"After months of speculations, on the morning of May 23, 2006 AMD had officially announced their AM2 socket. With AMD's launch, NVIDIA had unleashed their nForce 500 Chipset series, while other manufacturers began offering up their various AM2 products. With that Tuesday launch, Advanced Micro Devices had offered a complete line of AM2 processors from the budget AMD Sempron 3000+ all the way to the Athlon 64 FX-62 processor, though the key change in this socket move was simply the integration of a DDR2 memory controller over DDR1. Of the first AM2 motherboards to have entered our labs was the ASRock AM2NF4G-SATA2..."
