Who is using a Core 2 Duo in 2024 ?

[Alienware Gamer ALX]

write your cpu if you know it .
i m using a P7550 2.2

[A&A]

I still keep my PC with Pentium E2200, but I am not using it.

[De Hollandse Ezel]

useless..

for retro XP builds you prefer one of the 3.2ghz pentium 4 chips.. as not all win xp games work with dual core cpu's.

for retro win 7 builds you want something much newwer

and for retro win 98 or 95 builds somthing much older..

but if you cannot find those parts.. a core 2 system can do as a temperal retro xp game.. it might not run all your old cdrom games.. but at least some of them.. I suppose you paird it with an GTX 580 gpu? or do you have a titan black?

[nullable]

Ursprungligen skrivet av De Hollandse Ezel:

useless..

for retro XP builds you prefer one of the 3.2ghz pentium 4 chips.. as not all win xp games work with dual core cpu's.

Well some edge case exceptions hardly makes it useless. Also in most cases single threaded games will ignore the additional threads available in multiple cores. And games that are multi-threaded but are fickle (Fallout 3 rings a bell) it's still manageable.

Multi-core CPU's were available for years before Windows 7 came out, running multi-core systems on XP has plenty of vetting which further undermines your argument.

[Alienware Gamer ALX]

Ursprungligen skrivet av De Hollandse Ezel:

useless..

for retro XP builds you prefer one of the 3.2ghz pentium 4 chips.. as not all win xp games work with dual core cpu's.

for retro win 7 builds you want something much newwer

and for retro win 98 or 95 builds somthing much older..

but if you cannot find those parts.. a core 2 system can do as a temperal retro xp game.. it might not run all your old cdrom games.. but at least some of them.. I suppose you paird it with an GTX 580 gpu? or do you have a titan black?

you almost guessed my 2008 build:
QX9770@4.4 gtx 280
but it s a core 2 quad

my retrobuilds list : (which I am currently using)


PC 2003 : Pentium 4 EE 3.2 (1 Core 2 Threads) - 5950 Ultra (@530 MHz) -
PC 2004 : Pentium 4 EE 3.46 (1 Core 2 Threads) - X800 XT Platinum Edition (@570 MHz) -
PC 2005 : Pentium Extreme Edition 840 (2 core 4 Threads) - 7800 GTX
PC Early 2006 : Pentium Extreme Edition 965 (2 core 4 Threads) - 7900 GTX
PC Mid 2006 : X6800 (Dual Core) - 7900 GTX
PC Late 2006 : QX6700 (Quad Core)- 8800 GTX
PC 2008 : QX9770 Extreme Edition - GTX 280 (700 core - 1350 mem) - HYTE Y60 - HX1500i

[De Hollandse Ezel]

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Ursprungligen skrivet av De Hollandse Ezel:

useless..

for retro XP builds you prefer one of the 3.2ghz pentium 4 chips.. as not all win xp games work with dual core cpu's.

for retro win 7 builds you want something much newwer

and for retro win 98 or 95 builds somthing much older..

but if you cannot find those parts.. a core 2 system can do as a temperal retro xp game.. it might not run all your old cdrom games.. but at least some of them.. I suppose you paird it with an GTX 580 gpu? or do you have a titan black?

you almost guessed my 2008 build:
QX9770@4.4 gtx 280
but it s a core 2 quad

my retrobuilds list : (which I am currently using)


PC 2003 : Pentium 4 EE 3.2 (1 Core 2 Threads) - 5950 Ultra (@530 MHz) -
PC 2004 : Pentium 4 EE 3.46 (1 Core 2 Threads) - X800 XT Platinum Edition (@570 MHz) -
PC 2005 : Pentium Extreme Edition 840 (2 core 4 Threads) - 7800 GTX
PC Early 2006 : Pentium Extreme Edition 965 (2 core 4 Threads) - 7900 GTX
PC Mid 2006 : X6800 (Dual Core) - 7900 GTX
PC Late 2006 : QX6700 (Quad Core)- 8800 GTX
PC 2008 : QX9770 Extreme Edition - GTX 280 (700 core - 1350 mem) - HYTE Y60 - HX1500i

nice collection though all a bit new.. got no 90s hardware? and is it all former pc of you or purchased later?

