The Core2 Quad Q6600 is over 7 years old which is a lot of processor lifetimes! This particular model has been included in the group test simply as a reference because of its exceptional popularity back when it was at the forefront of technological advance. The Q6600's four physical cores demonstrate exceptional overclocking capacity and often achieve in excess of 40% performance increases. Modern Quad core processors offer nearly three times more performance on both single and multi-core workloads. There have also been lots of non-processing related improvements in the platform over the last 7 years which include SATA 600 MB/s, USB 3.0 PCIe and more. [Mar '14CPUPro]
Probably the best CPU for light gaming on budget or for office computers. It's integrated graphics (Vega 6 in this APU) may run some older games fine and for the price is slightly more powerful than the comparable Celeron G4900 in terms of both CPU and integrated GPU performance. [Oct '19ColdSpy]
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