Soc 775

[Lone Wolf]

Any one still using a Soc 775 mobo for gaming in there rigs ?

[MoonC A T]

Socket T? No. Never.

[_I_]

they were good 15 years ago
now pretty much anything is better, more cores/threads and much much faster

[MoonC A T]

What O/S are you running?

[Crashed]

I got rid of my 775 a decade ago.

[Vox]

Still got a 775 system but it's stored away.

[Lone Wolf]

Escrito originalmente por MoonC A T:

What O/S are you running?

windows 10 i had a 775 Q-6600 run ok but slow

[MoonC A T]

Are you planning on upgrading soon or no?

[PopinFRESH]

Escrito originalmente por GUNSMOKE999:

Escrito originalmente por MoonC A T:

What O/S are you running?

windows 10 i had a 775 Q-6600 run ok but slow

Great CPU for the time. I had mine until I got a Core i7 4770k for free through an Intel rewards program. I'd say it's well past its time now though.

[Illusion of Progress]

Used primarily, or for "gaming"? No. But I still have one as an HTPC.

Dell OptiPlex 380
Core 2 Quad Q9550 (also have an E8600 I can swap in or out)
8 GB DDR3 1333 MHz (running at 1066 MHz due to the chipset limitations)
GeForce GT 1030 2 GB

My first custom PC after years and years of upgrading OEMs was a Core 2 Duo E8400-based PC on the day the CPU launched, and it was when Intel left the awful Pentium 4 behind and overtook AMD. I had it with a Maximus Formula and a GeForce 8800 GT (eventually).

I used that until I won a 2500K on overclock.net on some contest, and then sold the old CPU, cooling, motherboard, and RAM for a new motherboard, RAM, and cooling.

I then used that until 2020.

I couldn't tell you when the Core 2 "stopped being relevant" because it still felt very relevant to me when I changed to the 2500K. For the longest time, I felt like the Core 2s (with enough RAM and an SSD) were the perfect baseline CPU that were good enough for most non-heavy stuff. I think that has changed/is changing, though. Even three years ago in older, lighter versions, Minecraft was proving too much for it, and Windows 11 pushing up requirements is going to help accelerate pushing a lot of that ancient stuff out I think.

[A&A]

I still have one with a Pentium E2200, RAM 4GB 800MHz and GT240, but it doesn't have secure boot, which makes it compatible up to Windows 7. The processor itself was good, but by modern standards it is several thousand kilometers away.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Escrito originalmente por A&A ✠:

I still have one with a Pentium E2200, RAM 4GB 800MHz and GT240, but it doesn't have secure boot, which makes it compatible up to Windows 7. The processor itself was good, but by modern standards it is several thousand kilometers away.

You don't need Secure Boot or UEFI for Win10 to work fine on it. However 4GB of RAM is quite limiting and you'd need at least a GTX 750 to have any proper driver support under Win10 or 11

[Illusion of Progress]

Might be best to clarify it's Maxwell or above, meaning the GeForce 900 series, but the GTX 750/Ti specifically is included (but not the rest of the GeForce 700 series) due to it being the same Maxwell architecture as the GeForce 900 series.

(You probably know this, but I'm clarifying it because "at least GTX 750" might sound to a passerby as a GTX 760, 770, 780, etc. are included when they're not).

Also, older nVidia GPUs will also work, but not with the latest nVidia drivers as current drivers dropped support for anything pre-Maxwell.

[r.linder]

Socket 775 is so old at this point that it's effectively e-waste, nobody is unironically using that for gaming still, because there's no valid reason to. There's newer and better hardware that still supports games of the time, the few people who still have LGA775 are nerds, geeks, collectors, hoarders.

[Lord Flashheart]

I have an old machine, with 4GB memory & a q9550 (socket 775) cpu.
It is a backup router, using opnsense software. Typically it is not used.

The actual router is an M92p tiny.
If/when the m92p fails, will use the socket 775 machine as a router in the meantime until I I get a replacement.

The socket 775 machine is not very power efficient, but still has some use.

It is difficult to see how to use it could be for gaming, unless playing 15 year old games.

[Set-115689]

Still use one as a win 10 office pc. E8500 core 2 duo + 760 gtx sc video card. Wouldn't use it for gaming these days.