I bought a $6 Novatech GAMING PC…

Would people like me to keep doing polls on the specs of the PCs when we get them on the channel? I found it fun to see what the guesses were

Totally did not think of anything illegal when i saw the thumbnail

The Q6600 is what, 17 years old? Imagine being able to run Windows 2000 on a CPU from 1983!! Shows how far we've come in terms of continuity of support, backwards compatibility, instruction set etc (or how little we've progressed, depending on how you look at it). I kept an overclocked Q6600 machine as my main rig until 2018. It still works. Nice to know it could be pressed into service again in an emergency.

You're my 'enabler' - I can't stop buying old PC's. My latest win was a decent case, Phenom 2 X6 1035T, 16GB DDR3, 240Gb SSD, decent PSU and ASUS mobo, opt drive, Radeon HD7770 for £40.... Keep it up!!

Damn hats off to all the peeps that guessed the q6600.

Doesnt really matter what it was....it was FIVE DOLLARS!! lmao. ANY working PC for that price is a steal!

The goat of CPUs itself: The Q6600 Interesting thing about it, as it is just a chiplet design with two Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs, the cores have to communicate somehow, which they don’t do like today’s chiplet-designed processors (Infinity fabric for example) Instead they had to communicate through the North Bridge, which could lead to latency between both dies

The Q6600, quite legendary of a CPU. I’ve used it until 2019 with a Radeon HD 7850 and it was such a massive jump from what I’ve had before. Your system might be a bit slower than what I’ve had but it was such a nostalgia trip going back….thank you for sharing your experience with it ☺️

I still use a Q6600 pc to transfer videos to harddisk. I work mainly with 8mm film and my old trusty pci card gives much better image quality than the best usb video grabber. I built this pc in 2006 for this job and is still in use.

this pc truly is a budget pc, it can pretty much do anything w/o any issue. browsing? yes, gaming? also yes, you can play lots of game as long as u go tweaking some graphics setting. with only 6 bucks this is just a steal it also have the old classic core 2 quad series, they got some really good performance even in 2024 considering the age, it can probably do some light editing with somewhat acceptable performance, good old day when intel is still in their peak

My mans a pro at sniping on eBay these days

Watching you slash away at that floppy, flimsy box with a pair of blunt scissors shows all the other tech channels just how opening a box should be done, excellent stuff keep it up :)

I watched this on my Core 2 Quad Q6600! They are still fantastic CPUs, in fact the Athlon II and Phenom II are great still today. These late 2000s CPUs still have enough power to brute force through modern bloated and unoptomized websites and software, and when you do find something optomized they are absolutely incredible.

Your videos are such a treat everytime. When you said "Q6600" I literally raised my fist a bit in the air and quietly said "Yes!" xD

I love watching people record outside because the lighting is almost always immaculate xD and it's free space! Whoohooo

If anyone is working on old computers and has a lot of crappy thermal paste on things, use something like mineral spirits to clean it up. Alcohol does nothing to actually dissolve and clean up the paste and you would be just as well off using water. If you really need to clean the stuff you will need to use something to dissolve it. My last job involved putting lots of thermal paste on RF power supplies. It says right on the container that you need mineral spirits or turpentine to dissolve the stuff and not just spread it around. Just food for thought if you every have issues getting old thermal paste off of things.

giving the Q6600 another round of modern computing would be most welcome. fromwhat you show here, it seems it could be quite positive. Thanks again, old sod.

ahh yes, the Q6600, the best bang for buck quad core of its time and it held on for a long time. With a decent overclock you could game on it for many more years. These days, due to the old architecture and lack of some instructions, some modern games won't even launch on it (plus, the actual cores being 2+2 since it's basically a dual-dual core CPU stitched together).

Scored a 780ti and a 4760k with 16gb ram from the side of the road, pc was basically still brand new, RGB and quiet as. Was like a gaming pc used in a office haha

Please for the love of Lord, change the thermal compound on the North bridge if you work with old 775 pcs Or go even further installing a small 40mm fan on top Core 2 quads and 771 xeons put A LOT of stress on that weak little chip Good video nonetheless Thank you mate