Nevertheless if you want to test the stability of your machine run prime95 ( http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft ) for at least 8h (some like to run at least 24h).
T2300 should support sse3. You can gain a slight increase in computation speed switching from sse2 to sse3 app.
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon bts pni monitor est tm2 xtpr pdcm
That's the information in Wikipedia and intels datasheet, but /proc/cpuinfo just tells meCode: [Select]flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon bts pni monitor est tm2 xtpr pdcmI guess the "ss" should be sse3 or ssse3
nx is sse3.
I disagree. SSE3 was originally called Prescott New Instructions, and is shown as pni in that list (Windows Vista may also use the pni code). The nx code means an execution protection mechanism which allows marking memory regions for data only, not executable instructions. Early Prescott chips didn't have nx but obviously did have pni/SSE3, early AMD Athlon 64 chips had nx but not SSE3. Joe
Lysius, what tests did you run? small ffts, large ffts, blend?.
...EDIT:I'm running http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=417924453 now an my Desktop PC with the SSE2 and the SSE3 AP. I guess pulse.out is what would be send to the server. I have attached these for both apps (after 40 minutes of running). The SSE3-app doesn't seem to have found anything by now, the SSE2-app found 30 pulses already (almost immediately after start)....
The SSE3-App now has found something at DM 7023.I have attached the WU.
real 1475m25.372suser 1363m40.233ssys 86m3.655s
real 1429m15.220suser 1317m58.278ssys 86m18.336s