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PostPosted: Fri May 04, 2012 5:57 pm    Post subject: Xeon 5080 has sse3 but cpuinfo doesn't show it Reply with quote

My Dell Precision 690 workstation has two SL968, which are the Xeon 5080 series CPU. That CPU supports sse3, however 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' does not show sse3. Any ideas?
oh... when I run ffmpeg to encode videos it actually says ssse3 available.
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PostPosted: Fri May 04, 2012 6:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

beacuse it is called pni (prescott new instrcutions).

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PostPosted: Fri May 04, 2012 6:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Veldrin wrote:
beacuse it is called pni (prescott new instrcutions).

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