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To: fyodor_ who wrote (45259)	6/26/2001 4:41:16 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Fyo, Re: Are they serious? Why on earth would the motherboard need to know that the processor can do SSE? That's because AMD disabled SSE per default in the Athlon 4s and Athlon MPs shipping right now (so you could ask AMD if they are serious...). The BIOS enables SSE by setting a register accordingly. There's also an unofficial tool that does the job. C't discovered this issue first, BTW, and they wrote the software. I don't know if AMD intends to deactivate SSE forever, however, someone at JC's that bought an Athlon MP a few days ago, still had it disabled. BTW, I wouldn't be too harsh with Overclockers.Com. I think Ed does a very good job with the site. He isn't an expert on benchmarking, so you have forgive him so of his testing methods. However, I think he's almost always dead on with his editorials. Okay, forget the one about AMD compatibility but even there he had a point (however, it's IMO not AMD's fault but VIA's). And of course, he knows everything about overclocking. ;-) Andreas