wow!

GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 LifeAkron, PA Icrontian
edited December 2003 in Folding@Home
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

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  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Insrtuction set optimization is a wonderful thing.
    Those of us still running non-SSE cpus will now be left further behind.
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited December 2003
    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:
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited December 2003
    Man where have you been. Gromacs have been out forever.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited December 2003
    Well, it really increased production on my (Tualatin-core) Celeron...
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited December 2003
    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_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Yes, those switches work well on a P4 also.

    John.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    edcentric wrote:
    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?
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited December 2003
    "two KT7A mobos with overclocked TBirds (1.3 at 1.4 and 1.4 at 1.6)" in his sig.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    mmonnin wrote:
    "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?
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    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.
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    SSE first appeared on the XP.
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited December 2003
    Virtues of Evil wrote:
    SSE first appeared on the XP.

    Right, all versions of the Athlon XP have SSE instructions.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited December 2003
    Didnt Morgon Durons have SSE or was that 3dnow!?
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited December 2003
    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.
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