[Alienware Gamer ALX]

Ursprungligen skrivet av De Hollandse Ezel:

Ursprungligen skrivet av Alienware Gamer ALX:

you almost guessed my 2008 build:
QX9770@4.4 gtx 280
but it s a core 2 quad

my retrobuilds list : (which I am currently using)


PC 2003 : Pentium 4 EE 3.2 (1 Core 2 Threads) - 5950 Ultra (@530 MHz) -
PC 2004 : Pentium 4 EE 3.46 (1 Core 2 Threads) - X800 XT Platinum Edition (@570 MHz) -
PC 2005 : Pentium Extreme Edition 840 (2 core 4 Threads) - 7800 GTX
PC Early 2006 : Pentium Extreme Edition 965 (2 core 4 Threads) - 7900 GTX
PC Mid 2006 : X6800 (Dual Core) - 7900 GTX
PC Late 2006 : QX6700 (Quad Core)- 8800 GTX
PC 2008 : QX9770 Extreme Edition - GTX 280 (700 core - 1350 mem) - HYTE Y60 - HX1500i

nice collection though all a bit new.. got no 90s hardware? and is it all former pc of you or purchased later?

Unfortunately I don't have any PC older than 2003 :(
(in the 80s I used Amiga and in the 90s 486dx2 66) but I gave everything away many years ago.

I got all the retro-PCs in 2020, they are the configurations I would have liked to test in the past :)

seeing the performance with many benches and comparing them was very very fun :)

[Andrius227]

I'm not using it now, but i still have my old core 2 extreme x6800. A few years ago i installed windows 10 and played fallout 4 on it for a bit. It ran ok but was bottlenecked by my gt610.

The crazy thing is that it booted much faster than my current, high end gaming pc.

[Vox]

I've got a Core2Quad Q9450 with 8GB DDR2 stored. Wouldn't mind getting my hands of a Cyrix CPU.

[De Hollandse Ezel]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Andrius227:

I'm not using it now, but i still have my old core 2 extreme x6800. A few years ago i installed windows 10 and played fallout 4 on it for a bit. It ran ok but was bottlenecked by my gt610.

The crazy thing is that it booted much faster than my current, high end gaming pc.

a lot of the slower boot speeds is due todays motherboars.

therrs 2 timings
1 is post-timing basicly from turning pc on your biod booting.

in the latest 7xxx amf platform that boot time is like 30 seconds on very old pcs that wsd less than 1.

next the loading of the os is dependant on the harddrive it is on..
even if thats an old IDE device of 133MB/S vs the latest 15000MB/s m.2

that actually not adds as much as the boot matters..

so ineffficiebyy in todayd cpu+mobo is why

[AbedsBrother]

Had a Core2Duo many years ago, got rid of it ~10 years ago. Was too slow compared to Haswell.

[Set-115689]

Still have one in a work pc. Works fine but it is showing it's age when cpu hits ~100% usage. E8500 core 2 duo.

Also have an amd one in a laptop that was given to me for free but due to it's low 1 ghz max clock speed and no video card it really sucks at every thing even with 8gb of ram. Even adding an sdd made no difference.

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

I've got a Core 2 Quad hooked up to my bedroom TV. I use it for discs and games that I feel like lounging with Xbox controller.

It has windows 11 pro:

https://valid.x86.fr/jcizqd

[Mr White]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Andrius227:

I'm not using it now, but i still have my old core 2 extreme x6800. A few years ago i installed windows 10 and played fallout 4 on it for a bit. It ran ok but was bottlenecked by my gt610.

The crazy thing is that it booted much faster than my current, high end gaming pc.

Windows 10 and 11 seem slower i bet because of all the apps on them.

[Alienware Gamer ALX]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Andrius227:

I'm not using it now, but i still have my old core 2 extreme x6800. A few years ago i installed windows 10 and played fallout 4 on it for a bit. It ran ok but was bottlenecked by my gt610.

The crazy thing is that it booted much faster than my current, high end gaming pc.

How far did you manage to get this processor with the multiplier unlocked?

[Lixire]

I do have an older PC running E8400 that I use for old games or just want to experience XP again once more.

Core 2 Duo E8400
GTX 260 216SP
4GB DDR2