Opteron sse3?

tron2k3 · 18 Mar 2006 at 18:06

Hi,

I've been reading the threads and the opteron 144 seems to be a good "bang for your buck" choice.

I was just wondering whether these have sse3 and which batch of Opteron's have it?

Cheers

Will

Kesnel · 18 Mar 2006 at 18:06

They have SSE3, yes.

james.miller · 18 Mar 2006 at 18:08

all of the 939's do, as they are either san diego cores (single) or Toledo based (x2), both of which support sse3

m3csl2004 · 18 Mar 2006 at 18:10

james.miller said:
all of the 939's do, as they are either san diego cores (single) or Toledo bassed (x2), both of which support sse3

not really

939 newcastle/clawhammers dont

edit: sorry i misread your post - on a second read i thik you mean all the 939 opty's?

james.miller · 18 Mar 2006 at 18:11

m3csl2004 said:
not really

939 newcastle/clawhammers dont

all of the 939 opterons....

m3csl2004 · 18 Mar 2006 at 18:12

i edit fast

james.miller · 18 Mar 2006 at 18:12

LOL

tron2k3 · 18 Mar 2006 at 18:15

wow that was quick 6 replyes in 6mins

Cheers guys

I will go ahead and puchase.

trojan698 · 18 Mar 2006 at 18:25

what actually IS sse3? my winny doesnt have it ;<

helpimcrap · 18 Mar 2006 at 18:54

trojan698 said:
what actually IS sse3? my winny doesnt have it ;<

SSE2 but a bit better. not as big a jump from SSE1 -> SSE2 though.

ps3ud0 · 20 Mar 2006 at 09:22

trojan698 said:
what actually IS sse3? my winny doesnt have it ;<

Dont actually think the SSE3 instructions are that much use in the real world since the only compiler that utilises it is Intels own which as far as I know isnt really used for a lot of apps (expensive to license)...

Pretty sure MS and the like utilises upto SSE2 only...

ps3ud0 :cool:

tron2k3 · 20 Mar 2006 at 09:48

I'm thinking of installing osx on there and is advantageous with sse3

Cheers

Will

m3csl2004 · 20 Mar 2006 at 13:28

didnt even know you could run osx on x86 cpus :confused:

FreeStream · 20 Mar 2006 at 13:31

tron2k3 said:
I'm thinking of installing osx on there and is advantageous with sse3

Cheers

Will

You cant do that, so dont try

tron2k3 · 20 Mar 2006 at 19:41

you can with a patched version

Hyper · 20 Mar 2006 at 20:15

When i had the SSE instructions disabled in my bios (by accident) Quake 4 wouldnt play so they must do something.

FreeStream · 20 Mar 2006 at 20:20

tron2k3 said:
you can with a patched version

Ummn, I hope you realise you wont get any support or updates and things will probably not work?

Want to use OS X, get a mac :rolleyes:

instead of using illegal software.

Conc

tron2k3 · 20 Mar 2006 at 21:23

right sorry :rolleyes:

tom_e · 20 Mar 2006 at 21:42

i wouldnt continue the discussion on it much further the dons dont like it

Mr Paul · 21 Mar 2006 at 15:28

The Patched Intel x86 OSX will not work on AMD chips period, they have yet to get it to work