Pentium D 820 cpu

[C0mputerNick]

I have a Pentium D 820 cpu, and from what ive read in the HCL should work perfectly for 10.4.8 and support the SSE3 spec.

 

When i go into "about this mac" all i see is SSE and SSE2 support.

 

I also have the Asus P5PE-VM, which is also suppose to work with 10.4.8.

 

My problem is I cannot boot any 10.4.8 DVD, even the re-seed jas 10.4.8 version, it does say SSE3 only which is probably the reason.

 

I have seen other posts that this cpu supports SSE3, but for some reason its not listed for me on my install with the 10.4.6 goatsecx DVD,

which is the only version ive ever gotten to install on any machine.

 

Do they make two versions of this cpu with and without SSE3 support? could this be a bios setting somewhere? would the install DVD im using just

had that part ripped out for some reason?

 

Ive used the jas intel 10.4.8 update to get my system up to current, but from what ive researched on here and the wiki, I should have a system that

works "out-of-the-box" in which almost nothing has, onboard video, etc. and to top it off i cant even boot the 10.4.8 install DVD, it keeps giving a

kernel panic.

 

I just board all this hardware after much research on the HCL about what will and willnot work well with OSX, and can say im pretty disappointed

that the reports on the HCL dont seem to be working for me.

 

On a side note, I couldnt find a page to get the "intel extreme 2 graphics" to work so i upgraded to an ati radeon x1600 pro card. used neo's installer

to get the res/QE/CI to work, but now the dashboard stopped working, is just empty, when i try to add widgets, the dissapear after a couple seconds on the

dashboard. and also programs are just crashing all the time like adium when i try to change the settings, yahoo messenger for mac when it trys to launch flashes

and then dissapears and more that i cant think of off the top of my head. I could uninstall the neo patch, but then id be stuck at 1024x768 which sucks.

 

Any help or pages you can refer me to would be great.

 

Thanks for any and all help.

 

Nick

[Colonel]

You're probably using an SSE2 kernel. That's why you're only seeing SSE2.

[C0mputerNick]

You're probably using an SSE2 kernel. That's why you're only seeing SSE2.

 

Is there a program for OSX that will tell me if my cpu supports SSE3 even if i am running an SSE2 kernel?

If my cpu really does support SSE3, why would you think the 10.4.8 install DVDs panic at boot?

 

thanks for the info.

[Wisam]

In Windows you can use a program called CPUz

I don't know any program on Mac with the same functionality.

I have Pentium D 2.8Ghz dual core and it worked on Jas DVD 10.4.8 both on Mifki and Semthex kernel. I bought it recently. But Intel supports SSE3 since may be 2 years ago. The only thing annoying about Pentium D is that Parallels tells me that my processor does not support VTx (Intel Virtualization Technology) so I get a performance hit.

[zoomie]

If I recall correctly, the Pentium D's do support VT in the 900 series...but only in the ones that end with zero in the model number, no VT support if the number ends with a five. For example, the Pentium D 940 supports VT while the Pentium D 945 does not support VT.

 

UPDATE: Sorry, this was off topic. I got carried away.

Edited January 10, 2007 by zoomie

[Synaesthesia]

Your CPU supports SSE-3 definitely, so try to get a version that takes advantage of that. I think the kernel of your version has been specially modified to work on SSE-2 cpus only, although your CPU has SSE-2 so I don't understand, it should work, just slower, right?