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advised to get sse booster ?
« on: October 27, 2009, 05:25:29 PM »

i have been advised to go for this to help make my folding faster because its an older machine, has any-one heard of it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions
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Re: advised to get sse booster ?
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2009, 03:24:02 AM »
SSE is part of the processor so unless you were to upgrade your processor it's not something you could download or get. Hope that helps.
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Re: advised to get sse booster ?
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2009, 01:19:25 PM »
thank you nathan , i'm looking into upgrading my processor so i'll have to find out what suits the pc and another stick of memory as well . can't think of anything else i would need
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Re: advised to get sse booster ?
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2009, 01:21:50 PM »
Make sure that the motherboard will support a multi-core processor first though.
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Re: advised to get sse booster ?
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2009, 01:23:23 PM »
Quote from: Quantos on November 06, 2009, 01:21:50 PM
Make sure that the motherboard will support a multi-core processor first though.



thats the other thing i was going to change , thanks quantos
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