RETRO UNBOXING AMD Athlon 64 FX-51 Sledgehammer Processor Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips

[str1ka1]

that sticker is epic

[romefox]

I can not express my elation in regard's to this video, the memories are all coming back, us PC gamers were drooling over this beast!

[romefox]

That is so awesome, it is an elite PC Legend, the legacy of pwnage!

[RetroGamerr1991]

Where do you get this stuff lol!

[PauliusSmile]

Giveaway?

[RafaelvonBannisseht]

now sir, use that cpu cooler on an amd fx8150 and see if it is up to todays standards

[unacomn]

That CPU would actually be an upgrade for me. Can I have it ? :D

[decimat777]

you people? what do you mean you people????!!!!!!

[rich65jord]

I almost for got, I think it was the beginning or near the beginning of when Intel was starting to use Hyper Threading technology on their processors because it has it.

[rich65jord]

I love the Retro unboxing. I'd like to see more and a retro PC build. I'm actually running a Pentium 4 3.2ghz (board came with a P4 2.4) processor in socket 478 on an ABIT-IC7 overclockable gaming mother board from 2004 with 800mhz frontside bus with 4GB dual channel DDR RAM in 4 DIMM slots and I'm running WIN7 Ultimate for my operating system. Graphics card is AGP HIS Radeon 4670 1GB GDDR3 with 5 more PCI slots. I wish that the processor supported a 64bit operating system.

[kriket67]

10 years later... So today were going to do a retro unboxing. its going to be the Phenom x4 black edition 3.2 as you can see the box is almost brown from all the dust on it. look i can write my name in it. then people are gonna be like. OMG who still has a trashy processor like that. so slow...

[anzonix]

Do you do these anymore?

[ThePakenshet]

is it just me or there was a plane flying?

[TypeR891]

When are you gonna do retro benchmarking?????!



[TheDeigratia]

That's just cool

[ElectricMuffinDude]

I whould choose this one over the fx-8150 :P

[xXMrCreeperFaceXx]

hmmm, i still run an athlon.... xp...

[sokrutu]

watchin this in 2011 times... i wish AMD would come up with something cool, so intel has more competition :(

[Tosserke]

my pc is a dinosaur then? my pc still rules

[nexas16]

I`m still running AMD 64 3000+

[thestig747]

Will it play crisis 2 at max settings?

[ImAKillZoneFan]

@thestig747 no...killed it

[0oDarkLordRevano0]

Better than the newer FX CPUs. lol.

[vimrod1]

LOL! the copper alone would be worth more now than what the cpu would have sold for new in it's day! Nice unboxing, would like to see more retro unboxings in the future.....

[MrNeo369]

what year was this released?

[udontseemebutiseeyou]

hey the fx processors are out!

[ItalyNerf]

Lol, I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+. Old as shit but works really good. :)

[PauliusSmile]

@ItalyNerf

The same just oc'ed to 2.6ghz stable :)

[ItalyNerf]

@PauliusSmile mine is oc'ed to 3.6ghz stable :)

[PauliusSmile]

@ItalyNerf

Whats the voltage?

FSB?

Clock ratio? :D

[QuabProductions]

Socket 754.... that brings back memories..... when i built my first machine with a 1.6 Ghz Sempron....

[psychoclown420]

@QuabProductions wasn't this a socket 940 cpu only? i have an old 754 pc with a 3000+ :D

[tavi921]

your mino hd sux

[mrsquishyboots]

i had a dell laptop with a athlon 64 fx. i think it was 1ghz or 1,2 dont remember. the nvidia card in it had known overheating flaws. my computer failed after 3 months. dell, nvidia told me to have best buy replace it. went to best buy to have it replaced, store manager looked at my receipt then deleted my purchase from the computer in front of him and asked me to leave.... never been back to BB , wont buy dell or nvidia

[halo56822]

i have pentium 2 350 mhz. beat that i7.

[waseem1173]

LOL silly linus. heat pipes existed waaaaay before you were even born

[xENEMYxx]

im still using an athlon 64 :P

[jnr1989]

I just unboxed my i7 960 and the fan cooler is so big that i never seen a fan that big for a cpu! lol

[PenguinRecordings]

The slight blur because of the zoom(or lack thereof) made the video a bit of a pain to my eyes in fullscreen mode...

[xsoulkidx]

I just got a tower that has a AMD Athlon 64. sloooww haha

[sobchuk]

Kind of fitting that I watched this on my FX-60 rig :) They were champions in their day. Nice to see the fancy old school box. By the time I picked up my FX-60 and Athlon X2s in late 2005 early 2006 they were already in the standard cardboard box like we see them now.

