Standard Gigabit: VIA is now delivering the VT6210.
Most people are familiar with VIA's VT6103 network chip, which supports 10 and 100 MBit/s. But now the VT6120 is also available, offering an additional 1 GBit/s.
KT880 Vs. KT600 Vs. nForce 2 Ultra 400
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Chipset
VIA KT600
VIA KT880
NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400
Launch
August 2003
February 2004
May 2003
Platform
Socket 462
Socket 462
Socket 462
Processors
AMD Duron/Athlon/XP
AMD Duron/Athlon/XP
AMD Duron/Athlon/XP
Multi-Processor Support
no
no
no
Northbridge
VIA KT600
VIA KT880
NVIDIA nForce2 SPP
Southbridge
VIA VT8235/8237
VIA VT8237
NVIDIA nForce2 MCP / MCP-T
Front Side Bus
133/166/200 MHz DDR
133/166/200 MHz DDR
133/166/200 MHz DDR
Memory
DDR266, DDR333, DDR400
DDR266, DDR333, DDR400
DDR266, DDR333, DDR400
Asynchronous Memory Mode
yes
yes
yes
Max. DIMMs
4
4
3
Max. RAM
4 GB
8 GB
3 GB
UltraDMA/33/66/100/133
yes/yes/yes/yes
yes/yes/yes/yes
yes/yes/yes/yes
# USB
8
8
6
Max. # PCI
8
8
6
Integrated Graphics
no
no
With nForce2 IGPGeForce4 MX
Integrated Sound
5.1 / 7.1
7.1
5.1
AGO 4X/8X
yes/yes
yes/yes
yes/yes
ACPI
yes
yes
yes
USB 2.0 / FireWire
yes / no
yes / no
yes / yes
Ethernet
100 MBit/s
1 GBit/s
100 MBit/s
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