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SSE4.1

yah, its good enuf - unless you love the speed of your favorite encoder while it takes advantage of 4.1. Its about price/clockspeed IMO.

But i choose dual cores for now, so what do i know? 🙂
 
I dunno about sse4.1, but on occasion the q9xxx series has sizable performance improvements per clock over q6xxx. Whether this is sse4.1, the larger l2 cache, or what, I don't know, but it's there.
 
SSE support is software-specific - either you have programs that have been recompiled to use it, or not. Adoption is pretty limited so far, between being a very new feature, and not being supported by AMD.

There are some other technical advantages to the 9000 series - some other IPC improvements, and lower power consumption due to being 45nm. Whether any of this is worth it to you depends on your budget 🙂 The overall speed differences are not what you'd call "impressive." It's just a refresh.
 
I think the most important SSE 4.1 app out right now is Divx as far as I know.

In fact I haven't heard of any others.
 
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