Hardwarezone takes a sneak peak at the 2 motherboards for the new socket AM2 from AMD. These boards are not in production yet, but give a glance at what to expect.
The AM2 will be compatible with current AMD chipsets because of the hypertransport technology remaining the same. The 940 pin chips will not be compatible with the older 940 pin layout that was used before.
The AM2 chips will include integrated DDR2 controllers, allowing them to use DDR2, rather than the older DDR, which they were stuck with using for such a long time.
Despite the compatibility with older chipsets, Nvidia have released the new 500-series chipsets to compliment the release of these new chips.
Both of these fully-features boards make good platforms on which to build a new computer based on the new AMD chips. Check them out to see how they look.
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