diff --git a/public/VectorPairHMM/src/main/c++/pairhmm-1-base.cc b/public/VectorPairHMM/src/main/c++/pairhmm-1-base.cc
index 7ff219b88..2528fd152 100644
--- a/public/VectorPairHMM/src/main/c++/pairhmm-1-base.cc
+++ b/public/VectorPairHMM/src/main/c++/pairhmm-1-base.cc
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ using namespace std;
 
 int main(int argc, char** argv)
 {
+  cout << "AVX supported? " << _may_i_use_cpu_feature(_FEATURE_AVX) << endl ;
 #define BATCH_SIZE 10000
   if(argc < 2)
   {
diff --git a/public/VectorPairHMM/src/main/c++/utils.cc b/public/VectorPairHMM/src/main/c++/utils.cc
index 9f83cffa2..dd72fc512 100644
--- a/public/VectorPairHMM/src/main/c++/utils.cc
+++ b/public/VectorPairHMM/src/main/c++/utils.cc
@@ -46,14 +46,15 @@ float ContextBase<float>::matchToMatchProb[((MAX_QUAL + 1) * (MAX_QUAL + 2)) >>
 
 bool is_avx_supported()
 {
-  int ecx = 0, edx = 0, ebx = 0;
-  __asm__("cpuid"
-      : "=b" (ebx),
-      "=c" (ecx),
-      "=d" (edx)
-      : "a" (1)
-      );
-  return ((ecx >> 28)&1) == 1;
+  return  (_may_i_use_cpu_feature(_FEATURE_AVX) > 0);
+  //int ecx = 0, edx = 0, ebx = 0;
+  //__asm__("cpuid"
+      //: "=b" (ebx),
+      //"=c" (ecx),
+      //"=d" (edx)
+      //: "a" (1)
+      //);
+  //return ((ecx >> 28)&1) == 1;
 }
 
 bool is_sse41_supported()
diff --git a/public/sting-utils/src/main/resources/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/pairhmm/libVectorLoglessPairHMM.so b/public/sting-utils/src/main/resources/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/pairhmm/libVectorLoglessPairHMM.so
index 2620557f0..5091b2f49 100644
Binary files a/public/sting-utils/src/main/resources/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/pairhmm/libVectorLoglessPairHMM.so and b/public/sting-utils/src/main/resources/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/pairhmm/libVectorLoglessPairHMM.so differ