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2 minutes ago, JI Rony said:

My friend bought an old computer with a Core 2 Duo processor at a very cheap price. It runs at 100% load just by browsing the web. I want to know should anyone buy this thing in 2017 or 2018. ( which is the best cheapest processor to buy? ).

Core 2 Quad Q6600 

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My friend bought an old computer with a Core 2 Duo processor at a very cheap price. It runs at 100% load just by browsing the web. I want to know should anyone buy this thing in 2017 or 2018. ( which is the best cheapest processor to buy? ).

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2 minutes ago, JI Rony said:

My friend bought an old computer with a Core 2 Duo processor at a very cheap price. It runs at 100% load just by browsing the web. I want to know should anyone buy this thing in 2017 or 2018. ( which is the best cheapest processor to buy? ).

Core 2 Quad Q6600 

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2 minutes ago, JI Rony said:

My friend bought an old computer with a Core 2 Duo processor at a very cheap price. It runs at 100% load just by browsing the web. I want to know should anyone buy this thing in 2017 or 2018. ( which is the best cheapest processor to buy? ).

Not really worth it, the q6600 and up may be kinda worth it since they're $20 but even then motherboards for LGA 755 are hard to find unless they're dell oem boards

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Q6600 

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No you should not buy any core2 computer anymore they are basically worthless. Even free isn't worth it My work has like 10 of them they would be happy to give me for free.  IMO the lowest processor your should go for is the first generation i5-i7s even then I would try to go for a second or third generation even those we are talking about almost an 8 year old computer.

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Just now, Catsrules said:

No you should not buy any core2 computer anymore they are basically worthless. Even free isn't worth it My work has like 10 of them they would be happy to give me for free.  IMO the lowest processor your should go for is the first generation i5-i7s even then I would try to go for a second or third generation even those we are talking about almost an 8 year old computer.

Neahelm i5/i7 is nearly the same thing as the Core 2s

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6 minutes ago, JDE said:

Neahelm i5/i7 is nearly the same thing as the Core 2s

Shh, if you say i5 it makes it sound super fast!

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14 minutes ago, JDE said:

Neahelm i5/i7 is nearly the same thing as the Core 2s

pretty sure the i7 is quite a bit faster than the core 2. not the i5 tho

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3 minutes ago, Himommies said:

pretty sure the i7 is quite a bit faster than the core 2. not the i5 tho

i7 is Core 2 Extreme levels last time I checked

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Delta - Laptop

ASUS TUF Dash F15 - Intel Core™ i7-11370H | 16GB DDR4 | RTX 3060 | 500GB NVMe SSD | 200W Brick | 65W USB-PD Charger

 


 

Intel is bringing DDR4 to the mainstream with the Intel® Core™ i5 6600K and i7 6700K processors. Learn more by clicking the link in the description below.

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