Your opinion: Gigabyte motherboards

[Mr.Tweak]

of course the average joe won't know that A7V333 means, to them its just numbers and letters and the same with GA-5AX, but to 'informed' like you and me, know what A7V333 means, its by asus, its for the athlon, has a via chipset, and the chipset is the kt333, GA-5AX on the other hand, the only thing i can get from that is Gigabyte :\

Not a fan of Gigabyte, Andy? :)

[Moose]

of course the average joe won't know that A7V333 means, to them its just numbers and letters and the same with GA-5AX, but to 'informed' like you and me, know what A7V333 means, its by asus, its for the athlon, has a via chipset, and the chipset is the kt333, GA-5AX on the other hand, the only thing i can get from that is Gigabyte :\

And...?

It still doesn't matter as the product code is not aimed at you and me...It is just a product code to tell the products apart...Generally a company will stick to a good product and continue to use that product until a more suitable product is released...once they know the specs on that mainboard there is no need for them to be told all the time...And really Andy.....if you look on the back of a Mainboard box...it usually has the specs of the product inside...so what is the point of creating a long code that will get people confused because they generally sound and look kind of the same when there is no need for?

Personally I think Gigabytes coding system is better...it is short and every mainboard code is always easy to tell apart :devil:

[Andy]

Not a fan of Gigabyte, Andy? :)

nah, just don't like their model numbering

[Andy]

And...?

It still doesn't matter as the product code is not aimed at you and me...It is just a product code to tell the products apart...Generally a company will stick to a good product and continue to use that product until a more suitable product is released...once they know the specs on that mainboard there is no need for them to be told all the time...And really Andy.....if you look on the back of a Mainboard box...it usually has the specs of the product inside...so what is the point of creating a long code that will get people confused because they generally sound and look kind of the same when there is no need for?

Personally I think Gigabytes coding system is better...it is short and every mainboard code is always easy to tell apart :devil:

like i said in one of my earlier posts:
"maybe its just me wanting informative model numbers or something"

[Moose]

like i said in one of my earlier posts:
"maybe its just me wanting informative model numbers or something"

AKA: 0wn3d ;)

[Andy]

AKA: 0wn3d ;)

ner :p

[Mr.Tweak]

Guys guys guys, grow up! :laugh:

[Beefy]

yeah, grow up!

:p

[Moose]

ino ino.....but i can't help it :p

[reli]

nah, just don't like their model numbering

so everybody can stop arguing about Gigabyte's naming, for my understanding, it does have a meaning.

GA-8IDML

GA for Gigabyte
8 ( first letter for CPU) Intel P4
ID (second and third letter for chipset vender + chipset) Intel brookdale Sdram
M (forth for form factor) Micro ATX
L (fifth code for other features) w/AC97 and LAN

You just have to know and it'll be easy, just like the example from Asus.

[reli]

besides the GA- at the start, the modle naming doesn't mean anything
e.g:
A7V333 - that in itself tells you, that its a VIA chipset, the kt333
GA-5AX - all it tells you is its made by Gigabyte nothing much else

maybe its just me wanting informative model numbers or something

So for GA-5AX
will be
GA-Gigabyte
5 for 568
A for aladin
X for ATX

it wasn't that bad. just had to know, like asus A7V333

[reli]

maybe a currently hot model might help

GA-7VRXP

7-K7
VR- Via DDR
X-ATX
P-plus

[Moose]

We know they have meaning...


It's just that they are not as clear as say ASUS..

That is what we were discussing :)

[fragman]

The GA-5AX was a socket 7 board based on the ALi Aladdin chipset - didn't most boards with the Aladdin 5 have big issues?

[GK1]

Gigabyte GA-6VXDC7

Dual PIII 1GHz board Via Apollo Pro 133A chipset - Win2k Stable as a rock.
No problems at all - Bios has only a limited number of settings so is by no means an overclockers board - great for the duallie set up.