Just got my Athlon XP yesterday and well I read somewhere that I should reinstall the OS after upgrading to an Athlon XP because the cpu has SSE and windows is suppose to make use of it. But only after a reinstall. I don't know if that's true or not. What do you guys think? Don't really want to do reinstall cause otherwise I'll probably be spending the whole day resetting it up. But hey I guess for the performance benefit it's worth it right.
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Should I reinstall my OS after my new Athlon XP?
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I really don't see why you'd need to reinstall to get the full use of the chip. Once you stick it in, windows should see it and utilize all the features.
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Yeah I probably won't reinstall cause i think that windows supposed to auto-detect too. But on the other hand I can't get Vcool to cool down my CPU anymore. I have to enable the IDLE LOOP in order for it to cool down. Man! Windows is just starting to really stress me out. Every Windows OS has been a real headache at times.
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well I remember someone saying the reason to upgrade but for the life of me I can't remember. I think your apps may need to be reinstalled to take advantage as well. run sandra first and see if it sees sse.
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penguinfreak said:
i am pretty sure you might only need to update for a chip swap but if you swap out mobo you need a full reinstall... marry christmas all...
If you are running NT/2000/XP, changes like motherboard require a reinstall (custom drivers for your hardware are installed). Might be the same for CPU change, I dunno. If it works, it works, so don't worry about. If you have to upgrade, you can use backup to backup everything including your settings. And then restore the backup after the reinstall.
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Download WCPUID and check if it says SSE is supported. If it isn't, you'll need to reinstall the OS to make it support SSE
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penguinfreak said:
But the Tbird and Spitfire Durons are about the same, just with a different amount of cache. They don't have different instructions added to one or the other. That's not the case with an XP, as they have SSE
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crash893 said:
There is a difference why else would they put sse on there
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