Computer Hope

Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: High1 on August 23, 2013, 09:50:24 AM

Title: SSE2 support?
Post by: High1 on August 23, 2013, 09:50:24 AM

Hello

How would I know if my processor has SSE2 support (whatever that is!)?

Thanks.

High1

Title: Re: SSE2 support?
Post by: Calum on August 23, 2013, 10:38:38 AM

CPU-Z (http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html) will tell you the instruction sets your CPU supports, including SSE2.  All modern CPUs support SSE2 though, so unless your PC is pretty old I'd be surprised if it didn't.

Title: Re: SSE2 support?
Post by: High1 on August 23, 2013, 12:40:02 PM

No, it's quite a new Packard Bell PC.

Thanks for your reassurance and the link. I will download it.

Cheers, Callum

Title: Re: SSE2 support?
Post by: Calum on August 23, 2013, 12:42:56 PM

No problem at all.  Your CPU will almost certainly support SSE2 then, but CPU-Z is still a useful tool to check what else is supported and so forth.

Title: Re: SSE2 support?
Post by: High1 on August 23, 2013, 01:10:00 PM

Yes, it looks a bit complicated but I will give it a go.

Thanks again.

High1

Title: Re: SSE2 support?
Post by: Salmon Trout on August 23, 2013, 01:39:26 PM

If the PC is less than 10 years old it almost certainly has it. SSE2, (Streaming SIMD Extensions 2), was  introduced by Intel with the first version of the Pentium 4 in 2001. AMD added SSE2 support with the Opteron and Athlon 64 ranges in 2003.

Title: Re: SSE2 support?
Post by: High1 on August 23, 2013, 02:16:29 PM

It's about 18 months old.

I asked because it was an Adobe system requirement to have a 2.0 CPU. Mine is 2.6 so I got the software, but today I lost what I had been working on. A respected Adobe forum contributor said that the PC would not 'hold' the software (a movie-making programme called Premiere Elements 11) due to my CPU - it's a Celeron; 64-bit Windows 7. 4GB RAM and well over 200GB free.

It hasn't lost my work before, so I wasn't sure if what I had been told was correct.

Thanks for listening!

High1

Title: Re: SSE2 support?
Post by: Salmon Trout on August 23, 2013, 02:24:48 PM

Quote from: High1 on August 23, 2013, 02:16:29 PM

A respected Adobe forum contributor said that the PC would not 'hold' the software (a movie-making programme called Premiere Elements 11) due to my CPU - it's a Celeron

That is nonsense. You lost whatever you lost for some other reason.

Title: Re: SSE2 support?
Post by: High1 on August 23, 2013, 02:42:19 PM

That's what I tend to think. In Event Viewer, Windows specifically pointed to the Abode application with error 1000. I am using it now, so I'll see how it goes, prepared to reinstall if necessary.

Thanks!