[iNf3rNuSdI4bLuS1]

well, now we know why recycling was invented...

[TheWiseTorsk]

Linus should do an entire retro pc build :D

[fennectech]

i have that socket!!!

[HellPunisher00]

God, that processor must've felt like rip van winkel when it was unboxed o,o

One more thing: Linus, how much did you spend on that processor today? I'm curious to see how much that one sold for.

[cal920c]

Can you put that cooler on a modern AMD chip and see if it works?

[Kevinkoch2443]

this was when amd was the king! Amd athlon cpu´s were amazing! And the fx series were overkill!

[Vaclover1]

Socket AM2 has 940 pins not AM3 which has 941 pins;

[virus464]

isnt that 939 pins?

[ScopeWR]

Wow, before my AMD Phantom X4 950 I had this processor.. :)

[skolnieks1993]

@ScopeWR lol phantom, it is phenom not phantom

[q1joe]

@ScopeWR When did they start making a phantom processor

[sciman001]

HOLEY! TATS SWEET. SORTA> :D:D:D

[billdcat4]

wow, i want to see more Retro unboxings

[Zraupp10]

AMD FX is also Bulldozer lolz

[pero1000000000]

LOL i went to school for first time in 2003

[Twych22]

That was air contained from prehistoric times... wonder what it smell'd like... new car smell maybe?

[vasumamayo]

i have the amd bible pasted on the wall of my room XD

[supersteveg2a]

i dare you to lick the bottom of that CPU

[shaper87]

You should hit ur camera guy. The focus is barely never good!

I say smack him alittle so he gets it right for a change..

[TazarZero]

What do you mean 'You People'?  lol ;)

[bowzer11121]

I had an orgasm when i got this

[sownindishonor15]

the old athlons were awesome. the Athlon x2, x4 etc sucked. The Athlon II are awesome again. :) have an x3, more than I need

[JackBandicootsBunker]

@sownindishonor15 Oh yeah! Athlon II X2 250 here. Really good chip for what it's worth.

[SnapSaviorEtc]

I'm still using an old 05' Athlon64 3500+ Venice, hehehe.

[DAGSTERZ26]

I still have my original Athlon 64 FX-51. With the SK8N motherboard. ECC memory. It is in my garage powering my MAME arcade. It is still amazing.  I Now am using QX9650

[alt572]

sell the copper!

[Adrian802]

How come it's not on the cpu list online?

[Adrian802]

AthlonFX 53 is also a socket 940 processor

[nicks99322]

are you dumpster diving or what?

[Gameboykd]

that processor must have went " FREEDOOOMMMM!!!"

[TheMaristBoy]

@Gameboykd "Freedom! now to take revenge on pentium 4 heheheh......" O.o

[berindea]

Will you give me an i7 if I give you my old-ass Athlon?

[onionofdeath]

I had a shuttle XPC that used heat pipes back in 2003, before this CPU was released

[onionofdeath]

@onionofdeath I meant at the same time this CPU was released lol

[monkeymangonewild]

i have a computer with it it wont overclock haaa its like 1.8 GHz

[rayandrestamarasaez]

Clasico :D

[n00bcakey]

not sure how it compares to the ridiculous pentium 2 dos pc at the workplace.

[swedishgamer]

you should do a give away on that

[ArcticFox1095]

Wow! It's even older than my current Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego! But that's okay. My Athlon 64 FX-62 Windsor smokes that wimpy processor. xP

[shikengriuber]

Wow Athlon FX. It was the best non server desktop CPU you could get. Mmmm I wanted to buy one but price was too high.

[jimmyallman]

why the fu*K did i watch this to see the quality of a camera, you dont even hold it still enough to focus.

[2000pcman]

@jimmyallman The Flip Mino HD dosen't even have autofocus

[noko3000]

i want you to make a prank called to amd for the warranty

[dslrocks10]

how is this retro? its 7 years old..

[no1Reality]

@dslrocks10 7 years old !LOL  its TO MUCH for Science

[Antimanele104]

I'm going to shoot the monitor on the first ad that google is stucking on my throat.

[Pawcu4ever]

i dont know why but everytime he does a retro unboxing i get nostalgic all of a sudden.. probably remembering about my old pc i used to have untill i got my new beast :p

i remember when i had my old pc with processors like that i had one of the best pc's... lol nice unboxing anyway

[onishchuk4]

That FX-51 was a beast before multi-core procs hit.

