FiringSquad take a look at four different nForce 570/590 SLI motherboards for AMD's brand new AM2 socket:

The selection of motherboards for the AM2 socket has been growing steadily. We are yet to see any ATI Crossfire RD580 motherboards available for purchase (the only ones we have seen are on backorder). The selection of nVidia's nF500 series motherboards is growing steadily. It has been 5 weeks since the official announcement of AM2 and there are over 25 different motherboards available. Two of the motherboards tested here today, the Gigabyte M59SLI-S5 and the EPOX MF570SLI are not available yet, but will be in the very near future.

As of right now, we cannot recommend any particular board. There will be a second part in this AM2 roundup featuring more motherboards where we will recommend the motherboards that stand out from the rest. In this roundup, every motherboard stood out for a different reason. The ASUS M2N32 SLI Deluxe stood out due to a richer feature set such which included external SATA and 8 phase power management. The Gigabyte M59SLI-S5 motherboard had an extra PEG slot, making it more future proof than the rest. The EPOX MF570SLI stood out by providing equal performance, and enthusiast controls for a much lower price. Although the Foxconn C51XEM2AA didn't stand out anywhere in particular, it took the majority of benchmarks by a tiny margin.

There is also a looming threat on the horizon. Intel is scheduled to release the Core2Duo or 'Conroe' in a few weeks. A day after that AMD is planning price cuts up to 50% on all AM2 CPUs on July 24th.So if you wait a few weeks, you'll be able to judge for yourself which platform is better, and enjoy significantly lower prices.