system blah blah" i really really can't afford it right now i have no money (school student) and money is really only trickling in to me so no an i3 gtx 960 machine for me so my idea was to buy the parts i found cheap on gumtree that are:
a Q6600 + 2gb of ram for $30 (aud)
a gtx 260 for $20
an Antex 620w high current gamer psu for $50 or the other option of one for $40 that comes in a Thermaltake Commander MS-II so i imagine its a coolermaster psu of some sort for $40
all to go into my main pc which currently has a e7400, gt 220, msi 7519, 4gb 2x2 ram.
the parts that come out of my machine (except for the cpu) will be going into my project junkbot, a machine i built from parts from the junkyard i got for free but because of mobo reasons can only go up to a pentium 4 630 so this machine is for old games like hl, doom and such but i am rambling so the point is do you believe the core 2 quad can still hold its self up just a little longer.
Cheers guys and apologies for the massive amount of text

The q6600 is dead as far as gaming goes, and your only chance of achgieving anything remotely playable is to overclock it to 3.2ghz

 

[HexGaming5]

Assuming you have strong enough GPU, Q6600 has already problems running Witcher 3, Shadow of Mordor, etc. and already at limit for Bioshock Infinite.
I ditched my old Q6600 in October 2014 and went for my new rig (hover your mouse over my avatar).
My Q6600 rig main specs were Q6600 @3.3GHz+HD6850+6GB DDR2 1000 RAM.

Q6600 is a good upgrade for E7400 but ....
I know you are short of money but my comments will still hurt you.
No! Q6600 is no longer powerful enough to run newer AAA games on medium-high settings, some even on all low settings. However yes, If you are going to stick with older games (older than 2012-2013) or are satisfied with low-medium settings on newer games, Q6600 is fully ok.

GT260 from GT220? Now, this is something I will say, never! Get newer ones starting from HD6xxx generation. If possible anything above HD7770.... something like GTX750Ti or higher would be perfect.
Higher than GTX960? I would not recommend, since your Q6600 will be the bottleneck. Even GTX960 is bottlenecked by Q6600 on some games.

thanks for your answer and yeah older games and usually smaller lesser requiring games like the forest i play a lot with my friends so yep. also i said GTX 260 not GT 260 i would never go to another gt card their a pos