Back To Page 2 Test Results – Real World Moving onto real world applications, Microsoft’s FSX Acceleration, the first retail expansion to FSX, was recently released and has continued to display very CPU-limited performance characteristics. An Airtrike Ultralight was flown over Rio de Janeiro on a clear afternoon at roughly 5k elevation using a recorded […]
Back To Page 1 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 hard drive, processor, or memory performance. SimHQ decided to use just the CPU suite and the total score. QX9650 QX9650+ QX9770 Total Score 9822 […]
by John Reynolds Introduction A week prior to Intel’s first 45nm processors actually becoming available on the market, the company was already sending out another Yorkfield quad-core part to reviewers. SimHQ reviewed Intel’s Core 2 Extreme QX9650 several weeks ago, a 3.0GHz processor that was tested on an X38-chipset motherboard, yet the new CPU wasn’t available […]
Back To Page 3 Insane Setting. Only the 2.93 GHz X6800 pulled out a double-digit frame rate in this category, though barely outperforming either of the other two processors. Maximizing all available options in FSX might be viable in, say, several years from now. Until then, Ultra High will remain the best that can be […]
Back To Page 2 High Setting. The frame rate continued to plummet steeply again for all three processors, though the new Intel CPUs maintained their significant leads over the Athlon 64. This category, however, did see the previous deltas between the two Core 2 processors narrow to almost identical scores. A significant jump in water […]
Back To Page 1 FSX Testing Results Medium Low Setting. Both of the Core 2 processors from Intel cracked the 3-digit mark, leaving the FX-62 trailing behind by a startling distance. The X6800, in fact, was basically 50% faster than the AMD part, with the E6700 coming in roughly 45% higher. This category creates rather […]
by John Reynolds Introduction With the release of Microsoft’s FSX, the latest in the PC’s longest-running entertainment software franchise, SimHQ decided to do some quick testing between Intel and AMD’s latest high-end desktop processors — and the fastest graphics board currently available to us — to see how this new flight simulation fared with a cutting-edge […]
Back To Page 5 Call of Duty 2 was tested with a custom demo from the Prisoners of War single-player map. The game was configured in its DX9 rendering mode with all texture options manually set at the highest setting of Extra. Since the 1.1 patch, Call of Duty 2 has included multi-processing support. The […]
Back To Page 4 rFactor was tested with a custom demo recorded on the Lienz “Festival of Speed” track. The DX9 shader profile was selected for all tests. rFactor displayed essentially no variance in its benchmark scores between the tested processors. And using settings more demanding of the installed graphics board sees a similar plateau […]
Back To Page 3 Game Benchmark Scores As a watershed title for multi-processing support, SimHQ enjoys making heavy use of Falcon 4.0: Allied Force for dual-core testing. The two mission tests that are used in this article can be found here and the simulation itself was patched with the 1.0.7 update. Because of the rather aged nature of […]
Back To Page 2 Synthetic Testing Windows Media Encoder 9 was used for SimHQ’s content creation test. The application is a free download from Microsoft and greatly benefits from systems capable of accelerating its multithreaded design. Falcon 4: Allied Force’s intro movie, a 91 MB AVI file, was converted into a WMV file with high […]
Back To Page 1 Test Systems Setup The following processors were used for this article’s testing: Core 2 Extreme QX6700 (2.66 GHz) Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2.93 GHz) Core 2 Duo E6700 (2.67 GHz) In addition, all three processors shared the following system components: Intel 975XBX2 motherboard 2 GB (2 x 1 GB) of […]
