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Weaksauce
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so i want to start real cheap and i already have a core 2 duo and a mobo and was thinking of buying a 1060 for now, does a core 2 duo make preformance that bad or is it ok?
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so i want to start real cheap and i already have a core 2 duo and a mobo and was thinking of buying a 1060 for now, does a core 2 duo make preformance that bad or is it ok?
im so sorry i forgot to say i was planing to mostly mine with it and perhaps game lol, i live in canada and found a 1060 for 300 cad so yea what do yall think? and btw that card was siting around for a month no gamer wants 1060s their bad for their price in a gaming aspect
He already has one. That's still cheaper.No point in getting a Core 2 Duo when used Pentium G3258's go for $10 on flea bay. I've had one doing 4.5GHz for 6 years in an ASUS H81M-E (which cost $50 when it was new). It's great for older games that only hammer 1 core.
Its funny you folks lave mentioned nothing but Haswell in this thread -I boufgt an overclockable Pentium, combo from Microceter, and upgraded it years later to a closeout 4790k!Core 2 anything running Windows 10 will be painful due to all of the CPU vulnerability mitigations. I'd only recommend it if you had no other choice. You can get complete i7-4770 machines on Ebay for less than $250.
You're looking at a 50-90% performance loss with all of the vulnerability patches, and they can't be turned off.
Meh, just run Windows 7 and avoid all the forced mitigations. If you're running hardware that old, standards are already lowered anyway. There aren't too many DX12 titles out there that don't have a fallback render path.Core 2 anything running Windows 10 will be painful due to all of the CPU vulnerability mitigations...
You're looking at a 50-90% performance loss with all of the vulnerability patches, and they can't be turned off.
I ran a 750ti in a single core Athlon 64 once. Now that was absurd! Even worse, the power supply in that machine was sagging down to 11.2v on the 12V rail when the GPU was active. Fun times.GTX 1060 paired with a C2D is just silly. I have a GTX 670 with my E8500 and even it's a fairly absurd pairing of technology.
Still have that Pentium somewhere around?
defaultuser refers to the Pentium G3258. It was the only Haswell-generation Pentium that was unlocked (and thus overclockable).Which Pentium? I literally have drawers full of Intel CPUs.
Get anything newer. I'd recommend at least Ivy Bridge or newer at this point. Minimum quad core. Or else that 1060 is going to be severely bottlenecked.
Aside from the OS patches - basically Meltdown-only - nothing older than Sandy Bridge was given the CPU mitigations by Intel.Core 2 anything running Windows 10 will be painful due to all of the CPU vulnerability mitigations. I'd only recommend it if you had no other choice. You can get complete i7-4770 machines on Ebay for less than $250.
You're looking at a 50-90% performance loss with all of the vulnerability patches, and they can't be turned off.
Wolfdale (E8500) was launched in early 2008.2006. Bloomfield is 2008.
I painted a best-case-scenario for OP, given the constraints. You wanna throw in a worse-case-scenario, go right ahead.
OP its fine for mining
if you read the thread, even the first 5 posts, youd realize he wants it for gaming...
fair enough, missed that part some how.Idk he clarified in a later post saying he planned to mostly mine and maybe game. Read posr #5
fair enough, missed that part some how.
part of the confusion is hes asking about c2d and a video card for mining/gaming in the motherboard section....I alwayys read the thread and part of the reason why i responded was all the replies were about gaming