2013 and i just got myself the Q6600, paired with a micro ATX ASRock G41 mobo. gotta say its a sweet little combo. for the people complaining about the price... its worth it. i paid 90 plus shipping for a used one, don't pay more then 140 for one new OR used. unless your still with the 775 socket. mind you even though its an older outdated socket type/CPU it kicks A$$! upgraded my Pentium dual core E2160 running at 2.8Ghz with a windows rating of 6.2 and took it to a 7.1! at the stock clock 2.4Ghz, i currently run it at 2.8Ghz "1333 FSB limits anything higher on MY mobo"
CPU mark score of 3255.
only cons i can think of offhand is lack of L3 cache. but the 8MB makes up for what it lacks. 105 watts is pretty high but with all the cores loaded, after using Antec diamond formula 7 thermal paste it stays nice n warm around 120-130F with a stock,not so good condition HSF. for the price id say if you don't want to go with the intel i series, i3 etc, stick with this CPU. its on par with my old AMD quad core which was a Athlon II 640 stock at 3Ghz. which got a CPU mark of 3500. with a good board and water cooling, a 3.4Ghz clock on this bad boy will surely crunch out some impressive scores in many aspects!
| Processor | 2.4 GHz core_2_quad |
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