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AMD Athlon 64 FX-51
New Frontiers

(Review by MS, September 23, 2003)

Test Configuration

A brief foreword with respect to the I/O configurations used: The test system provided by AMD featured two Western Digital Raptor 10k drives. Those drives are bridge solutions and as such, there is not much point in using them on a native SATA controller as implemented e.g. in Intel's ICH5(-R). Instead, we were using a pair of Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 native SATA drives on the Canterwood / Springdale platform, which we believe, provide the same level of performance in a RAID-0 configuration. The only benchmark amongst those used in this review, where this would matter anyway is Business Winstone 2002 and it is a judgement call of weighing best performance / platform against conformity in the benchmarks.

Athlon 64 FX-51 System AMD Athlon 64 FX-51, 2.2GHz ASUS SK8N 2 x 512 MB Mushkin Registered ECC DDR400 Memory Latencies: CL-2, tRCD-3 tRP-2 2 x 512 MB Legacy Registered ECC DDR400 Memory Latencies: CL-2.5, tRCD-3 tRP-3 2 x Western Digital Raptor 10k RAID Controller: On board Promise PDC20378 Stripe Size 16k Sony DVD-R	Pentium 4 System Intel Pentium4 (Northwood) 3.0 GHz, 3.2 GHz (800 MHz bus) ASUS P4P800 (Springdale), ABIT IC7 Max3 (Canterwood)* Intel Pentium4 (Northwood) 3.06 GHz, (533 MHz bus) ASUS P4G8X (Granite Bay) 2 x 512 MB Mushkin PC3200 Level2 DDR Memory Latencies: CL-2, tRCD-2 tRP-2 2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (80GB) RAID Controller: ICH5-R SATA Stripe Size 16k Pioneer 12 x DVD	Athlon XP3200+ System AMD Athlon XP3200+ ASUS A7N8X Deluxe ASUS A7N8X-X 2 x 512 MB Mushkin PC3200 Level2 DDR Memory Latencies: CL-2, tRCD-2 tRP-2 2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 RAID Controller: On board SiliconImage S3112AR Stripe Size 16k Sony DVD-R
Graphics Adapters ATI RADEON 9800 Pro (128 MB) ATI Catalyst 3.7 ATI FireGL X1 FireGL drivers 78841 nVidia GeForce FX5900 Ultra nVidia 64-bit display drivers 5.0.3.0
Operating System WindowsXP Professional Corp Ed. Service Pack 1a Microsoft Moviemaker2 Microsoft Patch: 312125 All necessary chipset drivers including Intel Application Accelerator for SATA RAID -------------------- Windows XP 64-bit Edition build 3790.dnsrv.030707-1810 Service Pack 1 v.1033

Because of the lack of a parallel port, several applications would not run on the ABIT IC7 Max3, otherwise, the results were indistinguishable from those obtained with the ASUS P4P800 (within the margins of noise).

Benchmarking Software

Synthetic Tests
- SiSoftSandra Max
- Cachemem
Application Benchmarks
- Content Creation Winstone2003
- Business Winstone2002
Raytracing
- 3DSMax 5.0
- Cinebench
- AliasWavefront Maya5.0
- Electric Image Amorphium3.1
- Caligari Truespace5.1

Video Encoding
- Flask 6.0 with DivX 5.01
Gaming Benchmarks
- 3DMark2001SE 3.30
- 3DMark2003 3.20
- Aquamark3
- Comanche4
- GunMetal
- UnrealTournament2003 Retail Edition
- X2-The Threat
CAD Applications
- SPEC ViewPerf 7.0
- SPECapc for Maya5.0
- SPECapc for 3DSMax

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