Sse2

[Capt quirk]

I recently bought a MachSpeed MSNV-939 MoBo and AMD Athlon 64 CPU. I know the CPU has SSE2, but does the mainboard have it too, or is it up to the processor? I called the tech support at machSpeed, and he didn't even know what it was. I asked for another tech, who insisted that if the board supports the chip, it must support SSE.

[Capt quirk]

Nobody knows anymore about SSE than me?

[Colemanguy]

Look for a program called cpuz, which will tell you if your board supports sse2, i believe only intel processers do, but could be wrong. Its one or the other through, not both.

[lbmest]

I believe it is all about the processor architecture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction_set

CPUs supporting SSE2

* AMD K8-based CPUs (Athlon 64, Sempron, Turion 64, etc)
* Intel NetBurst-based CPUs (Pentium 4, Xeon, Celeron, etc)
* Intel Pentium M and Celeron M
* Intel Core-based CPUs (Core Duo, Core Solo, etc)
* Intel Core 2-based CPUs (Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, etc)
* Transmeta Efficeon
* Via C7

[Capt quirk]

LBMEST- I saw those pages, and it left me as confused as you. I know my last board, the Abit KN8 SLI, had a setting that was SSE enabled or disabled. This one doesn't, and it makes me wonder.

[Capt quirk]

Colmanguy- Thanks for pointing out that program, it confirmed that my processor supports SSE, SSE2, and SSE3. but it didn't say if my board does.

[Colemanguy]

If your cpu does, your board should as well. I don't know why it would offer the option to disable sse2 on your old board, theres really very little reason to do such a thing.

[Capt quirk]

I'm about two years behind technology, so I haven't got a clue. The local Geek Union has forbidden me to join. Since it was an actual setting on the Abit, I was under the assumption ( And you know what happens when you assume , that it was a feature like onboard SATA or USB. When I shopped for boards this time, it didn't dawn on me to check for it again. I checked the MachSpeed site, and it wasn't mentioned on the specs at all.