ASUS AM2 Motherboard Lineup

The spearhead of ASUS’s AM2 offerings will be the nForce 590 SLI and Xpress 3200 motherboards, labeled as the M2N32-SLI Deluxe and M2R32-MVP Deluxe respectively. The M2N32-SLI Deluxe features everything you’d expect t find on nForce 590, including dual gigabit LAN ports from the nForce MCP, eight SATA 3.0Gbps (of which one is external SATA) and dual full x16 PCIe graphics interfaces. NVIDIA’s LinkBoost technology will also make an appearance on the M2N32-SLI Deluxe, which ASUS’s box art claims will automatically overclock the PCIe and MCP HyperTransport link by 25% when a GeForce 7900 or 7950 GPU is inserted into both PCIe x16 interfaces. The M2N32-SLI Deluxe will also come in a workstation version dubbed the M2N32-WS.

There will be a good selection of ASUS boards at AM2 launch. The top two nVIDIA boards differ only between the 8x and 16x PCI-E slots in SLi mode. There is also a Crossfire edition for ATi users. You can take a closer look at the boards over at DailyTech.