e lo Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 Hi, all. I'm a brand newb to the OSX86 scene, so I apologize if this is a dumb question. I've tried installing with JaS's iso of 10.4.6. Unfortunately, the iso must not have burned properly, because when I boot the installer with -v, I see an EBIOS error, which probably accounts for why it takes forever and a day to boot into the installer, if it ever does. However, leaving that aside for the moment (I'm DL a fresh copy of an iso at the moment, and I'll try to reburn "correctly" -- i.e. w/ Alcohol 120% and at 1X instead of w/ Nero at 4X as before), here's my actual question: When I run CPU-Z from Windows, it correctly identifies my P4 (Prescott core) as having SSE2 and SSE3 instruction sets, as it should. However, when I run the 10.4.6 installer with -v, it lists SSE2, but not SSE3, as onboard instruction sets. What gives, do you suppose? Machine: Dell Dimension 8400 P4 Prescott, HT, 3.0 GHz 1.5 gig corsair memory Onboard sound/NIC NVidia 6600GT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wondergod Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 i don't think that matters to tell you the truth....i would still just install the sse3 options and reinstall if it gives you a problem... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 The Installer DVD boots off of an SSE2 kernel, which is why it only sees SSE2. OS X will see SSE3 after you've installed with the SSE3 option checked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e lo Posted November 21, 2006 Author Share Posted November 21, 2006 The Installer DVD boots off of an SSE2 kernel, which is why it only sees SSE2. OS X will see SSE3 after you've installed with the SSE3 option checked. Cheers. Thanks, guys. I went ahead and installed with a good burn of JaS's 10.4.7 iso. I installed as SSE2 before I saw your responses, and it's working great. Sound, internets etc. If, however, I were to go back and reinstall as SSE3, so you think I would get a noticable performance boost? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wondergod Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 maybe not that great of performance boost however itunes and quicktime and some pro apps usually work better with sse3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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