why are the mothboard rev,

[Vad3r]

just curious what it means when you see different revisions ? for motherboards.

I'm getting the GA-P35-DS3P, and on the gigabyte site I see

Rev 1.0 Rev 1.1 Rev 2.0.

Here in Canada, I really don't see there being any choice, I'll end up with whatever they have. Would just like to know what it means.

I hope it doesn't mean flaws fixed and new Rev required.

 

[bigsnyder]

The biggest change from 1.1 to 2.0 for DS3P is on the backplane:
-no legacy parallel or serial ports (not sure if there is even a com header on the 2.0 board)
-8 usb ports vs 4
-2 firewire ports vs 1

I know there are other changes, I just don't know what they are. Maybe the changes are related
to the EMI issues that has been reported plaguing some of their other boards.

DS3P v2.0
DS3P v1.1

 

[Vad3r]

thank you,

now I can see the difference. Now I want the rev 2.0, and I'm nearly sure we won't have that here in Canada. Prefer the 8usb / 2 firewire.

 

[Drexl]

The 2.0 has the serial and parallel ports as headers on the board. The prior revisions have the other firewire port as a header as well. There is one other difference that I noticed in the manual - apparently the 2.0 has an S/PDIF output as a pair of pins on the board. This would come in handy with a video card with HDMI output, because you could run the audio internally to the card, rather than having to run a cable from the coaxial output back into the case.