Quote Originally Posted by justapost View Post
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Nice 9500 for 200€, i'll order one now.
Quote Originally Posted by JumpingJack View Post
SSE4a consists of 4 instructions, none of the 4 are related to Intel's SSE4 instruction set. I have not seen any data showing any information on SSE4a compiled software vs non-SSE4a compiled software.... but a resonable assumption is that it does not provide a huge improvement otherwise AMD would have advertised it as a significant selling point.
Maybe a newer version of tmpegenc or divx will have sse4a support. I don't expect much. I'm just curious.
Quote Originally Posted by Sagart View Post

Why is the 9700 and 9900 so much better when the frequences are just a bit higher? (It seems more effective)
Looks like beside they used 7% for a 100MHz clock increase they expect a 10% higher performance with the new stepping.
Quote Originally Posted by KTE View Post
I have both a new AM2+ and an old AM2 board to check this out very soon.
My board got delayed, but i will order a cpu now. I already downloaded win2008rc0 (32 and 64 bit) for comparison and installed it on a c2d notebook (hp 6820s). My primary goal is to compare the new virtual machine support and compare it to xen but as a sidefeffect i'll get a comparison of os-dependent speed improvements.
Hope i'll find the time to bench all the different configurations i have in mind.
I plan to run the whole thing on am2 and am2+ again, to get an impression how the new virtualisation functions on phenoms work.