by Guest Writer Jim “Twitch” Tittle Tune Ups & Utilities Are the freeware and shareware utilities any good? There are tons of them. Whether they are useful is up to the user. I’ve tried my share of utilities that were meant to do something that DOS or Windows didn’t. Some work and some may screw […]
Back to Page 2 Sierra Sierra had a first look showing of their new FPS, Men of Valor: Vietnam. The opening of the promotional video starts with a Huey door gunner working over an enemy village. The chopper has to crash land due to the ground fire. It then shows the survivors working their way […]
Back to Page 1 Ubi Soft (continued) Rainbow Six 3 has a new mission pack coming out. Athena Sword looks very nice as the graphics are being enhanced along with many new weapons, maps and modes of combat. There will be eight new maps for single and multiplayer. Some additional maps will be those from previous RB6 […]
SimHQ heads to California to see what’s new in simulations at the year’s biggest show. Recap – Friday, May 16th Darim Systems We stopped by Darim Systems to see what their hydraulic motion base for sims was all about. Darim makes the base and different configurations can be added for either flight or racing sims. You can […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
by Bubba “MasterFung” Wolford SimHQ: With war raging in the Middle East, many of us are thinking of our troops and fellow simmers involved in the war. We at SimHQ have several staff members involved in the conflict including our F/A-18EF back-seater “CHUNX”, Killer27 who is flying AH-64 Apaches and our favorite medic Tom Cofield who […]
