Standard Gigabit: ora VIA utilizza il VT6210.
Tante persone sono abituate a vedere il chip network VIA VT6103, il quale supporta 10 e 100 MB/sec. Ora è disponibile il VT6120, che permette di raggiungere 1 GB/sec.
KT880 Vs. KT600 Vs. NForce 2 Ultra 400
Chipset | VIA KT600 | VIA KT880 | NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 |
Launch | August 2003 | February 2004 | July 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 IGP GeForce4 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 | No / no | yes / yes |
Ethernet | 100 MBit/s | 1 GBit/s | 100 MBit/s |