6600t good for anything?

[Aaralli]

I have an Intel Core i5-6600t from a tiny old Lenovo Thinkcentre computer. That was pretty much the only thing I considered worth salvaging as I was getting rid of it. Is there anything that the 6600t could be good for? I don't have much money for extra things, but at some point it would be cool to put this thing to use again. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Spotty]

4 minutes ago, Aaralli said:

That was pretty much the only thing I considered worth salvaging as I was getting rid of it. Is there anything that the 6600t could be good for?

You didn't keep the motherboard for it?

Sell it on eBay.

[SupaKomputa]

That cpu is still good enough for most applications, the drawback is it's clockspeed, 2.7ghz is not good for modern gaming.

You can also use it as a NAS cpu which doesn't need high clock and will benefit from its low power consumption.

[Aaralli]

1 minute ago, Spotty said:

You didn't keep the motherboard for it?

Sell it on eBay.

I still have the motherboard, but it's like the lowest of low quality boards... Literally one SATA port, and it has one slot for a maximum of 8 gigabytes of SO-DIMM memory.

[Aaralli]

25 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

That cpu is still good enough for most applications, the drawback is it's clockspeed, 2.7ghz is not good for modern gaming.

You can also use it as a NAS cpu which doesn't need high clock and will benefit from its low power consumption.

If I bought like a B150 or B250 motherboard for it, would that be decent for anything good?

[SupaKomputa]

That thinkcenter can also be good as a HTPC, plug it in a big TV and use it as a media center.

Use KODI or Plex to watch locally stored movies.

[TomvanWijnen]

An i5 6600t is still a fine processor, you can still use that for many years! As others have said, connecting it to your TV could be a good idea. Another idea is giving it to a family member with a worse PC to use.