ATI AM2 Mobos?

[OBCT]

I'll be building a computer for college within the next month or so, and I've been waiting for ATI AM2 mobos, specifically with RD580 and SB600. Abit, Asus, and MSI all have what I want, just not on the market yet.

Does anyone have an idea when they'll be available? Anandtech said end of June for at least one of them.

 

[Gary Key]

We have the MSI and ECS RD580 AM2 boards for review shortly. Should be in retail in about a week or so, the bios tuning took a little longer than expected before production release of the boards. Performance is quite good at this time.

 

[OBCT]

As I prefer AMD over Intel, I'm planning to go with AM2 rather than Conroe.

In reference to this article, my intended plan is AM2 with Athlon 64 and a single X1900XT, then when AM3 and K8L come out, step up to that, and upgrade mobo, cpu, and memory one at a time, and possibly go Crossfire (if not earlier). Does this sound like a good plan?