Athlon 64 FX-51 reviews deluge begins

The Hexers seem to have the UK's first webbed review of the brand spunking new Athon64 FX-51 over here.

While Tech Report says it has spent the past few weeks testing Hammer-based chips, including the Athlon 64 and "its new big brother, the mighty Athlon 64 FX-51".

For some unfathomable reason, Intel slipped them a Pentium 4 3.2GHz Extreme Edition processor at the last minute, so they benchmarked that, too. Have a gander over here.

AMD has added a "surprise momentum" to the launch, they reckon over at Lostcircuits - in the form of the "FX-51" edition, featuring, they say, the same dual channel memory controller found otherwise only in the Opteron series, clocked to 2.2 GHz and running a 400 MHz memory interface.

Are there differences between the "compatibility mode" and the 32-bit operations in "protected mode" on the 64-bit Win OS, they wonder? Are there any 64-bit apps? Their take is over here.

AMDZone puts the FX 51 and the 3200+ Athlon 64 models up against Opteron all on nForce 3 chipset boards over here.

Hard Tecs 4U takes a look at the Athlon 64 3200+ and Athlon 64 FX-51 for our German-speaking readers, hier.

For normal Volk, they point at a Googled translation into Englisch here.

Tech Channel chips in its couple of Groschens' worth over here.

While the Frenchies over at x86-secret have a fiddle with their sample ici. And AMDBoard kindly supplied the Googled attempt at a translation of that, over here.

Ace's Hardware has joined the merry throng here. They pumped an unlocked Athlon 2.2GHz up to 2.4GHz just for the hell of it, squeezing in a look at a 3.4GHz Pentium 4 EE, too. They even have chess benchmarks. Coo!

SimHQ seeks a mention, here.

Here's Tom's Hardware.

Here's Anand.

And Here's HardOCP putting an FX51 up against a P4EE.

That's probably enough to keep you going, we figure. µ