[FlipidusX]

this is nice, i have a am2 motherboard here, but i cant test ist, i dont like to buy a cpu because i dont know if the motherboard work :)

tell me if you make a unboxing of a sealed amd k5, k6 or k6-2 :)

[Matrixtechno]

Retro ... this in younger than my actual PC. Good old P4 2.8 ghz with an AGP ATI X800XT 256meg and 2 gb of DDR1 Dual Channel. I still run thru almost all the game that are 1 years old now ... but seriously, even if it's well built and overclocked to the limit possible, this is getting too old now.

Thinking about that ... linus, don't you have some giveaway for people like me that use their stuff all the way up to the grave ? lolll

[worlddomin623]

He shouldn't have unboxed this. It would be so cool in the future to sell something like that, still in the box.

[Ltb0b]

I'lll laugh if you can use this heatsink can over clock a proccesor to 4ghz

[JOCKATEO]

if you want to find a rare chip these days is the winchip

[larceniii]

lol Proooocessor

[jamerican347]

I found one of these with a bunch of old electronics. I did research and found out it is a Socket 940. I was excited because my PC is from 2006 but my PC has a AM2 slot (which is 940 pins but not the same as the 940 socket. I was so ANNOYED!!!

[bmxhector]

lol the heatsing loooks like it do a better job then the stock amd heatsinks lol..if the base was smoother

[nelizmastr]

*cough* my Athlon II X2 245 doesnt have heatpipes either... dumbass...

[WTCHME]

@nelizmastr Neither does my Athlon II X4 635.

[dharkbizkit]

Man, that CPU was worth a furtune back in the days.. and it just layed somewhere to "rot" instead of selling it cheap? thats what i call wasting :D

[ASAWProductions]

7:13 it is AMD, what did you expect?

[EddieLolz3r]

@ASAWProductions

Obvious intel fanboy right here

[dharkbizkit]

@ASAWProductions As if AMD are cheap ass hardwarejunk CPU's... -.-

[Purepromedia]

@ASAWProductions Dude, AMD/ATI rocks, wtf are you talking about? No I'm not a fanboy, Rocking a 980x here, and a X2 unlocked for my daily pc.

[rick62008]

@LinusTechTips Please keep these retro unboxings coming !

Great video.

[SRMkay]

Pssh. 720p HD my foot. Although it seems that Flip cameras have become slightly less crap than they originally were.

[radicalgarbage02]

Not retro enough. I wanna see you open something from Cyrix or something LOL

[124Z312]

i got that sticker on my computer

[TheGeek1028]

..I actually need a better CPU for my S939 motherboard, can I have this? xD

[vDubrivation]

MOAR RETRO

[foxwright]

This processed is still in my comp and I get 3.0 gigz out of it so FU

[weggles]

The copper is probably worth more than the processor by now.

[MechaNintendoMast]

I wish I could find old computer stuff like that!!!

[unistenje]

you ruend a old timer with your scalper

[unistenje]

i like the lamp on the colum on witch you are unboxing

[Nopiw]

what a waste

You should have left it sealed

[HelloImQuin]

The MinoHD doesn't focus that good ..

[AlpineLV]

cant see a damm thing

[berindea]

Would you give me a 4000$ PC if i give you my AMD Athlon 64 3000+?xD

[milanvdv]

You should disassemble the heatsinkand sell the copper. Then you cangat a lot off money from it

GRTZ

[OmfgWallHaxz]

ncix.com/products/?sku=18452&v­pn=ADAFX62CSBOX&manufacture=AM­D

[DuyAnh1]

how much for this cpu? $2?

[TheBunnyFilms]

Haha i still use that and i have also that sealed and i have sealed AMD 64 Athlon 3000+ sealed.

[MechaNintendoMast]

@TheBunnyFilms what??? really??

[TheBunnyFilms]

@MechaNintendoMast Yea :D

[TheNecrocoil]

I actually still have a complete pc containing an athlon 64 3200+ venice core :D

Wich at first housed an athlon 1600 1.4 ghz processor, my first pc I bought back when I was 12 :P This isn't that retro ^^

[brandonsexywhitaker]

athlons are good cpus. i got a 64 x2 5000+. it oc's to about 3.1. not bad for $55

[133MHzz]

I had an Athlon XP processor back in 2003 and I remember that HUGE sheet of paper with installing instructions in a ton of different languages. It replaced my aging K6-II 500 MHz. Time sure flies!

[cjam496]

o god get that hearsink AWAY FROM ME!!!! It was a bitch to remove that it even ripped off my processor from the socket and caused my processors pins to bend

[inventorOz84]

I just can't believe how you're behaving with that processor, I bet there are still people who would beg for this processor.

It is old, but it doesn't mean it doesn't do the job.

You should have handled it with precautions and stuff, you know, not outside, dusty,windy...

