R.I.P The Beast 2006-2013.

[mikevs]

After nearly 7 years of owning the computer I finally had to get rid of it. I had some good times with the Q6600 rig but it was showing its age and having issues. In previous threads I mentioned the problems I was having with constant freezing and booting problems. Finally the computer constant freezing and boot failures I had enough.

I disassembled the computer and salvaged parts I could sell.

However, it turns out my motherboard was the issue and my Power supply was on its way out.

Sadly I am unable to build a new rig due to lack of funds at this time. Also being a full time college student, I am unable to get a job that can suit my hours. I am selling old stuff on eBay and Amazon but its going to be awhile before I have the funds needed.

Instead my parents are considering getting me the computer for Christmas/Birthday gift as the dates are very close together. If not I will use the money I get through selling online and from family during through the holidays and my birthday.

I will be out of a gaming rig to at least December. Its going to suck as most of my games are on my PC.

So instead I wiped the dust of my PS3 and booted the thing up. I have not played it in so long that I had an hour long worth of updates. The PS3 will keep me entertained for now but since gaming on the PC, I can really see how poor the graphics are on the PS3. They are not terrible but way less detailed that what I used to have .

The newest part I had on my old PC was a GTX 460. Everything else was original. Luckily I was able to salvage that along with my Ancient OCZ Reaper DDR2 Ram .

I plan on recycling my Power Supply, CPU, Crappy Antec 900 1st gen Case, and Motherboard soon.

I wish the PC could have lasted until December so I can continue to play games but sadly this will not be the case. My Laptop is not powerful enough to play modern games on low settings due to the horrendous 1st generation i5 Intel Integrated graphics. My PS3 should keep me busy for now

 

[Xpage]

I call my PC the beast too.

 

[Headfoot]

Hey I think the Antec 900 is awfully nice for the money. Why are you keeping the power supply if its on its way out?

 

[Blitzvogel]

Hard to believe the Q6600 is still such a completely usable CPU. You can thank the consoles for that

It's why my Phenom II is still good enough, though like you I'm poor and itching to move up to a quad Haswell + Radeon R9 (lol their numbering scheme this time around). Full time work and school already is costing me enough time and money, and it's only going to get worse in the spring

 

[mikevs]

Hey I think the Antec 900 is awfully nice for the money. Why are you keeping the power supply if its on its way out?

I am not keeping my PSU, I am recycling it lol

 

[SammichPG]

After nearly 7 years of owning the computer I finally had to get rid of it. I had some good times with the Q6600 rig but it was showing its age and having issues. In previous threads I mentioned the problems I was having with constant freezing and booting problems. Finally the computer constant freezing and boot failures I had enough.

...SNIP SNIP....

I plan on recycling my Power Supply, CPU, Crappy Antec 900 1st gen Case, and Motherboard soon.

I wish the PC could have lasted until December so I can continue to play games but sadly this will not be the case. My Laptop is not powerful enough to play modern games on low settings due to the horrendous 1st generation i5 Intel Integrated graphics. My PS3 should keep me busy for now

Time to dive into GoG and make good use of that IGP. Everything up to 2005-2006 should run well.

 

[dma0991]

I will be out of a gaming rig to at least December.

So instead I wiped the dust of my PS3 and booted the thing up.

GTA 5. That should last you till December if you aim for 100% completion. :biggrin:

 

[wilds]

Yep. Sell as much as you can, play GTA V until December. Amazing game, but it doesn't look too pretty if you are used to PC games.

 

[Maximilian]

Hey I think the Antec 900 is awfully nice for the money. Why are you keeping the power supply if its on its way out?

I hated mine. Dust filters were a PITA to get to and the build quality for the price wasent all that great.

Antec 300 though... bargain! :biggrin:

Sorry for your loss OP

 

[fleshconsumed]

Heh, I still have 3 working 9450/9550 rigs, and E8400 in my HTPC as well. And they're all still working. I'm finally going to start slowly retire them this year. I'm going to retire one 9450 and E8400, put 9550 into HTPC, and maybe build a low end gaming rig for my gf with 9450. Maybe I can get her to play L4D or Portal2 with me...

 

[dave_the_nerd]

R.I.P.

(I dumped my Q6600 last spring. You'll get something going soon. And you'll like it way better.)

 

[tweakboy]

Ya good time to wipe off some dust off that PS3.

