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Xeon

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Good your not complaining and I am not careing seems we have found common ground on this again stupid whatever we were doing.

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Andrzej_Pl

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very n00bish question...what is SSE3....what impact it has on performance...and shall I wait like few weeks and got me this venice, apart the winchester core (PC is for games and watching movies)

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Well lets get this straight, its technically not going to be SSE3 on the A64 since 2 of those new instructions are for Hyprer Threading but meh what do I care AMD has the PR system.

Otherwise its a media excelleration extention(s), as per performance might give you a bit of a speed up on newer media creation software. Otherwise this is just another revision, nothing to get overly excited about.

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For games, SSE3 is not likely going to change anything significant, for certain media encoding apps, there might be a worthwhile speedup. If you're only into games, and watching movies (really doesn't require anything highend), I would safely ignore SSE3.

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