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OSX doesnt display my CPU as SSE3, only SSE2, why?


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I finally got my OSX installed, went through 30 or so installs back and forth to finally get the best working one with everything being supported.

 

So I have a Dell Optiplex GX270, it has a P4 3.2GHz cpu with 1gig of RAM. Now I have an identical machine that I have WindowsXP loaded on there and CPUz shows this cpu as being a SSE3 enabled CPU.

 

Any iteration of OSX I install, 10.4.8, 10.4.9, or 10.4.10, the Profiler never shows SSE3, only SSE2. If I try to use the 8.10.1 kernel, it panics, so currently Im using the 8.9.1 kernel.

 

Is there something I missed in getting this sucker to handle SSE3 kernel or is it truly not capable of it and just sit on the 8.9.1 kernel without SSE3 and live with it?

 

Dixit

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