Forgotten Battles: A Reality Check Page 2
Back To Page 1 A Reality Check How well does this reflect what we know about what actually happened on the Eastern front? The first thing that must be remembered is that the aircraft used in daily front line service were rarely able to match the performance of test aircraft. This may have been partly […]
Forgotten Battles: A Reality Check
by Leon “Badboy” Smith Introduction Ilyushin’s IL-2 Sturmovik ground attack aircraft has been modeled in the first flight simulation dealing exclusively with the air war on the Eastern front during WWII. In this article I will provide a brief introduction to two fighters that saw extensive service in that theatre and discuss their performance in […]
VisionTek Xtasy 9800 PRO Page 3
Back to Page 2 Image Quality, Stability, and Compatibility Perhaps the most important statement I can write for this section is that the test system never once suffered from a CTD (crash to desktop), lock-up, or reboot while conducting the benchmarks for this review. This is noteworthy if you stop and consider that no […]
VisionTek Xtasy 9800 PRO Page 2
Back to Page 1 Test Setup and Benchmarking Software The system used for testing the Xtasy 9800 Pro was configured as shown below: Intel Pentium 4 2.4B GHz CPU ASUS P4T533-C motherboard (533 MHz FSB/AGP 4X) 512MB PC1066 RDRAM Xtasy Radeon 9800 Pro using Catalyst 3.4 drivers Windows XP Professional, SP1 The following software […]
VisionTek Xtasy 9800 PRO
by John Reynolds ATI announced their new chip this March and not too long thereafter various board vendors began shipping products based on it branded as Radeon 9800s. VisionTek is one such vendor. A company quite well known in the retail market for their graphics boards, VisionTek is now operating as a subsidiary of the Hartford […]
Intel 3.20GHz Pentium 4 on 800MHz FSB with Hyper-Threading
by Bubba “MasterFung” Wolford Intel: Increasing the Speed Limit Intel is announcing their newest (and fastest) CPU today. The 3.20GHz Pentium 4 is a 200MHz speed increase from the previous generation 3GHz CPU. There are no other changes to Intel’s latest besides the MHz increase. Introduction: Intel Pentium 4 3.20GHz Northwood at 800MHz FSB This new […]
Harpoon 4
by Mark “Boxer” Doran Introduction Harpoon4 may well boast the longest start to finish development of any game title developed for the PC by the time it finally reaches the market. If it reaches the market, that is. The game’s history is long and tortuous by this point. The latest twist came on April 23rd […]
A Legacy to Carry
by John “Spoons” Sponauer “Where do we get such men? They leave this ship and they do their job. Then they must find this speck lost somewhere on the sea. When they find it, they have to land on its pitching deck. Where do we get such men?” – Rear Admiral George Tarrant in “The […]
AMD Athlon XP 3200+ Review – Part 2
by Bubba “MasterFung” Wolford Pricing Considerations AMD has been long since a favorite of gamers who wanted a fast computer with great performance but unwilling to pay the premium for Intel based processors. Even during the early Pentium 4 days when AMD was clearly outperforming Intel, AMD parts were always cheaper than Intel’s comparable CPUs. […]
AMD Athlon XP 3200+ Review – Part 1 Page 2
Back to Page 1 Given everything equal, we would normally be bringing you benchmarks of the new AMD Athlon XP 3200+ on this page. Sadly, we ran into a time crunch after a couple of ill placed power surges that gave us the heebeegeebees. Long story short, our AMD Athlon 3200+ test system was […]
AMD Athlon XP 3200+ Review – Part 1
by Bubba “MasterFung” Wolford Introduction AMD is today attempting to leapfrog Intel in the processor wars by launching their new Athlon 3200+ chip which if your like most people and relate AMD’s model numbers and compare them directly to Intel’s processor speeds, would put AMD on top when compared to Intel’s 3.06GHz (533MHz FSB) or […]
Flight Simulation Performance Analyzed
by Scott “Blade124” Gentile Overview The purpose of this article is to assist the flight sim community in understanding the basics of how a computer runs a modern flight simulation. Hopefully, this will help take some of the mystery out of your next pc upgrade. We’ve all seen enough Quake and Unreal video card tests […]