Only Intruder:

Q6600 has been badly affected by the spectre/meltdown mitigation patches though. Stock clocks on it are unbearable. My Q6600 system is still in use in my Dad's PC Q6600 + X38 + DDR2 1066MHz - I had it clocked to 3GHz as a nice cool and quiet OC but now with that overclock, performance is like as if it was at stock clocks, it's pretty much essential to have over 3GHz overclock now. Also, before Spectre, at 1080p if you wanted to play Battlefield 4, you needed at least 3.4GHz on the CPU if you wanted to hit 60fps average (I could get my chip to 3.51GHz max stable).

yeah 60 fps with 24 players

You guys are really off topic no one cares about CPU's from 10 years ago let alone 5 years ago. For the 9th Gen it would be best focused on what hardware fixes will Intel provide against Spectre and Meltdown.

floppyedonkey:

You guys are really off topic no one cares about CPU's from 10 years ago let alone 5 years ago. For the 9th Gen it would be best focused on what hardware fixes will Intel provide against Spectre and Meltdown.

Well I do.

It seems the endless rumors and speculation over Nvidia's next-gen GPUs has now turned into endless rumors and speculations about Intel's 9000 series. And much like the Turing GPUs, the 9000 CPUs will probably largely be paper launches - with shortages expected well into 2019, Intel will likely delay or limit these chips in favor of their enterprise customers. In short, don't hold your breath for these chips.

SniperX:

Reason enough to upgrade from a Q6600?

Am i the only one who thinks that is a irony ?