Live from Taiwan: Cebit 2006 Preview

AM2 Motherboards

All of the Tier 1 players will be showing at least one AM2 board, and some will have several on display, but not running.

Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe

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The upcoming Asus AM2 board based on the NVIDIA chipsets looks very much like the current A8N32-SLI Deluxe. Asus also plans an upper end ATI RD-580 board at launch.


ECS KA3-MVP & KN3-SLI2

ECS was the only Tier 1 manufacturer showing a working ATI RD580 motherboard for Socket AM2, which will be called the KA3-MVP.

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ECS also had a working dual x16 SLI motherboard based on new NVIDIA chipsets. It is called the KN3-SLI2.

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Gigabyte K8NDSLI PRO

Gigabyte was also showing an NVIDIA chipset based AM2 board. The Gigabyte board being shown appears to be a dual x8 solution based on the single NVIDIA chipset.

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You will also likely see an ATI RD580 AM2 board from Gigabyte.


MSI K9N Platinum

MSI was showing both high-end and low-end AM2 boards. The K9N Platinum is a dual x8 NVIDIA SLI board.

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There was also a smaller, cheaper MSI AM2 based on the recently released Ultra chipset.

You will also see an ATI RD580 AM2 at the launch of the new AMD chip in about 3 months.