Gigabyte 7DXC from Overstock.com... What kind of animal is it?

[zhenya]

I bought it as "7DXC". On the board itself it says 7DX Rev. 2.2. But when I turn it on, BIOS says that it is "7DXR". The BIOS version is F4. Does anyone know what this board might actually be?

Thanks.

 

[Oberon]

If the PCB is blue then it's a GA-7DXR, otherwise a brown PCB means it's a 7DXC/7DX.

 

[husker626]

Let me know when you figure out what kind of mobo it is. I've been thinking about buying one. If it's a a 7DX or 7DXR I might have to order one

Husker

 

[zhenya]

Sorry for dumb question. What does "PCB" mean?

 

[Oberon]

PCB = "Printed Circuit Board" - the big flat thing with all the little components stuck on it

 

[Oberon]

If you want to make really sure you can look at a picture of the two boards online:

7DXC
7DXR

In fact the DXC is just a slightly differnet version of the DX but the DXR is completely different from both DX and DXC. The DXR is newer and performs much better than the DX/C.

 

[Jungwirsch]

An unfortunate acronym. PCB is otherwise well known as "Polychlorinated Biphenyls", the toxic stuff leaking from some old chemical plants and power generator stations.

 

[zhenya]

PCB is brown. And "7DX rev. 2.2" is written on it. Well, if it is a 7DX, how the hell they flashed 7DXR BIOS on it? And the BIOS works fine, supports all features, including those which are not available in regular 7DX (FSB clock speed change).

 

[Oberon]

hmm... I wonder how your board performs then with the DXR bios on it...

 

[zhenya]

I just got my CPU today, so I didn't have time to benchmark the MB yet. During those 20 min. of "playing" with it, I overclocked Thunderburd 1.2 to 1.45. Windows 2000 loaded just fine. Again, I didn't have time to run any other tests.