Gigabyte pushing it a motherboard revision too far ?
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cowie
They realized the board was equipped alittle much for a 70usd board is my guess they should have renamed it thou.
mackintosh
Let's just say that is not very nice of them... Minor revisions aren't worthy of a raised eyebrow, but these kind of changes should require a different SKU.
CalculuS
This is why I went for an Asrock board instead of Gigabyte. There has to be a reason Gigabyte seems so much cheaper than other entry level boards.
schmidtbag
Not the first time they did this. With the motherboard I own (GA-890FXA-UD5 rev 2.0) the rev 2.1 board was roughly the same thing but just used cheaper components and I think the RAM channels were arranged differently. Both boards look nearly identical but there are some subtle differences.
The way I see it - if these boards perform equally, I don't personally care if the parts are cheaper. But if I'm looking to overclock and the cheaper parts prevent me from getting where I want to, that's a problem.
alanm
Bait and switch. Thats pretty low. I hope this gets wide coverage and shames them bad.
Elder III
Definitely should have a different SKU and/or name for those revisions. If the actual specs are changing that much.... 🙁 I'm going to have to double check all specs on the manufacturer's website prior to any purchase now - which isn't a bad idea anyways, just more time consuming.
Reddoguk
H already said that these are very low end/priced boards and not really made to be overclocked or tinkered with.
They are basically plug and play boards. So you get what you get and that's it.
If this was the case with 100$ boards then i'm sure there would be an issue here.
Some people don't even know anything about Rev. In fact i rang Scan.co.uk once to ask about a certain Gigabyte mobo and what Rev it was because the mobo i wanted had Rev 1.1 out with improvements, like they had moved the 8pin CPU socket to the edge instead of the middle of the board.
I was told basically that i would get whatever they had in stock. Not happy with that and adamant that that was the board for me, i dug a bit deeper until i got a 100% guarantee that if i ordered i'd get the 1.1. Which i did in the end.
You can now phone Scan and ask what Rev is on a certain product. They even started listing the Rev number on items that have newer revs.
Saying stupid things about Gigabyte for this is crazy, i mean these boards are DIRT CHEAP, i don't even know where their profit comes from with these 50$ mobos. Still put a lot of copper and high end caps on these boards.
Anarion
This happens with graphics cards too. XFX is one who usually craptalises their cards in new revision.
GreenAlien
I always expected revisions to be better by default. Well.. now i know better than that.. thank you for that article..
Aura89
I'm confused, when was it ever stated no matter what product it is no matter where it's from etc. that a new revision should be the same product functionally? I've never ever gone and looked at a product and seen that it has a revision and thought "Oh, i don't have to worry they are the same product"...as that thought never crossed my mind, it's a new revision, it's a new product, etc. So i'm just trying to figure out why it seems this article is stating it hasn't been that way....when it has...?
maize1951
Just like buying boxed foods (ice cream is an big example of this) or detergents from the supermarkets, same price and less of the product.
tsunami231
bait and switch like ones says earlier, good thing i never buy gigabyte hardware and i never will
cowie
Yeah they take the chocolate out of my chocolate ice cream I would have only vanilla.
if they even try to take my pistachio all I would get is dyed green vanilla that would get me going off to the moon you would have to call the freaking marines
umeng2002
It's like they're trying to deceive people.
swapping parts or improving the product are what revisions are for. Sabertooth 990FX -> Rev2 added Win 8 quick boot feature (Doubled the BIOS flash size) -> Rev 3 added PCIe 16x 3.0
Revisions aren't for cheaping out a product by removing features like power phases.
Gigabyte is completely off my buying list
Darksword
Reminds me of the Kingston V300 SSD "new revision" bait and switch.
If you're making significant changes that can affect performance it should be put under a new SKU.
Noisiv
This is infuriating right?
Gigabyte has so many revisions with both mobos and graphic cards, its ridiculous.
At least they are transparent enough to list them on their website.
Reviewers rarely if ever bother to mention the difference between the revisions.
Props to Guru3d for bringing this
bemaniac
the x79-ud3 was basically gash. It's sat in a junk box after the 4.5ghz multi stopped working and the vrms were playing up. X79 sabertooth is a revelation of an improvement I tell thee!
anticupidon
Still,their hardware sells and for sure they will get along with this.
But good to know, it will be a pity to buy hardware just to find out that they screwed you over with a lousy revision.
Reddoguk
TBH you should all know perfectly well all about REVS. if you build PCs for long enough.
I'm totally shocked at the lack of knowledge showed on this subject here @ Guru3D by some of it's members. In fact it's almost laughable when some say things like "never buying Gigabyte again".
If your in the market for new components then it's always important to check what the latest Rev is and even why it is upgraded/changed. I even found out why my G1 is Rev 1.1.
It's not down to Gigabyte people, it's down to you to do your research.
If i am buying a mobo in the UK on-line, first i check to see if there is more than one Rev.
If i find out there is then i'll phone the retailer and ask which Rev they have in stock.
This way there can be no confusion.
Plus Gigabyte has EXTENSIVE info on their site about Revs. as some boards have 5-6 Revs and the mobo drivers might be slightly different so all Revs are listed and EXPLAINED.
Or maybe i just know all this stuff because i'm a bit loyal to Gigabyte and have used their products ever since an Asus mobo went bang 8 odd years ago.
DLD
As for Gigabyte's "accuracy" in naming their products:
recently, a guy from my neighborhood purchased an Intel based GA mobo. The model was advertised as "twin BIOS" or "double BIOS", and it's FIRST edition indeed was equipped with TWO BIOS chips. Now, the distributer started advertising and selling mobos, but, apparently it turned out that it was a revision 2 or 3 of the mobo with the SAME name/designation...
Allegedly the distributer did not know that this revision LACKED that other BIOS (thus making it a single BIOS mobo).
Do I have to tell you how furious my neighbor was when he realized this?
