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Do I have 'SSE Support'?
I'm downloading a trial of a video editor program called Adobe Premier
Elements (at 700 MB, my largest ever program download!). I've just noticed that under System Requirements it includes; "Intel® Pentium® (or compatible) 1.3GHz processor with SSE2 support.." In the spec for my 5 year old Athlon 1800 512 MB I can see no mention of "SSE Support" (whatever that is). How can I check whether or not I have it please? If it helps, here is the spec of my PC, which runs under XP Home (SP1): CPU = AMD Athlon XP1800+ with 512MB PC2100 DDR memory, m/b = ASUS A7A266-E (+sound), BIOS = Award Software with ASUS A7A266-E ACPI BIOS v 1009, System Chipset = M1647 ALiMAGiK 1 AGP System Controller, Buses = AGP/PCI/USB, L2 On-board Cache = 256kB ECC synchronous write-back. -- Terry, West Sussex, UK |
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Do I have 'SSE Support'?
"Terry Pinnell" wrote in message
... I'm downloading a trial of a video editor program called Adobe Premier Elements (at 700 MB, my largest ever program download!). I've just noticed that under System Requirements it includes; "Intel® Pentium® (or compatible) 1.3GHz processor with SSE2 support.." In the spec for my 5 year old Athlon 1800 512 MB I can see no mention of "SSE Support" (whatever that is). How can I check whether or not I have it please? If it helps, here is the spec of my PC, which runs under XP Home (SP1): I downloaded a trial of Adobe Premier Elements 2 and it required SSE2 support which the AthlonXP range do not support, unfortunately its one of those rare instances where having a Celeron or Pentium4 CPU or newer Athlon 64 would be benefitial. So unfortunately you won't be able to run it as it will inform you that it requires SSE2 support which your CPU doesn't have when you try to start it. |
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Do I have 'SSE Support'?
"Terry Pinnell" wrote in message ... I'm downloading a trial of a video editor program called Adobe Premier Elements (at 700 MB, my largest ever program download!). I've just noticed that under System Requirements it includes; "Intel® Pentium® (or compatible) 1.3GHz processor with SSE2 support.." In the spec for my 5 year old Athlon 1800 512 MB I can see no mention of "SSE Support" (whatever that is). How can I check whether or not I have it please? If it helps, here is the spec of my PC, which runs under XP Home (SP1): CPU = AMD Athlon XP1800+ with 512MB PC2100 DDR memory, m/b = ASUS A7A266-E (+sound), BIOS = Award Software with ASUS A7A266-E ACPI BIOS v 1009, System Chipset = M1647 ALiMAGiK 1 AGP System Controller, Buses = AGP/PCI/USB, L2 On-board Cache = 256kB ECC synchronous write-back. Read this Terry. If your CPU is 3Dnow capable, (I think it is), you should be fine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions |
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Do I have 'SSE Support'?
"1932" wrote in message
... Read this Terry. If your CPU is 3Dnow capable, (I think it is), you should be fine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions 3D Now is different to SSE2 he needs SSE2 support which his CPU doesn't have. I know it seems strange that an "Athlon 1800" won't be able to run a program but its true. |
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Do I have 'SSE Support'?
"Nick Le Lievre" wrote:
"1932" wrote in message ... Read this Terry. If your CPU is 3Dnow capable, (I think it is), you should be fine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions 3D Now is different to SSE2 he needs SSE2 support which his CPU doesn't have. I know it seems strange that an "Athlon 1800" won't be able to run a program but its true. Thanks both. You're right Nick. The download was faster than I expected so I went ahead and tried installing - only to get the message saying I didn't have SSE. Bummer... -- Terry, West Sussex, UK |
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Do I have 'SSE Support'?
"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message . com... "1932" wrote in message ... Read this Terry. If your CPU is 3Dnow capable, (I think it is), you should be fine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions 3D Now is different to SSE2 he needs SSE2 support which his CPU doesn't have. I know it seems strange that an "Athlon 1800" won't be able to run a program but its true. Thanks Nick, I`ll try to remember that one. 1932 |
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Do I have 'SSE Support'?
"Terry Pinnell" wrote in message
... "Nick Le Lievre" wrote: "1932" wrote in message ... Read this Terry. If your CPU is 3Dnow capable, (I think it is), you should be fine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions 3D Now is different to SSE2 he needs SSE2 support which his CPU doesn't have. I know it seems strange that an "Athlon 1800" won't be able to run a program but its true. Thanks both. You're right Nick. The download was faster than I expected so I went ahead and tried installing - only to get the message saying I didn't have SSE. Bummer... Maybe its time to upgrade thats if your serious about running Adobe Premier Elements, the Athlon 64 range support SSE2 and the venice cores SSE3 so with a CPU like that you should be OK for now and future versions of Adobe Premier Elements. Alternatively get a Celeron or Pentium4 but if your prepared to spend some real money get a Core 2 Duo CPU. |
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Do I have 'SSE Support'?
Terry Pinnell wrote:
I'm downloading a trial of a video editor program called Adobe Premier Elements (at 700 MB, my largest ever program download!). I've just noticed that under System Requirements it includes; "Intel® Pentium® (or compatible) 1.3GHz processor with SSE2 support.." In the spec for my 5 year old Athlon 1800 512 MB I can see no mention of "SSE Support" (whatever that is). How can I check whether or not I have it please? Not sure about your CPU, but to be sure, you need a utility that reads the capabilities of your CPU via the CPUID instruction. Such a beastie is he http://www.jimhowes.org.uk/cpuid.exe (although I think you're mad if you run unknown binaries that just anyone has left on the net). You can find the source at http://www.jimhowes.org.uk/cpuid.c (The uBrand[x] = x stuff is annoying and 'orrid looking, but I just couldn't get my head around MSVC's weird inline asm syntax. I'd do a linux version, but you might as well cat /proc/cpuinfo ) If someone wants to extend that to add flags present in newer CPU's please be my guest (but send me the changes, ok?) Various other programs will read CPU flags. I just successfully ran the windows .exe on a Fedora core 6 box. There is just something so wrong about that.... It makes me feel all icky.. :-) |
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Do I have 'SSE Support'?
Jim Howes writes:
[...] Various other programs will read CPU flags. I just successfully ran the windows .exe on a Fedora core 6 box. There is just something so wrong about that.... It makes me feel all icky.. :-) Yeah. Apart from anything else "cat /proc/cpuinfo" would surely give the same information on GNU/Linux? |
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Do I have 'SSE Support'?
"Terry Pinnell" wrote in message ... "Nick Le Lievre" wrote: "1932" wrote in message ... Read this Terry. If your CPU is 3Dnow capable, (I think it is), you should be fine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions 3D Now is different to SSE2 he needs SSE2 support which his CPU doesn't have. I know it seems strange that an "Athlon 1800" won't be able to run a program but its true. Thanks both. You're right Nick. The download was faster than I expected so I went ahead and tried installing - only to get the message saying I didn't have SSE. Bummer... -- Terry, West Sussex, UK Try Ulead http://www.ulead.com/vs/trial.htm Or Pinnacle studio |
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