A Core 2 Duo still works great even in 2018. CPUs haven't gotten much better over the years lol

is this a new way to damage controll by inlel shills ?

Probably not as much so if you use software that was released around the time of the Core2. One of the fundamental tenets of computing is that for every 100% gain in hardware performance there is a 50% reduction in software performance.

Is there a way to shut AMDrones up who think this hasn't been said every single year?
>You don't need a C2Q. C2D is good enough.
>You don't need a Nehalem. C2D is good enough.
>You don't need a Lynnfiled. C2D is good enough.
>You don't need Sandy. C2D is good enough.
>You don't need Ivy. C2D is good enough.
>You don't need Haswell. C2D is good enough.
>You don't need Skylake. C2D is good enough.
>You don't need Coffee Lake. C2D is good enough.

I'm pretty sure you can't put a xeon on a memepad.

Pic related, my Core2 procs. On the left is a C2D E4600 that was supposed to replace my old Pentium D but the board it was in didn't support it and on the right is my Xeon X3220, which will be receiving it's motherboard along with 8GB of RAM by the end of the week. I'm getting another board for the E4600 next week.

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Core 2 is still a fucking beast, I sold my Optiplex with a Q6600 and 8 gigs for fast money but I really regret it, I have a nother optiplex stock so I'll have to get another Q6600 and 8 gigs of DDR2.

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>IE
>Chrome
>Opera
>Firefox
JUST FUCKING PICK ONE

>Core 2 Duo still works great even in 2018
>CPUs haven't gotten much better over the years lol.

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I make music with mine. My recording rig was based around a Pentium D 950 until I fucked up the pins in the socket swapping it out for an E4600 (). Some thermal paste got on the pins, I tried to clean it up and bent the fuck outta some of the pins.

anywho...

It's entirely possible to record with a P3, but you have to change your approach. The Xeon/C2Q I have waiting on a board will be my replacement DAW machine and the E4600 will serve Linux duty.

IE isn't running, it's pinned on the taskbar.

Chrome has all of my business shit in it.
I use Opera's VPN for certain sites
Firefox has Noscript running, I use it for damned near everything else.

I'm thinking about upgrading to a core 2 duo but this pentium 4 still serves me well.

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I'm thinking about upgrading to a pentium 4 but my 80386 works fine.

The pentium 4 is nice to heat up your room in the winter.

>Not having 8 hot ass CPUs in your CPU

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Edgy

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the motherboard integrated graphics that came with those was complete shit

Fuck theres people still using G4 and G5 PowerMacs for music recording/editing/etc

Yeah. Sometimes you get really used to working a certain way and those old machines cover those bases. If I hadn't started relying on VSTi's so much I'd probaly still be doing everything with the P3-933 sitting next to me.

Still running my C2Q Q9550. I'm in the #waitforzen2 boat, though.

Oh you can do most of that, it's just very very slow.

People back in those days used C2Ds and C2Qs to do most of what you've mentioned when they were top of the line. They just had a lot of patience.

Power efficiency got 10x better.

The cpu is okay but I'm happy to be done with IDE drives

He said people, not children.

/v/ will debate this

maybe stop jewing people and we consider it :^)
i have became amd shill because of inlel's practices
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well, not really. 4k videos and system cameras with 40-50 megapixel files didn't really exist when core2duos were the shit. a single minute of time lapse from 36 megapixel images would render for a week in c2d, whereas ryzen crunches thru the images in mere hours.

besides, modern software usually gets faster, not slower. it's just that increased cpu power can be used for new things that weren't feasible or even exist back in the day. image processing is starting to use machine learning, which was unheard of in the early 2000s.

They have. Nowadays a smartphone performs the same at 2 % of the power draw. Thats what has gotten better. C2D was a full sized desktop processor, I guess a current CPU with the same TDP is 10 times faster.

$5 on aliexpress for the G530.

But tell me honestly why you would want an outdated CPU. I mean, my shitty 2016 athlon x4 wipes the floor with all core2's, OC'd extremes included.

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>a 1997 cpu is sufficient for word processing
Have you run recent versions of Office?

why does no one ever talk about the quads?

>TFW I bought a G530 w/ mainboard last year
>It outperformed my Phenom II 940 on two cores and a quarter of the power draw

Reddit
Spacing.

It's just 2 core 2 duos glued together.

I'm waiting for something to die before I replace it, which seems like that time will never come.

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no fun when every time you play youtube videos the laptop fan on top speed

I just a few weeks ago upgraded from Phenom II 4x 965 BE

VR is a fun meme

A pair of UltraSPARC IIs still works great even in 2018. CPUs haven't gotten much better over the years lol.

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Not an argument.

If you're looking for an argument you are in the wrong place.

I don't see a single IDE cable or drive there.

OP speaks the truth.

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this nigga hereeee , what is this 2002?

My 2007 Phenom still works
It refuses to die
Cleaned the board, a shitty OEM but actually ASUS parts (Pegatron), the capacitors look like theyre new.

What do you do with that computer?

My C2Q still runs like a champ. Well, with an SSD it does. Most people these days seriously overestimate the need for more powerful computers. 99.9% of the population don't need a new i9-7839+2 running @7.3GHz.

