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

[Tonepoet]

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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.

I think core 2 duo represented some of the earlier intel Macintoshes. Depending on how far back you go, Apple was either using Power P.C. or Motorola 68000 chips before that. Exactly what that means for what kind of vintage Mac O.S. software you can run, I do not know though.

[Alienware Gamer ALX]

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Początkowo opublikowane przez 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.

I think core 2 duo represented some of the earlier intel Macintoshes. Depending on how far back you go, Apple was either using Power P.C. or Motorola 68000 chips before that.

right :)

P7550 is a mobile processor used in imac from 2008.
i m using it rn

[lsdninja]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Tonepoet:

I think core 2 duo represented some of the earlier intel Macintoshes. Depending on how far back you go, Apple was either using Power P.C. or Motorola 68000 chips before that. Exactly what that means for what kind of vintage Mac O.S. software you can run, I do not know though.

Intel Macs launched with Core Duo (no 2) processors and Apple even launched a Mac Mini with a Core Solo in it. They were quickly upgraded though, likely due to the fact that Core 2 processors just dropped in to existing designs.

[Talby]

E4300 @ 3ghz on a GA-P35-DS3L
2x1Gb Gskill ddr2-1066
HD 4670 1gb
SP A55 128gb sata ssd + 1tb old hdd
Xubuntu 20.04

Good times! It's at my parent's place I do fire it up for some old school source engine nostalgia...

[De Hollandse Ezel]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Vox:

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

I used to own some of those back in thr days.. they were not faster but were a nice gimmick.

when amd & intel alongside the others still used the same sockets;)

but like you I have tossed soo many 486d and early p1 p2xand p3 in the trash alongsude many crt that now woulf be worth a fortune..

[MonkehMaster]

not to long ago, i cleaned up and installed win 11 on these 2 laptops.

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/882959061531393301/?ctp=159#c5330625727571796289

i have a few other laptops and desktop laying around (think i mention a 1 or might have mentioned 1 or more in that link), just havent dug through the rest, not sure i have anything much older than those, most of that may have been lost in moves, sold, or given away.

but them things are "fast" for what they are, but for sure slow compared to what we have currently.

[sinattractive]

Here is my current gaming/everyday rig:

Xeon X5460 4.1 GHz/1728 MHz FSB(771 version of Q9650)

P5Q Motherboard(I used socket 771 to 775 mod to install Xeon cpu)

4x2 Gb DDR 2 864 MHz

Power Color RX 580 8 Gb(no oc)

Dedicated SSDs for os,games and page file

Heavily modified windows 10 21H2 LTSC IOT


And hey while its old,it isnt bad at all!Curently im playing vampyre on it at 1080p everything on max FPS locked on 30. And yeah i believe 30 is just fine cause it feels more cinematic and realistic.Only fighting or some hack and slash games need to run at 60 or higher fps on my opinion.Last but not least my problem is lack of newer instruction sets like avx and avx 2 which is required by newer games.

[Ralf]

E5200 + Arctic Freezer 7 Pro
ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2 R2.0
Kingston 2x1GB DDR2 667Mhz with Arctic RC
Crucial MX500 250GB
Asus AH3650 Silent 512MB AGP

[pasa]

Some people do for sure. Last Visual studio patch was hotfixing crash from incorrect codegen to old CPUs making the IDE uusable.

[Viking2121]

Old core 2 quad q6600 I use it my garage with a gt315 I pulled out of a hp, all it does is YouTube, play my media from jellyfin or looking up and buying car or lawn mower parts.

[Bing Chilling]

i don't still use it but i have a core two quad and a phenom ii x6 1055t
in my old tech box. actually have alot of older cpu's i've just taken out of PC's when people gave me their old computers to ether work on or sell.

[DonMcK]

Just rebuilt / upgraded an old Toshiba laptop, now has a C2D T7700, 4GByte Ram and a 480GByte SSD. Perfectly fine for browsing, home office work and watching movies.

Also still have a Q9650 sitting in a Z68 motherboard somewhere.

[Mr White]

I had the E7300 Core 2 Duo but not anymore.

[Alienware Gamer ALX]

Początkowo opublikowane przez DonMcK:

Just rebuilt / upgraded an old Toshiba laptop, now has a C2D T7700, 4GByte Ram and a 480GByte SSD. Perfectly fine for browsing, home office work and watching movies.

Also still have a Q9650 sitting in a Z68 motherboard somewhere.

socket 775 cpu in a socket 1155 mb? why

[DonMcK]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Alienware Gamer ALX:

Początkowo opublikowane przez DonMcK:

Just rebuilt / upgraded an old Toshiba laptop, now has a C2D T7700, 4GByte Ram and a 480GByte SSD. Perfectly fine for browsing, home office work and watching movies.

Also still have a Q9650 sitting in a Z68 motherboard somewhere.

socket 775 cpu in a socket 1155 mb? why

That set me thinking.

Just dug it out and it's actually sitting in a Gigabyte EP45 board. The Z68 had my current CPU, i7-3770K before it moved to Z77. Sorry for the confusion.

Also, just add that while looking for the motherboard I found 3 GPU's that have been in the same draw for years - Asus HD4870; eVGA GTX480 and eVGA GTX670. (Think it's about time to have a clear out.)