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Ok, maybe not lunar lander but Lunar Flight is worth a look, or Garys Mod.

I believe that it's StarForce.

I notice that the NVIDIA 6800 has 220 million transistors. If they added a few million more transistors or sacrificed a few pipes for a RISC processor, the chip could do all the computation for the system. For people whose only demanding applications are graphics-intensive games, a CPU-on-GPU design might be a great idea. Admittedly, this solution does nothing for servers, but then it does not seem like servers are driving the mass-market PC technology at the moment.

The Scalable Link Iinterface is according to the article what two Voodoo cards used to communicate with. nVidia calls their port MIO. I think the correct acronym is Scan-line Interleave mode, so the article might have gotten the acronym wrong. But I remember fow 3dfx used sli to connect two Voodoos together. It's also all there in the article for anyone to read....nevermind.

Actually someone predicted this when 3Dfx was bought by nVidia. The thread is here. An interviewer with a clue asked nVidia about this in March 2002 but nVidia declined to comment. Hell the SLI possibility was even discussed on slashdot.

As to when this might be useful it is suggested in the article that you could buy two "regular" 6800GT cards and get way better performance than from a single 6800 Ultra Extreme card. I'm not saying it's cheap or even practical right now but it might be in the future when the cards are a bit cheaper and PCI-E-x16 is commonplace.

It just so happened that the XPs beat out the P4 at that same clockrating as well.

Have you been at Mr McBride's crack stash?
The P4 kicks the ass of the XP

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I can't do it justice in a simple reply, but you should try Lock On: Modern Combat, the successor to Flanker 2.0. As far as flight simulators, Flanker 2.0 (and moreso the 2.5 patch) was the Russian counterpart to Falcon 4.0, although lacking in immersiveness in a campaign.

LOMAC takes all that and builds on it an amazing and modern graphic engine, even further improved flight physics (beyond the already stock-Falcon quality physics in Flanker), and allows you to fly eight such highly detail aircraft--Su25, Su27, Su33, and 3 varieties of MiG-29; and the F15C and A10.

Coming soon will be a fully random and dynamic campaign, in addition to the pack-in campaign, similar to what Enemy Engaged: Commanche vs Hokum offered.

All told, not only has LOMAC attempted, it has succeeded beyond all hope.

Read SimHQ's article on LOMAC here. Find the official website here.

This may sound like an advertisement, but I've been an avid fan (and player) of Flanker 2.5 for some years and am foaming at the mouth with the release of LOMAC. It is that exciting.

Yeah, SimHQ is yet another site that recently did one of their "worst of 2003" lists as well.

As it's the end of the year, they did the best and the worst of 2002, like many other sites.

SimHQ Best/Worst of 2002

• [H]ard|OCP Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.80GHz : Intel is breaking out the big guns with their sights set directly on the competition. Will the 2.80GHz Northwood be enough for Intel to hold onto the performance crown?
• Anandtech Intel's Pentium 4 2.80GHz - Moving to the Head of the Class
• Tom's Hardware Speed Isn't Everything: P4/2800 Meets Athlon XP 2600+
• Ace's Hardware Faster Still: The 2.8 GHz Pentium 4
• FiringSquad Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz Review
• Hexus.net Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz Review
• SimHQ.com Intel "Northwood" 2.80GHz Pentium 4 Processor using .13 Technology
• Tech Report Intel's Pentium 4 2.8GHz processor - Two billion eight-hundred thousand hertz
• Hot Hardware The Pentium 4 2.8GHz Processor - Intel ups the anti once again
• xbit labs Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz against Athlon XP 2600+
• VR Zone Intel Fastest Pentium 4 2.8Ghz Review
• HardcoreWare A Thorn in AMD's Hide
• Lost Circuits Pentium4 2.8 GHz - Another Hit And Run

• [H]ard|OCP Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.80GHz : Intel is breaking out the big guns with their sights set directly on the competition. Will the 2.80GHz Northwood be enough for Intel to hold onto the performance crown?
• Anandtech Intel's Pentium 4 2.80GHz - Moving to the Head of the Class
• Tom's Hardware Speed Isn't Everything: P4/2800 Meets Athlon XP 2600+
• Ace's Hardware Faster Still: The 2.8 GHz Pentium 4
• FiringSquad Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz Review
• Hexus.net Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz Review
• SimHQ.com Intel "Northwood" 2.80GHz Pentium 4 Processor using .13 Technology
• Tech Report Intel's Pentium 4 2.8GHz processor - Two billion eight-hundred thousand hertz
• Hot Hardware The Pentium 4 2.8GHz Processor - Intel ups the anti once again
• xbit labs Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz against Athlon XP 2600+

Been spending too much time by the memepool, have we?

AMD Zone gives this summary at the end of its review: "No architectural or marketing changes with this release ... expect the previous CPUs to decline in price ... expect a bit higher performance and power consumption."

Anandtech agrees, saying the chip will not offer any significant extra performance over the 1800+, so early adopters need not sweat too much about being left behind. The site believes that AMD is currently the performance leader on desktop processors.

VIAHardware.com reckons users could be just as well off picking up the 1800+ at 1.53GHz and simply overclocking it to 1.6GHz. Users already owning a high-speed XP chip are better off waiting for the next upgrade on the platform to significantly increase performance.

Tech Report has some extensive benchmarking, putting the 1900+ slightly ahead of Intel's P4 2.0GHz in most of them, while SimHQ.com gets very excited about the new chip.

Amdmb.com also has a piece showing the expected five to six per cent performance increase.

As you probably know, Battle of Britain will be open sourced. On the forum, at http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/boards/bbs/Forum4 0/HTML/002621.html someone asked how difficult it is to convert from Direct3D to OpenGL and then to port to Linux. Surprisingly (at least, to me), the answer was:

BoB uses D3D Bit this is sperated out into the lib3d.Dll - so, in theroy, all you would have to do is re-write that to give OpenGL support. The bigger problem would be converting the UI to not use the M/S MFC.

I agree. DRI is just appearing, and OpenGL on DRI should privide excellent performance.

3dfx VooDoo 5 6000 just BLOWS AWAY nVidia GeForce 2 according to early sightings, while Celeron II benchmarks shows that Intels decision to deliberately keep the 66MHz bus to slow it down was very effective!

So much for X-Box performance! A 600MHz PIII derived processor (i.e. Celeron II) and nVidia are already looking outdated before the box is even introduced!

VooDoo 5 6000 vs GeForce 2

Celeron II benchmarks