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>t.deluded x200 user

I have a q8300 and a gt220, youre lying nigger
Even browsing is a slow pain

I recently started using a Thinkpad X200s at work instead of my X1 Yoga because Core 2 Duo SL9400 is still more than enough for ssh and remote server management. Made my secretary order a new battery and it can go up to 7 hours of actual work. Screen is shit but who cares.

Core2 Duo has trouble playing hi10 encodes.

For basic shit, sure. Have fun transcoding video

For browsing yes. But you can't do anything else on these anymore. Also they consume a lot of power.

I always tell people if they HAVE old hardware and are happy with it keep it, but never upgrade that shit.
I wonder how. Windows 10? Try 8.1. I installed 10 on my Phenom 9600 rig once, it was a pain, 8.1 ran absolutely smooth. I thought the PC was broken. 9600 is exactly the performance level of a Q6600.
Even a modern Core i5 can't decode HEVC. But you should get a GPU for it anyway.
This. Its OK for browsing, maybe as a backup machine, but I wouldn't do anything else on it. I once had a T8100 notebook, I converted a Bluray movie, took 12h and the thing was incredibly sluggish while doing so.

>8700k

ironically OPs 10 year old e8500 stands a good chance of still keepin' truckin' loooong after your spankin new 14nm process chip has been turned into a fucked-apart dead thing by electromigration (although i guess his mobo's caps have to give out eventually).

Yes, it will. I did the opposite (put an Athlon 64 X2 sticker on a Prescott P4), and it immediately exploded, destroying my house, wife, kids, BMW, and proceeded to burn down most of my suburb. I've been in hiding ever since, downing anti-depressants like tic-tacs and looking over my shoulder every time I leave the house.

In other words, I'm pretty much just your average Jow Forums poster (except the Anux bullshit).

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Yes. It logically follows. Until you learn logic, I recommend shutting your noise generator.

I used a core2duo overclocked to 4.5ghz from 2008-2017 played every thing well beside dayz and I played Warz instead at 60fps played bf4 at 45+fps and csgo at 60+fps only game that made me upgrade was pubg but looking back on it if I had waited for it to get optimized I could have stayed on the core2 longer.

>A Core 2 Duo still works great even in 2018
A Pentium 4 still works great even in 2018 xDDDD

The i5-6200u in my laptop can decode 1080p 10bit H.265 at about 10-12% CPU utilisation. It really isn't an issue even for low-end CPUs. Apparently it can even be done on a P4 with some help from the GPU.

It's the choice of player which matters. VLC isn't very CPU efficient when decoding HEVC. MPC-HC is about twice as efficient as VLC and is what I use as a result.

impressive autism, i used my e6750 from 2007 to 2015, path of exile ran like butthole on it though so i upgraded to a Phenom II x4 965 which turned out to not be only a modest increase in single core perf despite ocing it to 3.7ghz.

>destroying my house

>every time I leave the house

I browse Jow Forums in a dual core with 4gb ram linux VM.

for you

>A Core 2 Duo still works great even in 2018.
Only if you bought intel

It does, Mr Robot owns a dell optiplex with a pentium 4.

Had win 7 before 10
Also upraded to 850evo, boot times of os are better but thats about it, sata 2 bottlenecks really hard
No lvl3 cache browser is fucking slow asfuck

>talking any nonsense to try to look smart

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tfw downgraded to a10-7850k from c2d e6750

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???

>comparing p4 to a c2d

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i didn't feel much of a difference at all

then obviously the cpu wasn't the bottleneck in whatever you were using it for because it is a much better cpu

suck my cock amdrone

watch ascii porn

an i486 should suffice for any normal pc use

Yes, because your CPU has GPU hardware acceleration you dumbass. I had the i5-3550 and a GT 530, it shuttered heavily when I tried to run 4K HEVC movies.

Yes, VLC is shit, I use MPC as my default player. It will still use the CPU if you don't have a modern GPU with HEVC decode.

I upgraded the CPU in my 2008 Dell Inspiron laptop for a Core 2 Duo at 2.93GHz with 6MB of L2 cache, and it is F.A.S.T.
The only disadvantage is this:
I have it capped at 80% capacity when running on battery... (pic related)

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lul

Stock or overclocked?

Can't even imagine what I'd do with a q9650. Still pushin an e6600 here.

Could you elaborate cause it seems like it's about the same power-wise? Obviously way less performance but your power bill shouldn't be way more....
e6600 TDP: 65w
2400g TDP: 65w
And does the power savings even make sense if you're spending $250-300 on a new machine?

What's your MPC-HC set up? madVR, etc.?

What did you have before?

I have a T7500 in an Inspiron and have been considering upgrading it but feel like the marginal performance gain for the work/risk may not be worth it.

Also where the fuck do you get your batteries? It seems like replacement batteries are either $200 genuine or $30 chink exploding shit.

I was using a E8400 until 2015, only upgraded to something newer because the mainboard could not handle anything above 16GB and yeah, USB 2.0 was kinda slow.

Why do you need more than 16GB and why not buy a $30 USB3 card?