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GnomeWizardd
29 Dec 2003, 6:44pm
I have seen a BIG and I mean BIG boost from using -forcesse -advmethods

I never thought it was that big of a dif but damn! 3 wu in 1 day! thats alot compared to the normal 1 a day
edcentric
29 Dec 2003, 7:15pm
Insrtuction set optimization is a wonderful thing.
Those of us still running non-SSE cpus will now be left further behind.
muddocktor
29 Dec 2003, 7:37pm
Gnome, now you see why most people want to run SSE with their modern AMD procs. The point differential is tremendous. How do you think all us farmers and folks folding with school computers put up such big points? :ninja:
mmonnin
29 Dec 2003, 11:17pm
Man where have you been. Gromacs have been out forever.
Geeky1
29 Dec 2003, 11:21pm
Well, it really increased production on my (Tualatin-core) Celeron...
muddocktor
29 Dec 2003, 11:41pm
Most definitely Geeky. SSE will bring a Tualatin Celeron or P3 up to the same production rate as an XP at the same clock speed and will outfold a Tbird at the same speed on Gromacs.
Straight_Man
30 Dec 2003, 12:38am
Yes, those switches work well on a P4 also.

John.
csimon
30 Dec 2003, 4:40am
Insrtuction set optimization is a wonderful thing.
Those of us still running non-SSE cpus will now be left further behind.
which non-sse cpus do you have ed?
mmonnin
30 Dec 2003, 7:01am
"two KT7A mobos with overclocked TBirds (1.3 at 1.4 and 1.4 at 1.6)" in his sig.
csimon
30 Dec 2003, 2:15pm
"two KT7A mobos with overclocked TBirds (1.3 at 1.4 and 1.4 at 1.6)" in his sig.
Ah I forgot ...I am building a kt7a-r t-bird 1.33 this week ...when does sse first appear in athlons on the xp?
edcentric
30 Dec 2003, 2:53pm
I know that full SSE is in the tbreadB, but I don't know about the pali and tbA.
The AMD website is useless for finding info like this. I have a XP1600, but it isn't where I can get at it and check.

It is nice to have other people answer for me.
Black Hawk
30 Dec 2003, 2:56pm
SSE first appeared on the XP.
muddocktor
30 Dec 2003, 4:14pm
SSE first appeared on the XP.

Right, all versions of the Athlon XP have SSE instructions.
mmonnin
30 Dec 2003, 5:30pm
Didnt Morgon Durons have SSE or was that 3dnow!?
muddocktor
30 Dec 2003, 5:52pm
Spitfire Durons only had 3DNow! instructions but the Morgan Durons have both, like the Athlon XP. I think that you might have to enable SSE on some mobos though, especially if you are upgrading from a Spitfire Duron or Tbird to a Morgan Duron. This can be done easily with wcpuid in the Tweaks column.