Sorry for your troubles. When you are ready to upgrade come here and ask for help guidance. We will guide you the whole way through it. gl


I had my Q6600 on P5K since Nov 2007. I upgraded last December and it changed my life almost as much as SSD changed my life. I would upgarde even if you dont have to.
But def you need a SSD. Get a 120GB and you can put windows on it and all your apps. gl

 

[Seven]

Should have bought a used MB instead of parting it out.

 

[Blue_Max]

Should have bought a used MB instead of parting it out.

Agreed! You can even still get new 775 boards at a few places! That, a new PSU, plus your old RAM and video card is still a very viable system!

 

[Denithor]

Should have bought a used MB instead of parting it out.

This was my first thought too.

 

[aigomorla]

I call my PC the beast too.

My PC is called Nadeshiko...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato_nadeshiko


Id rather have my PC be elegant... more so then a beast... although she could slay most beasts on this forum..

 

[Yuriman]

I retired my Q6600 to my wife about 2 years ago and threw an HD7850 in it. It's still quite respectable. The only issues I have with it were issues that were there on day 1 - wake-from-sleep issues that plagued almost all Gigabyte boards of the day. One fix for me is to just use S1 sleep.

 

[PliotronX]

Q6600 was such a great workhorse, I got the most longevity out of it I've ever enjoyed from any CPU. I desoldered the IHS and mounted my massive TRUE on those unsuspecting cores and got a couple hundred extra MHz out of it. Retiring mine too as a media server but it plays anything mighty fine. I hope the 4670k can see that kind of longevity but in the midst of octa cores who knows lol.

 

[FalseChristian]

Do you think my system will be good for another week or so?

 

[escrow4]

GTA 5 is horrific on consoles - blurry textures, lack of [any] decent lighting/reflections, lack of quality shadows, upscaled DVD res (480p I'd bet), complete lack of any AF or AA, runs at 25FPS if that etc etc; its like a fancy PS2 game to my eyes after gaming on PC for so long.

On that Q6600 my $45 Celeron is actually faster in single threaded tasks and only slower in heavily multithreaded apps whilst sipping a fraction of the power, ahhhh, progress.

 

[SPBHM]

GTA 5 is horrific on consoles - blurry textures, lack of [any] decent lighting/reflections, lack of quality shadows, upscaled DVD res (480p I'd bet), complete lack of any AF or AA, runs at 25FPS if that etc etc; its like a fancy PS2 game to my eyes after gaming on PC for so long.

OT:
1280x720, framerate during regular gameplay is not much lower than 30, the image quality looks good, much better than GT4 on consoles.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-grand-theft-auto-5-face-off



as for the Q6600, overclock it to around 3GHz (just bump the FSB to 333, most G0s could do this without any other adjustment), and you have a decent CPU, clearly faster than the "Pentiums" for MT, not to slow for ST I guess... considering how old it is... it still a great CPU..

if the rest of your parts are OK, I think buying another motherboard is not the worst idea.

 

[Yuriman]

OT:
1280x720, framerate during regular gameplay is not much lower than 30, the image quality looks good, much better than GT4 on consoles.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-grand-theft-auto-5-face-off



as for the Q6600, overclock it to around 3GHz (just bump the FSB to 333, most G0s could do this without any other adjustment), and you have a decent CPU, clearly faster than the "Pentiums" for MT, not to slow for ST I guess... considering how old it is... it still a great CPU..

if the rest of your parts are OK, I think buying another motherboard is not the worst idea.

OP may also need to disable C1E, and will definitely need to set a memory divider.

 

[escrow4]

OT:
1280x720, framerate during regular gameplay is not much lower than 30, the image quality looks good, much better than GT4 on consoles.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-grand-theft-auto-5-face-off



as for the Q6600, overclock it to around 3GHz (just bump the FSB to 333, most G0s could do this without any other adjustment), and you have a decent CPU, clearly faster than the "Pentiums" for MT, not to slow for ST I guess... considering how old it is... it still a great CPU..

if the rest of your parts are OK, I think buying another motherboard is not the worst idea.

Look at image 13. The bum looks right out of Manhunt on PS2, and the textures are horrific. Yes, I'll pass.

 

[FwFred]

I disassembled the computer and salvaged parts I could sell.

I have sprayed some of my duster can on the floor for your loss.

 

[JManInPhoenix]

Sorry for your loss - I just tossed my 975XBX w/ E6600 last month (2006-2013). Was a great system but finally gave up the ghost (probably the motherboard since most other stuff has been changed over time).