AMD XP SSE Patch Incompatibility?

[NDC]

The SysMark problem
The Athlon XP 1800+ had one disadvantage going into SysMark 2001 testing: Windows Media Encoder, which is one of the applications used in SysMark 2001's Internet-content-creation suite, will not recognize the Athlon XP 1800+'s SSE instruction set. AMD provides a patch to fix this problem, but it's not endorsed by BAPCo because the patch was not issued by the original software vendor (Microsoft). Therefore, the results using the patch discussed above cannot be included in our official results.


Read more here (http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/0-8079207-8-8133100-3.html)

[otheos]

Hehe, what did you expect? Bapco is an intel company :) However, the fact that all BAPco tests are carried away with the P4 using the SSE/SSE2 but the XP is not, is omitted in all review sites. Talking about comparing apples with oranges.