Question Q6600 in 2024

[GARRIGA]

Curious if there's a market for Q6600 as I have my old build lying around and retired only because I couldn't run Win 10 Pro on it.

Components
Case: Cosmos 1100 or 1000 (don't recall exact)
Board: ASUS Rampage ROG DDR3
Memory: Corsair DDR3 Dominator 16GB
CPU: Q6600

Any idea what this is worth and if there's a demand for those perhaps running old OS or Linux?

 

[punkncat]

In truth, probably not much, if any.

DDR3 is well out of the eyes of most folks looking to update. I have had DDR3 1600 up for a month at $5 a stick and no takers.

IMO, look on your local Marketplace and/or eBay to see if any are listed and selling. With eBay you can checkbox "sold" and see what they actually moved at.

Another suggestion is to gift it to one of the local rage room type spots. You could also stash it to the bottom of your parts bin/closet and hope it reaches a better value one day. (don't hold your breath) Make sure to take out the CMOS battery.

 

[Math Geek]

i have a q6600 system running win 10 with no problem. has been for years. nice older lady i know uses it as a work from home office pc. got DDR2 8 GB ram in it which is the max for the system.

about all it's good for at this point, for but she loves it

i'd look into a local charity that might be happy to have it. they can always donate it to someone in need who could use a simple machine for HW or streaming type stuff. with 16 gb ram there's no reason it can't easily handle win 10 and some basic pc usage.

 

[BFG-9000]

Curious if there's a market for Q6600 as I have my old build lying around and retired only because I couldn't run Win 10 Pro on it.

Q6600 has been able to run Windows 10 since launch in July 2015. Even if you had one of those Intel motherboards that refused to enable CMPXCHG16b or XD/NX-bit it would still run 32-bit Windows 10. You don't, so not only can that system run 64-bit Windows 10, it will also run 64-bit Windows 11 unsupported until 23H2 goes EOL on November 11, 2025, just 1 month after Windows 10 goes EOL on Oct 14, 2025.
It can't run Windows 11 24H2 as it lacks the POPCNT instruction so that's the end of the line for Windows.

As for the market value, Q6600 reached it's current sub-$10 shipped price on eBay 8 years ago and has pretty much been the same ever since.

 

[GARRIGA]

Q6600 has been able to run Windows 10 since launch in July 2015. Even if you had one of those Intel motherboards that refused to enable CMPXCHG16b or XD/NX-bit it would still run 32-bit Windows 10. You don't, so not only can that system run 64-bit Windows 10, it will also run 64-bit Windows 11 unsupported until 23H2 goes EOL on November 11, 2025, just 1 month after Windows 10 goes EOL on Oct 14, 2025.
It can't run Windows 11 24H2 as it lacks the POPCNT instruction so that's the end of the line for Windows.

As for the market value, Q6600 reached it's current sub-$10 shipped price on eBay 8 years ago and has pretty much been the same ever since.

When I was upgrading to Win 10 I wasn't aware I could run it on Q6600 plus I run all applications in 64 bit and don't hack or jail break to make components work. Stability the key as my work can take several hours to generate and sudden loss would be extremely costly along with access to trading. Plus I'm a Finance professional specializing in modeling that can build my own systems but not tech savvy enough to be messing with anything beyond mainstream. At work I'd rely on IT professionals but this is my home PC for consulting therefore I'm IT with limited skills. Yet I've built every machine I've owned since 1997 including the installation of all software which for me is good enough. In-between builds I don't keep up with the latest news or tech unless work finds me struggling with what I had built which tends to not be a concern. This is due to building on the latest tech which allows me to run my build for six years minimum and this last coming up on 10 years and other than Win 11 no reason to upgrade although without upgrading no way to know anything lacking. Cost of not having access to the frequent latest and greatest. Funniest part being that I build at home often more capable then that provided at work.