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Foxconn C51XEM2AA The Way nVidia was Meant to Be Built
(Review by MS, July 17, 2006)

Memory performance is one thing but how does it translate into gaming performance?

3DMark'05

DOOM3

Another CPU-centric benchmark, the C51 is faster but the difference is not that pronounced (~ 0.8% in favor of the C51).

In a nutshell, the C51 sets new performance standards. Again, it is necessary to stress the point that the ASUS board tested is a preproduction sample that may not be optimized, however, even compared to some more recent numbers on the ASUS M2N32 posted on Tech-Report, the C51 sample we had and, more importantly, which was running flawlessly at very aggressive settings (4:4:4:12:14 for CL:tRCD:tRP:tRAS:tRC / DDR2800) simply flies - and that without any compromise in stability.

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