sse3 and super pi

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MikeyLikesItSI

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• Mar 2, 2005

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I see that AMD just released a core that supposedly has sse3 support. I suppose that means now that they won't ***** and complain about super pi patch? now they got the support, so it will be "fair" in their book? pathetic.....

 

Know Nuttin

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• Mar 3, 2005

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who was whining?

 

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• Mar 3, 2005

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Everyone with an AMD A64 that got beat by a P-4 in Super Pi claims it's cheating.

But, I never use that "patch" because it's not really an official patch. It's a third party hack.

 

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• Mar 3, 2005

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Did the patch work properly buy just letting Pi use the prescotts sse3?
If yes i dont see a problem.

 

hawtrawkr

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• Mar 3, 2005

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jenko said:

Did the patch work properly buy just letting Pi use the prescotts sse3?
If yes i dont see a problem.

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yes i believe thats exactly what the patch does.

i think alot of people will dispute its credibility due to the fact that its not an offical patch as batboy mentioned.

 

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• Mar 4, 2005

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Saying the SSE3 Super Pi patch is a cheat in Intel's favor is like saying certain benchmarks aren't fair because AMD has an on-die memory controller, so we should throw a fudge factor into AMD benchmarks to make them slower and on-par with Intel's.

Just because one architecture has an advantage over the other in one area, doesn't mean you shouldn't make use of it.

 

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I couldn't agree more. Nobody every cries that its unfair that amd has an on chip controller. Thats just the way it is, thats what makes AMD, AMD. But i just don't understand why they get envy on intel if they peak ahead with soemthing so simple....

 

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• Mar 4, 2005

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i dont think anyone would complain about it if it were just an official patch put out. since it isnt people are going to complain.

even with it unpatched i can still beat out the majority of a64s i know of..... course im on phase change and still cant break 27 seconds though