Today AMD announced its new Socket AM2 motherboard chipset that will become the standard for all of its desktop processors. The key features of Socket AM2 are its support for DDR2 SDRAM and more ...

Today we are looking at a motherboard from ASUS which is designed to take on the Digital Home on the K8 front on the AMD Live! platform. Paired with nVidia's GeForce 6150 chipset, this baby is a ...

Gigabyte told us that the motherboard is going to go through a lot of changes (extra features) and maybe layout changes, but at least you have an idea of what AMD's Socket AM2 motherboards will ...

The tragedy is that AMD motherboards haven’t always been this bad. Back in 2005, when Athlon 64 ruled the enthusiast market, Socket 939 motherboards were streets ahead of their LGA775 competitors.

The Inquirer is reporting that AMD's Socket 939 replacement which has been referred to as "Socket M2" for nearly a year is now being renamed to "Socket AM2". Armed with 940 pins (no, it is NOT ...

AMD today announced the launch of the Athlon 64 FX-62 and Athlon 64 X2 5000+ CPUs, which are compatible with the new socket AM2 platform. With AM2, AMD is finally supporting DDR2 memory.

Interestingly though, AMD is apparently planning to allow end users to not only drop in an AM2+ processor into their AM2 motherboard, but also future 45nm socket AM3 processors too.

The compatibility, however, only goes one way; Socket AM2/AM2+ CPUs are not compatible with Socket AM3 motherboards. As for the relationship between AM3 and DDR3, that's a tad less clear.

With the brand new specification of AMD Socket AM2, the overall performance of A33G motherboard will be extremely enhanced by supporting for advanced dual-channel DDR2 memory.

A PhenomII X4 955 BE worked like a champ in my AM2 (not AM2+) board, a Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H with AMD 690G chipset. Course I had an AM3 board waiting for it, but I was just curious.