fangoria Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Hey. My setup currently is based on a pentium 4 1.6ghz Norwood @2.3ghz overclocked. I'm wondering how significantly my hackintosh would benefit in performance if I upgrade to a Prescott core Pentium with SSE3 support. How much performance improvement would I get from it? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50686-should-i-upgrade-to-a-sse3-cpu/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danyel Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Hi Fangoria: OSx86 PC's without SSE3 still run great. The main limitations would be running certain applications that require (like iTunes 7) and Rosetta Emulation is supposed to be better with SSE3. I'm running Dell Inspiron 1300 (with Celeron M - No SSE3). Works great with CI/QE enabled with GMA 900 chipset. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50686-should-i-upgrade-to-a-sse3-cpu/#findComment-362993 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyhighmac Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 If you plan to upgrade to Leopard when its hacked, you are probably going to hit a performance slowdown without SSE3, emulation is never as good as the real thing. All current mac's have SSE3, so its natural that Apple will develop for that, and not SSE2. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50686-should-i-upgrade-to-a-sse3-cpu/#findComment-363021 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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