Sony α6600

My old 6600 from 2016 is still running fine, I replaced the SSD (Intel 400GB to X25-E 64GB that will last 20 years minimum), the RAM (Micron to Samsung from aliexpress before the price hike... [...] So far only PUBG stutters, what a joke of bloat and poor engineering that game has become... [...] Build something good with what you have right now. [...]

I'd love to load this up on the old 2080ti with 128gb of vram and play, even slowly. [...]

Is it worth to keep your old CPU? I still run a 6600 (65W peak) from 2016 as my daily driver. [...] or actually until the motherboard breaks; I have a Kaby Lake 35W replacement waititng for the 6600 to die.

[...] But only saturate the 3050 50% = perfect because the world takes much less CPU (you upload it to the GPU and then it's almost one drawcall; more like one drawcall per chunk but I digress) = OpenGL (ES) can render on it at lower motion-to-photon latency without waste = one core for rendering, one for gameplay, one for physics and one for the OS, audio and networking. [...]

Fact of the matter is that I have a Radeon RX 6600, which I can't use with ollama. First, there is no ROCm at all in my distros repository - it doesn't compile reliably and needs too many ressources. Then, when compiling it manually, it turns out that ROCm doesn't even support the card in the first place. I'm aware that 8GB Vram are not enough for most such workloads. But no support at all? That's ridiculous. Let me use the card and fall back to system memory for all I care. Nvidia, as much as I hate their usually awfully insufficient linux support, has no such restrictions for any of their modern cards, as far as I'm aware.

[...] Right after I bought it, my friends started getting Nokia 6600. [...] 3650's camera was 640x480 and had a noticeable delay after taking a photo. [...]

[...] But times are slower because I am on a 10 year old system :) So I gave it a whirl on sdf.org's Debian system Debian 6.1.140-1 (2025-05-22) x8664 GNU/Linux kenel 6.1.0-37-amd64 real 1m9.615s user 1m9.595s sys 0m0.016s That system is a true multi user system and had 54 users logged in when I ran it. [...]

I've used the official Nvidia drivers on Linux for 5 years now and had excellent performance and few or no graphical glitches, with most issues coming early on. None within the last 2 years. Never experienced high CPU or freezing. [...]

It works fairly well for me in Linux on WINE, even with Visual PinMAME. I believe I used the all-in-one installer (vpx7setup.exe, although there's a later version now). My GPU is an AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT, if that makes a difference.

Correction, you can get 4K@120hz with HDMI 2.0, but you won't get full chroma 4:4:4, instead 4:2:0 will be forced. In my case I have an htpc running linux and a radeon 6600 connected via hdmi to a 4k @ 120hz capable tv, and honestly, at the sitting distance/tv size and using 2x dpi scaling you just can't tell any chroma sub-sampling is happening. It is of course a ginormous problem when on a desktop setting and even worse if you try using 1x dpi scaling. What you will lose however is the newer forms of VRR, and it may be unstable with lots of dropouts.

My main workstation is similar, basically a top-end AM4 build. I recently bumped from a 6600 XT to a 9070 XT to get more frames in Arc Raiders, but looking at what the cost would be to go to the current-gen platform (AM5 mobo + CPU + DDR5 RAM) I find myself having very little appetite for that upgrade.

[...] The screen just flashes. [...]

When it comes to: "is it better to throw away the 6600 and replace it with a 5600, than keep running the 6600" I'm torn but: you probably need to use the 5600 for maybe 20 years to compensate for it's manufacturing energy cost (which is not directly linked to $ cost) and I think the 6600 might last that long with new RAM 10 years down the road, not so sure the newer 5600 motherboard and the CPU itself will make it that long becuse it was probably made to break to a larger extent. Also the 6600 can be passively cooled in the Streacom case I allready have, the 5600 is to hot.

[...] Happened so much on my current setup (6600 XT) that I don't bother with local AI anymore, because the time investment is just not worth it. [...]

[...] Hardware setup was the same, the only thing that changed is that I have updated my Linuxes in the meantime.

Super annoying. I have an RX 6600 XT and can't get ROCm to work on Linux. Vulkan ML however worked perfectly out of the box, so at least I got something. Just weird the official thing doesn't work.

[...] I only have it becuase it is dead silent and runs a 5K display without issue - but I would definitely like to upgrade it for something that can hold its own with ML.