Hi,

I'm thinking about getting rid of my socket a mobo. Mainly because of these highly expensive / rare, power hungry cpus (No C'n'Q). Socket A cpus have the following instructions: MMX, 3Dnow (extended 3Dnow) and SSE

Now i've chosen a socket 754 mobo. I guess i'll start with the fastest low budget sempron 3400+ (with C'n'Q, appr. 20W less than Socket A cpus). It supports MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3 and AMD64

Will these additional Instruction sets be any advantage to the Socket A cpu?

OR:

What Instr. sets does BOINC use?

OR:

Do different projects use different instructions sets?

Great if anybody could answer these questions!

Thanx in advance, Steffen

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Different projects use different instruction sets, since they all have different requirements. While things like SSE sound useful, for a number of projects they're inappropriate, whereas for others they may be very good.

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Different projects use different instruction sets, since they all have different requirements. While things like SSE sound useful, for a number of projects they're inappropriate, whereas for others they may be very good.

Thx! Now I would find it interesting what specific requirements different projects have. I mean every cheap video editing tool can tell me that. At least the programmers should know that and this information should be available.

I think it could be quiet useful, for example if you have more than one computer like me (with different processors) to decide: What cpu is better for a specific project (or would it be a waste of (cpu-) time?)


Greetings!

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Honza has compiled a table of project performance versus architecture (Intel/AMD) which is quite useful for that purpuse, it's on our Synergy forums somewhere.

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