Is AMD's "SSE patch" available?

[kirkhere]

Been reading about this (both in the Anandtech reviews of XP processors and elsewhere), but nowhere on the web do I find a link to this "patch."

Was it bogus, after all, or did it yield any real-world benefits? If it's tiny, would someone email it my way?

I'd really like to know. Every percent counts when it comes to speed!

Thanks,

kirkhere

 

[FalseChristian]

Go to oveclockers.com and check the Intel CPU forum. Do a search for VID mod and you wil find it.

 

[ugh]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't SSE in the XPs already? Unless you're referring to SSE2...

 

[XBoxLPU]

Is this for T-birds ?

 

[AGodspeed]

A few clarifications...

Only the Athlon XP processors have SSE support, no Athlon Thunderbirds have SSE support. No AMD processors at all have SSE2 support. SSE2 will finally be supported in AMD's upcoming ClawHammer processor, due to debut at the very end of this year.

I'm assuming this SSE patch you're speaking of is the Content Creation patch. If so, this patch, AFAIK, is not publically available. However, it will be released, most of the public just doesn't know when yet.

 

[xander5000]

go to microsoft update for a patch (not sure which one it is).

x

 

[dew042]

i believe the patch that everyone was yelling about was for the windows media encoder part of the ziff davis benchmarks. the windows media encoder didn't recognize the xp as having sse instructions. sse should work on the vast majority of everything else.

atleast that's what i understand, so don't worry about it.

dew.

 

[Richardito]

<< A few clarifications...

Only the Athlon XP processors have SSE support, no Athlon Thunderbirds have SSE support. No AMD processors at all have SSE2 support. SSE2 will finally be supported in AMD's upcoming ClawHammer processor, due to debut at the very end of this year.

I'm assuming this SSE patch you're speaking of is the Content Creation patch. If so, this patch, AFAIK, is not publically available. However, it will be released, most of the public just doesn't know when yet. >>



Don't forget that the Morgan Durons also support the SSE instructions!