[Eric Lagman]

Does anyone know if there are any benefits of using these new 45nm intel chips that have SSE 4.1 instructions on them with maxwell. From what I am reading online I have found comments saying applications written to take advantage of this type of processor instruction can see up to a 30% increase in performance compared to an equally clocked processor with older instructions.

I have searched the forum and benchwell and all I can find is that maxwell will work with these new instructions, but I cant seem to find anywhere if it benefits from it.

Reason I am asking is I am putting together a list to build my own machine and am torn between the q6600 or the newer replacemnt for it the q9450 which has these new SSE 4.1 instruction. The q6660 is supposed to drop to around $220.00 april 20th and I have read these can be overclocked to 3.4-3.6ghz The q9450 can only overclock to about the same from what I have reading and it cost around $359.00 So unless the new instruction set makes a difference with maxwell I see no reason to pay more for a chip that will overclock to the same as an older version.

One final question. Is anyone here that is using a q6600 able to get it up to 3.6ghz overclock on air having maxwell run for days at a time nonstop? Someone has it that high on benchwell, but Im not sure if they are using watercooling to get it stable at that high of an overclock.