During the past few weeks several reports surfaced with regards to different revisions of Gigabyte Motherboards. This is nothing out of the ordinary, as manufacturers often revise motherboards during their life cycle, however, what Gigabyte has done here is out of the ordinary and worth noting.

Having a closer look at the entry-level motherboards on the Gigabyte website reveals a substantial list of motherboards and their revisions. This would not be an issue if Gigabyte hadn’t decided to remove entire phases from the power design circuitry and the secondary BIOS chip, considering this is marketed as a dual BIOS motherboard.

At this point you may think that Gigabyte sells these motherboards to retailers/etailers or distributors with a different UPC code, unfortunately, not even this is the case. So far there is one very prominent example where differences are obvious. The motherboard in question is the GA-B85M-HD3 revision 1.0 and revision 2.0. Looking at the overview pictures of both revisions instantly shows that there is substantial lack of IC’s present on revision 2.0, compared to the initial revision 1.0. What’s worrying is the fact that Gigabyte has not communicated these alterations to customers, nor to their business partners. There is, for example, no new UPC code for a GA-B85M-HD3 with only three power phases, whereas the initial revision 1.0 featured four phases. These days it’s no wonder that customers are contacting retailers/etailers and even the distributors about the board they bought not being the one on the picture they've been presented.

Gigabyte has not yet responded to this topic publically with a clearing statement. We’re looking forward to hearing from them in the near future.






Source: Hardware.info