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Finally, the media realizes that gigabyte cutting costs with motherboard revisions at the cost of the customer..
I don't understand why they don't use another model name for such a revised product.. so shame
Source: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/gigabyte-pushing-it-a-motherboard-revision-too-far.html
I don't understand why they don't use another model name for such a revised product.. so shame
Source: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/gigabyte-pushing-it-a-motherboard-revision-too-far.html
- Rev. 1.1 features 3 mosfets for all 3 phases of the CPU power supply. Revision 2.0 has 2 mosfets per phase
- Rev. 1.1 has Dual BIOS, Rev. 2.0 only sports one BIOS chip
- Rev 1.1 has an extra ASMedia chip near the HDMI port; it's missing on Rev 2.0 mist
- Rev 2.0 has fewer SMD components surrounding the audio codec chip
- Rev 2.0 has fewer SMD components around the chipset
- GA-B85M-HD3 V2 lacks one power phase
- GA-B85M-D2 series V2 lacks one of the two dual-bioses
- GA-P85-D3 series V2 got smaller heatsinks
- GA-B85-HD3 / GA-Z87P-D3received a smaller PCB, smaller heatsinks