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Why are Athlon processors not supported with the Special Edition?

April 26, 2017athlon edition processors special supported

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Why are Athlon processors not supported with the Special Edition?

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Only the newer instructions of the Athlon and Pentium 4 processors are missing. You can still optimize for 3DNow and SSE by setting the target to K6-2 or Pentium III. There is only a small performance loss by having these extra optimizations removed.