Back To Page 2 Installation and Configuration Installing the Digital TripleHead2Go should be a simple procedure. Turn off your computer, connect the Digital TripleHead2Go to your video card, connect your monitors to the TripleHead2Go, connect the USB cable, turn the computer on, and install the software from the CD. Unfortunately I had all sorts of problems […]
Back To Page 1 Product Overview and Packaging Considering the hardware interface and capabilities of the Analogue TripleHead2Go, it was really an odd hybrid of capabilities designed for LCDs (60 Hz refresh rate, triple 5:4 1280×1024 resolution) and CRTs (VGA connections, lower resolutions that use a 4:3 aspect ratio instead of 5:4). The Digital […]
by Joe Keefe Introduction In the spring of 2006 Matrox Graphics launched the TripleHead2Go, putting the somewhat esoteric graphics company back on the radar for many simulation enthusiasts. SimHQ published an extensive review of the TripleHead2Go at that time, and it is recommended that you read that review in full if you are unfamiliar with the product. Today […]
Back To Page 6 Intel® Core™2 Extreme Quad-Core Microprocessor Conclusions Intel’s Core 2 Extreme QX9650’s scores were something of a mixed bag in our testing. Certain titles, such as Wolves of the Pacific and World in Conflict, were clean sweeps, with the new processor’s larger caches and design enhancements enabling higher performance under all tested settings. […]
Back To Page 5 Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 (GRAW2) was tested via repeated run-throughs of the middle portion of the title’s first mission. GRAW2 sees a fairly significant performance lead for Intel’s new processor at the lowest setting, which outscored the previous generation quad core by roughly 15% and the dual core by almost […]
Back To Page 4 GTR2 was tested with a custom recording of a crowded grand prix track. The title’s configuration tool was used to enable its DX9 profile. Intel’s new CPU outdistances the older processors in low test settings, though by the highest settings the three scores were within a few percentage points of each […]
Back To Page 3 Test Results – Real World Moving onto real world applications, Microsoft’s FSX Acceleration, the first retail expansion to FSX, was just released last week. FSX’s performance has proven to be extremely CPU-bound, so let’s see if Acceleration changes the situation. The QX9650 shows a fairly substantial performance lead against the two […]
Back To Page 2 Test Results – Synthetic PCMark05, like all of Futuremark’s benchmark suites, is made up of a series of tests designed to stress specific subsystems, such as drive, processor, or memory performance. SimHQ decided to use just CPU and memory among the individual test suites, the latter because some of the […]
Back To Page 1 Test System Details All testing was conducted on a clean install of Windows XP Professional x86. The test system used the following components: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 ASUS Maximus Formula X38 chipset motherboard 2GB OCZ DDR2 1066 memory XFX […]
by John Reynolds Introduction Intel regained desktop performance dominance in July of last year with the release of their Conroe-based Core 2 Duo processors, firmly wresting the top position away from AMD’s Athlon 64s that had so thoroughly trounced the later Pentium 4s. In the following months, Intel increased the pressure on their competitor by […]
Back To Page 5 Test Results – Simulation Titles (continued) Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 (GRAW2), another new addition to SimHQ’s benchmark suite, was tested via repeated run-throughs of the middle portion of the title’s first mission. All in-game options were configured to high settings and edge smoothing enabled. Windows XP Pro Windows Vista […]
Back To Page 4 Test Results – Simulation Titles (continued) GTR2 was tested with a custom recording of a crowded grand prix track. The title’s configuration tool was used to enable its DX9 profile and to set anti-aliasing at Level 3. Interestingly enough, GTR2 refused to run on Vista once the v1.1 patch had […]