Though, nice thing to see around these days, oh good old days, Fx series... Geez. 1k$ processors. I wonder how we will remember core i7 extreme editions now. it is like a time capsule.

[MaxJigga]

Hey Linux (yeah it's me again I nicknamed you Linux because you're so open and technical lol ).

You should do random drawings and send each winner a different retro unboxed product. Many people still use old tech like my main PC is a D850GB board with a Socket 478 P4 3GHz via 423->478 adaptor.

Anyway I'm jealous that the last 2 unboxing items are actually newer/more advanced than my main desktop and you get to just toss/recycle it. Oh well.

[ldsricky]

You should have included a bit of back story to this video....as to how you came across it ...and what exactly you'll be doing with it now that you've opened it

=] I enjoy your vids keep them coming!

[KoolCordell]

this processor costs 1 k when new?

[MrTetris88]

lol, those were the days. nice video

[briskandpepsi]

I demand some benchmarks! =P

[alandshawni]

The way he says processor is annoying as shit. Although it was funny to hear a correct pronunciation of processor in there. But hey, those wannabe intellectuals try to hard to be extra annoying to divert the attention away for how little they really know.

[alandshawni]

And your camera sucks balls.

[bigrigross]

I miss my old 939 socket mobo and CPU, gotta love the athlon x2 4200

[rampike74]

Heat pipes existed before you were born. :)

[mrbest20]

@rampike74 yes but there were no heat pipes for cpu's i didn't see any back then

[rampike74]

@mrbest20

You are PROBABLY wrong, but I cannot prove it.

[mrbest20]

@rampike74 i had all kinds of cpu i bought a new one each year back then

i even bought cpu coolers from the store thats supposed to cool it better instead of using the stock ones and i dont rmb seeing any heat pipes :D

[HologramKS]

Linus should run benchmarks with this cpu :D

[banaanpower123]

xD where did you found it ?

[kevinf1990]

the fx51 used to be a FAST gaming processor

[EveOnlineRanger002]

dang I'd like to have one unopened just for a collectors item :D

[Jallandhara]

I'm surprised moths didn't fly out when he opened the box.

[skipper124]

heheheh nice one state of the art dust on it

[FELIX0123]

unboxing outside o.o

[doskydotinfo]

I would like that CPU. Have been upgrading the motherboard, but still needs a better CPU!

[Snake1979xfire]

Camera had nice quality but at close range it doenst that good.

BTW nice rare unboxing of AMD haha keep it up going.

[8SetMeFree8]

@Snake1979xfire

Do you try putting the vid in 720P?

[Snake1979xfire]

Yes i always watch the vids in the highest quality.

so why ?

[Greathoof]

Nice!

[wc326]

i used to work in ncix , best computer store.

hey linus:)

[caravaggiogenesys]

i still have the processor from my first computer; AMD Am486 DX-2 66Mhz :D

[mhaneline]

That's back when games like X-Wing and Betrayal at Krondor were the shiz!

I remember having to tune the autoexec.bat and config.sys files for memory.

Expanded and Extended memory aw yeah!

[g0dverark]

@caravaggiogenesys you hopefully mean 666mhz :S? xD

[caravaggiogenesys]

@g0dverark holly f**king s**t that a lot of processing power for that period. U are nut? p3 has that frequency (666mhz) more exactly "p3 667"

[paradoxdesigns]

hahah. they must sell it!

[PenguinX44]

Oh man I remember when those were the bomb, I had an old p4 northwood at the time... was so jealous.

[Repteptilion]

hey, im running one of these now -_-

[cheese2396]

I love state-of-the-art ultra-hyper fastness!

[mastermindzh]

@cheese2396 me too :P!

[dojomann]

never use this camera again. the macro mode is just friggin TERRIBLE

[Ryd3r22]

@dojomann what is macro

[dojomann]

@Ryd3r22

it's a mode used for taking up close pictures or video. pretty much anything that requires the camera to be really close to the subject. some cameras are able to focus very well on up-close subjects, while other cameras (such as this one) are not :)

[dojomann]

@Ryd3r22

and, in reality when I say "mode" it only refers to digital cameras which have a mode that favours the auto focus on the camera to focus on objects closer to the camera. In reality it's the specifications of the lens on the camera that make all the difference. So, in the end: the lens on this camera is crappy :)

[lucky644]

That camera doesn't have a very good 'macro' focus.

[tekkennos]

my accouncts pc has one of these and the system works like a dream then again all i do is accounts on it

[mantid83]

I want to sell my i7 for this awesome chip!

[BSZanatsu]

OVERCLOCK it!!!!!!!!!!