by Tom “WKLINK” Cofield Introduction New equipment for flight simulation gamers is at an all time drought. Most joystick designs are over 10 years old and while they have improved dramatically in some regards overall the designs put together in the last few years are essentially unchanged from designs made 15 years ago. Yes, the […]
Back to Page 3 Last is NASCAR Racing 2003 Season, tested using a crowded Daytona track and a camera view set inside of Earnhardt’s cockpit. Graphics settings were also configured to medium options and shadows disabled. At the two lower resolutions, the FX-55 shows more improvement over the 4000+ than the latter does over the […]
Back to Page 2 IL-2: Sturmovik Forgotten Battles – Aces Expansion Pack was tested in OpenGL and with all video options set to medium (normal for Objects detail) using the Black Death track. For each processor change, IL-2 shows roughly a 5% performance gain for the tested resolutions, with AMD’s latest CPUs hitting a 3-digit […]
Back to Page 1 Test System Setup AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 4000+, and FX-55 processors MSI K8N Neo2 motherboard (nForce 5.10) 1 GB (2 x 512 MB) Corsair XMS PC3200 DDR RAM VisionTek 9800 Pro 128 MB (Catalyst 4.9 drivers) Adaptec 19160 SCSI controller 36 GB Seagate Cheetah 15,000 RPM HD (NTFS) Windows XP […]
by John Reynolds Introduction AMD is announcing today two new processors to their Athlon 64 series of CPUs, the Athlon 64 4000+ and the Athlon 64 FX-55. Both processors are 939-pin, micro-PGA parts and are manufactured at AMD’s Dresden, Germany, fabrication plant using a 130nm SOI process. The FX-55, with its 2.6 GHz clock speed, […]
Back to Page 4 Overclocking Gainward claims their Golden Sample products will outperform cards from other AIBs that adhere to reference clock speeds, yet overclocking the review board sample wasn’t a practical option. Rather than use the CoolBits registry tweak to enable overclocking via the driver control panel, Gainward’s EXPERTool utility was instead used, […]
Back to Page 3 Nascar Racing 2003 Season is tested using a crowded Daytona replay, with the camera set inside Earnhardt’s cockpit. All graphical options are set to their highest level and sound disabled. As in previous testing, Nascar’s frame rate continues to be largely bottlenecked by the CPU. Fortunately for fans, the game remains […]
Back to Page 2 Falcon 4 testing was changed for this review as SimHQ has decided to use the FreeFalcon 3 upgrade rather than SuperPAK 4. Our in-house test still consists of a low level, air-to-ground flight consisting of two Falcons using Mk20s and Mavericks. Falcon 4’s performance continues to be completely independent from the graphics sub-system, though […]
Back to Page 1 Benchmark Scores Because the Gainward Ultra/2100 is not a high-end board and has only 128 MB of RAM, the combined setting of 4x AA and 8x AF was not used during testing in this review. Lock On: Modern Air Combat is benchmarked using the MiG-29 Intercept demo. While SimHQ tries to […]
by John Reynolds Introduction Earlier this summer SimHQ examined the GeForce 6800 GT from NVIDIA. Today we’ll be taking a look atGainward’s GeForce Ultra/2100 product, a graphics board based on the vanilla 6800 chip, and seeing how well it fares with the latest simulation gaming software. The Ultra/2100 board is a Gainward “Golden Sample” product, which the company […]
“Congo” Before 800×600 “Congo” After 800×600 1600×1200 1600×1200 We received these new screenshots today showing the effects of 64-bit processing on the upcoming tactical shooter Shadow Ops: Red Mercury. Below are excerpts from today’s press announcement. Shadow Ops: Red Mercury will be available for PC on September 21st. ATARI DEVELOPS SHADOW OPS: RED MERCURY FOR AMD 64-BIT PROCESSORS […]
Back to Page 3 Final Opinions and Suggestions Ok, so I think you have figured out by now that I really like the TrackIR 3-Pro. That is pretty obvious to all. I also have read that the TrackIR3 is significantly better than the TrackIR1. As I said, I will take their word for it. […]
