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The testing platforms for the Athlon 64 FX-51 processor are a bit different than our previous processor reviews. The AMD-supplied test bed for the Athlon 64 FX-51 processor comprised of the following:
| CPU | 1 x Athlon 64 FX-51 Processor @ 2.2 GHz |
| Motherboards | Asus SK8N nForce3 Pro-150 |
| Chipset Drivers | NVIDIA Platform 2.65 |
| Memory | 2 x 512MB Legacy Registered DDR400 DDR DRAM |
| Hard Drive | 2x SATA WD Raptor Drives @ RAID 0 |
| Video Card | NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra |
| Video Drivers | Detonator 51.75 |
| Operating System | Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 |
I did run the benchmarks on this setup directly, but decided to make a slight change in hard drive for comparison to the other platforms I was testing. I ran the tests on the P4 and Athlon XP setup with a Western Digital 8MB cache IDE hard drive, and also on the Athlon 64 FX-51 platform. You will see both results reported in our graphs, but keep in mind the SATA RAID configuration give inflates that setup’s scores.
The IDE configurations are included below:
| CPU | 1 x Athlon 64 FX-51 Processor @ 2.2 GHz |
| Motherboards | Asus SK8N nForce3 Pro-150 |
| Chipset Drivers | NVIDIA Platform 2.65 |
| Memory | 2 x 512MB Legacy Registered DDR400 DDR DRAM |
| Hard Drive | 80 GB 7200 RPM IBM EIDE |
| Video Card | NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra |
| Video Drivers | Detonator 51.75 |
| Operating System | Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 |
| CPU | 1 x Intel P4 3.2 GHz |
| Motherboards | Chaintech 9CJS 875 Canterwood |
| Chipset Drivers | Intel INF 1003 |
| Memory | 2 x 512MB Corsair Micro DDR DRAM |
| Hard Drive | 80 GB 7200 RPM IBM EIDE |
| Video Card | NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra |
| Video Drivers | Detonator 51.75 |
| Operating System | Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 |
| CPU | 1 x Athlon XP 3200+ GHz @ 2.2 GHz |
| Motherboards | Abit NF7-S nForce2 Ultra 400 |
| Chipset Drivers | NVIDIA Platform 2.65 |
| Memory | 2 x 512MB Corsair Micro DDR DRAM |
| Hard Drive | 80 GB 7200 RPM IBM EIDE |
| Video Card | NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra |
| Video Drivers | Detonator 51.75 |
| Operating System | Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 |
