nForce3-250: Which Boards Have On-Chip LAN?
by Wesley Fink on August 6, 2004 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
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Socket 754/939 Boards That Have On-Chip LAN
As of August 2, 2004, nVidia provided the list of boards below that definitely have nVidia on-chip Gigabit LAN.| Motherboards with nVidia On-Chip Gigabit LAN | |
| Manufacturer | Model |
| ASUS | K8N-E |
| Biostar | K8NHA Grand |
| DFI | LANParty UT NF3-250Gb |
| DFI | LANParty NF3 Ultra |
| EPOX | 8KDA3+/8KDA3J |
| EPOX | 8KDF |
| EPOX | 9NDA3 |
| Gigabyte | K8NSNXP-939 10/100 on-chip ONLY |
| Iwill | DK8N |
| Iwill | ZMAXdp |
| Leadtek | K8N250A |
| Leadtek | K8N250M |
| MSI | MSI7025(939) |
| MSI | MSI7030 (754) |
| Soltek | SL-B9A-FGR |
| Soltek | SL-K8AN2E-GR |
Other boards based on the nVidia chipset family will likely appear in both Socket 754 and Socket 939 in the future. For a board that is not listed, look for the nVidia nForce3-250Gb logo, the nForce3-250 Ultra logo, or the nVidia Firewall label. Any of these three logos identify the board as having nVidia on-chip LAN that communicates directly with the chipset.
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ZobarStyl - Friday, August 6, 2004 - link
sorry log post; didn't the article say that a 250 Gb or Ultra could have an external LAN chip that was still removed from the PCI bus which was the same end result? I looked up the Gigabyte board and saw the same thing as #1 did and I'm a little confused though, NewEgg lists the K8NSNXP as 250 vanilla, can we clear this up?ZobarStyl - Friday, August 6, 2004 - link
Palek - Friday, August 6, 2004 - link
On a related note, there is at least one motherboard for the Socket A family that also has nVidia Gbit LAN and firewall, namely the EPoX 8RDA6+Pro. This mobo uses the new nF2 Ultra400+Gigabit MCP. People not yet ready to make the jump to AMD64 can stick with Athlon and still enjoy these new features. See http://www.ocworkbench.com/2004/epox/8rda6+pro/g1....gtech41 - Friday, August 6, 2004 - link
Neither Gigabyte board uses the on-chip GB LAN. Thek8nsnxp uses only the basic 250, while the 939 uses the Marvell 8001 PCI controller (not the 88E111 PHY like the Asus or MSI). Both also use the ICS 1883 PHY for for a second LAN port, but that's just a 10/100 link to the chipset. Easy way to tell-look at the drivers. If any LAN controller uses drivers other than nVidia's unified ones then it's a PCI part.