Why does Gigabyte have 27 boards based on the P35 chipset??
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Why does Gigabyte have 27 boards based on the P35 chipset??
I was hoping to get the Asus P5K Deluxe, which would have made things simple, but everyone seems to complain that the P5K runs hotter than Gigabyte's offering, so fine, I'll get the Gigabyte.
But when I go to the Gigabyte Web site, I see that they have no fewer than 27 motherboards based on the P35 chipset! And I'd really like to be informed as to how they differ. I understand that most seem to prefer the GA-P35-DS3R but there's also the GA-P35C-DS3R or the GA-P35-DS3 or the GA-P35-DS3P and I'd really like to know what the differences are. I assume the letters mean something. Does the R in DS3R mean RAID, perhaps? What does the C mean in P35C?
Thanks.
But when I go to the Gigabyte Web site, I see that they have no fewer than 27 motherboards based on the P35 chipset! And I'd really like to be informed as to how they differ. I understand that most seem to prefer the GA-P35-DS3R but there's also the GA-P35C-DS3R or the GA-P35-DS3 or the GA-P35-DS3P and I'd really like to know what the differences are. I assume the letters mean something. Does the R in DS3R mean RAID, perhaps? What does the C mean in P35C?
Thanks.
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Re: Why does Gigabyte have 27 boards based on the P35 chipse
Because they are stupid and don't realize that it confuses people.Shmanky wrote:Why does Gigabyte have 27 boards based on the P35 chipset??
But the hardware is good, so try to work through it. Narrow your selection down to a handful and use their website product compare feature to finally decide.
Some of those are revisions of a particular board, with some boards having 3 versions. The BIOS and driver files are the same for different versions of the same board, but the manuals are updated to reflect the changes. The new revisions replace the earlier ones, so it's not as if they actually have 27 different ones on the market at once.
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If you go to their Comparison Sheet page, there are two ways of searching in their Comparison Sheet Search box. The bottom option will let you narrow things down a bit. For instance, next to "Type:," if you select "Socket 775" in the "By Socket" box and "Intel P35" in the "By Chipset" box, then check the "No" radio button for "By VGA On-Board," that results in 6 boards (still a lot, but it's workable). If you also get rid of on-board RAID, that results in just one board.
I agree, though: it would be nice if they had a radio button for each of whatever those letters in the model names mean so we could find exactly what we want.
I agree, though: it would be nice if they had a radio button for each of whatever those letters in the model names mean so we could find exactly what we want.