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[Solved] Gigabyte's Motherboards Nomenclature!!!

Forum Overclocking : Motherboards [Solved] Gigabyte's Motherboards Nomenclature!!!

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This forms reveal's what gigabyte's naming stretegy is based on and what for OCer's should opt like UD mobo's S3 etc.
GIGABYTE use a special system for naming their motherboards. For example the GA-P35-DS3R. The first segment, GA, simply denotes that it's manufactured by GIGABYTE. The second segment indicates what chipset it is using, in this case Intel's P35. The third part shows what features the motherboard has. This segment mostly contains a number of abbreviations.

Available 1st segment abbreviations:

If "A" appears after the chipset code, it has the 333 onboard acceleration (USB 3.0, USB Power X3, SATA 3 Gbps)
If "M" appears after the chipset code, it is a mATX board.
If "M" appears in front of the chipset number it means it is for an AMD processor, but has a non-AMD chipset.
If "MA" appears before the chipset number it is for an AMD processor and has an AMD chipset.
Available 2nd segment abbreviations:

E - (Dynamic Energy Saver) - Energy saving features
T - Only DDR3 SDRAM support (i.e: GA-MA770T-US3)
C - Both DDR2 and DDR3 SDRAM support
F - Includes FireWire port and header (i.e: GA-EG41MF-US2H)
No T or C abbreviations mean that the motherboard only has DDR2 SDRAM support.
Available 3rd segment abbreviations:

D (Durability) - Indicates that the motherboard uses only solid state capacitors.
U/UD (Ultra Durable 3) - Introduces 2 ounces of copper for both the Power and Ground layers.
S2 (Smart, Safe) - Various features such as Q-Flash BIOS etc.
S3 (Smart, Speed, Safe) - Same as above, but includes overclocking features.
S4 (Silent Pipe, Smart, Speed, Safe) - Same as above, but uses heat pipe cooling.
S5 (CrossFire, Silent Pipe, Smart, Speed, Safe) - Same as above, but with CrossFire support.
Q6 (Quad BIOS, Quad Cooling, Quad E-SATA 2.0, Quad Triple Phase, Quad-Core Optimized, Quad DDR2 Slots) - Indicates quad-core optimization.
Available 4th segment abbreviations:

# (2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7) - Compares boards of same class. (i.e: GA-P55-UD3)
Available 5th segment abbreviations:

R - 2 extra SATA 2.0 ports and possibly RAID support. May have FireWire port. May not have ATI CrossFire support. (i.e: GA-P35-DS3R)
G - Solid capacitors for the CPU Volt Regulator Module.
H - HDMI port. Possibly Changing, Using it for DisplayPort if HDMI port standard (i.e.: GA-H55-USB3 has HDMI)
L - Probably "Lite". Fewer SATA 2.0 ports. No RAID support. No FireWire ports. No ATI CrossFire support. Heatsink cooling. (i.e GA-P35-DS3L). It could also indicate Gigabit LAN (as in GA-G31M-S2L, versus GA-G31M-S2C which has support for 10/100Mbps Ethernet).
P - Silent Pipe, RAID, Extra PCI Express slots, extra SATA 2.0 ports. (i.e: GA-EP45-DS3P)
Thanks for Wikipedia for This info...
Thanks all for reading....
KKK

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That's an incredibly useful list. I always tried to figure out what it all meant, but would usually just look at the specs.

Thanks for the post.

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jitpublisher wrote :

Uh, so what's the question?


Hey sorry i worngly posted in questions section.... :cry:

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