Originally posted by: herbiehancock
Originally posted by: Cheex
Originally posted by: renethx
The major differences between various revisions are:
- Rev. 1.0: FSB 1066MHz, one system fan header, ALC883 (Vista Basic Logo)
- Rev. 1.3: FSB 1333MHz, one system fan header, ALC883
- Rev. 2.0: FSB 1066MHz, three system fan headers, ALC888 (Vista Premium Logo)
- Rev. 3.3: FSB 1333MHz, three system fan headers, ALC888
I don't know why GIGABYTE added rev. 1.3 in the last (it appeared in the GIGABYTE website only within a couple of days). Its audio codec is sligtly out of date. It's a good buy anyway.
This is a very good outline of all the differences. This should be an adequate comparison.
While those are a decent listing of feature-set differences, I think there are some quite different
construction techniques on the two versions of this board.
This is what I think is happening with the naming convention........the X.3 versions of the board indicates the 1333FSB capability of the board, whether it's a Rev. 1.3 or Rev. 3.3.
But looking at the actual two boards and comparing them, some quite obvious differences in their construction, i.e. capacitors and such, are very telling......
Open the two linked pics below in separate windows and compare the red blocked areas between the two boards......very different parts used in their makeup.
GA-965P-ds3 Rev. 3.3
GA-965P-ds3 Rev. 1.3
Now, I own a Rev. 3.3 of this board and it looks exactly like the Rev. 3.3 pic linked above. The Rev. 1.3 board pic, provided by Gigabyte and matched to Newegg's pic....both are exactly the same, looks like it's constructed a bit cheaper, which may be the reason why it costs less. (Look at the areas encirlced in red....pardon my lack of painting skills!)
The Rev. 1.3 seems to use some quite different pieces around the cpu socket, next to the SATA ports, along the PCI-e slot, and loses a few capacitors just above the first PCI slot.
Lots of wire-wound "things" instead of what appear to be solid-state units on the Rev. 3.3 board......I'm not an electronics parts expert so I don't know what the wire-wound things are called that are present on the Rev. 1.3 board, but they are quite different from what is used on the Rev. 3.3.
Maybe this is why it's cheaper?
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