So which new board is best? No seriously, the article below from ExtremeTech does a great job at showing us that finding the right board is simply a few clicks away. Well, this is the case if you are an AMD fan…

AMD officially launched its Socket AM2 Athlon 64 CPUs on May 23. The new processors sport a new memory controller, which fully supports DDR2/800 for dual core and DDR2/667 for single core. Since the CPU now has a different, 940-pin socket, new motherboards and new core logic are needed. First out of the chute are motherboards using Nvidia’s recently announced Nforce 500 series chipsets. Gamers and performance enthusiasts will cotton to the Nforce 590 core logic. In addition to supporting Nvidia’s SLI (scalable link interface) technology for dual graphics cards, the 590 offers an unusual degree of tweakability.

Today, we take a close look at a pair of boards based on the Nforce 590 SLI— Foxconn’s C51XEM2AA and the ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe, Wireless Edition. One is specifically designed for users who like to hot-rod their systems and wring out every last possible clock cycle. The other is more mainstream (and slightly less overclocker friendly) but no less potent. Think of one as a Dodge Viper and the other as a BMW M5, if you will…. Source: ExtremeTech

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