SSE4.1 is it needed ?

[Ice Tea]

I see a lot of these budget chips below the E7xxx do not have the new SSE4.1 instruction set.

Is there anything currently using sse4.1 for it to be needed ?

Thanks

 

[nightmare99]

If you have a SSE4.1 supporting app video encoding can be upto 30% faster.

 

[Ice Tea]

But is there any app currently supporting SSE4.1 ?

 

[hairydave]

PCSX2 (ps2 emulator)

 

[Ice Tea]

I can't imagine i'll be using that app anytime soon

 

[PaulyD]

AFAIK that instruction set is mostly used in video encoding and as stated above if the app supports it then its even quicker to do its work

 

[JonJ678]

Below the e7*00 series I'd be more worried about dropping to 2mb of cache than about the instruction set personally.