The nForce2 chipset was a platform for motherboards supporting AMD's Socket A CPUs along with DDR SDRAM.

[1] There were multiple variations of the chipset including one with an integrated GeForce4 MX graphics processor (IGP), and one without.

[4] The new chipset was partnered with several different southbridges, including one with (MCP-T) and one without (MCP) SoundStorm and dual Ethernet NICs.

In 2004 three new southbridges were introduced: MCP-S integrated Serial ATA, MCP-RAID had additional RAID-functions and MCP-Gb featured Gigabit Ethernet.

These newer southbridges did not integrate the SoundStorm unit nor the dual-Ethernet capabilities of the MCP-T.