i was never claiming that somehow ethernet was "built into" the cpu, what im saying is, if you want the kind of features built into your motherboard usually ass

i was never claiming that somehow ethernet was "built into" the cpu, what im saying is, if you want the kind of features built into your motherboard usually associated with the high end, integrated CPUs will force you to buy a high end cpu aswell stuff like: dual built in nics, IO virtualization, FB-DIMMs, Multiple PCI-e 16x slots, SAS ports, SATA 3.0 ports (have been implemented with a separate controller) can be bought on boards that support cheaper CPUs, however as these are "premium" features, you can be certain they will be bundled with an expensive CPU only.