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| == Aorus Motherboards ==
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| Gigabyte uses a tier system of naming for their <u>Aorus</u> line of boards, they are placed after the chipset code and 'Aorus'. For example the <u>X570 AORUS MASTER.</u> They are:
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| * XTREME / Gaming 9
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| * MASTER / Gaming 7
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| * ULTRA / Gaming 5
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| * PRO / Ultra Gaming
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| * ELITE / Gaming 3
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| ''(In order of best to worst).''
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| * For motherboards like the <u>B450 AORUS M</u>, the ''''M'''<nowiki/>' just denotes that it is a [[Micro ATX|'''Micro ATX''']] board.
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| == Non-Aorus Motherboards ==
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| Gigabyte uses a special naming system for their other motherboards, it consists of three parts separated by ''hyphens (-).'' For example the <u>GA-B550M-DS3H</u>.
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| The <u>first part</u>, '''GA''', simply denotes that the motherboard is manufactured by Gigabyte
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| The <u>second part</u> indicates the chipset that the motherboard uses, in this case AMD '''B550'''
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| The <u>third part</u> denotes the feature set of the motherboard (See below)
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| === 1<sup>st</sup> segment abbreviations: ===
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| * If ''''M'''<nowiki/>' appears after the chipset code, it is a [[Micro ATX|'''Micro ATX''']] board.
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| * If ''''I'''<nowiki/>' appears after the chipset code, it is a [[Mini ITX|'''Mini ITX''']] board.
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| === 2<sup>nd</sup> segment abbreviations (Unused on recent boards): ===
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| * '''E''' - (Dynamic Energy Saver) - Energy saving features
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| * '''T''' - Only DDR3 SDRAM support
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| * '''C''' - Both DDR2 and DDR3 SDRAM support
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| * No '''T''' or '''C''' abbreviations mean that the motherboard only has DDR2 SDRAM support.
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| === 3<sup>rd</sup> segment abbreviations: ===
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| * '''D''' ('''D'''urability) - Indicates that the motherboard uses only solid state capacitors.
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| * '''UD''' ('''U'''ltra '''D'''urable 3) - Introduces 2 ounces of copper for both the Power and Ground layers.
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| * '''USB3''' – Indicates that the motherboard features Ultra Durable 3 and '''USB 3.0''' support
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| * '''S2''' ('''S'''mart, '''S'''afe) - Various features such as Q-Flash BIOS etc.
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| * '''S3''' ('''S'''mart, '''S'''peed, '''S'''afe) - Same as above, but includes overclocking features.
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| * '''S4''' ('''S'''ilent Pipe, '''S'''mart, '''S'''peed, '''S'''afe) - Same as above, but uses heat pipe cooling.
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| * '''S5''' (CrossFire, '''S'''ilent Pipe, '''S'''mart, '''S'''peed, '''S'''afe) - Same as above, but with CrossFire support.
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| * '''Q6''' ('''Q'''uad BIOS, '''Q'''uad Cooling, '''Q'''uad E-SATA2, '''Q'''uad Triple Phase, '''Q'''uad-Core Optimized, '''Q'''uad DDR2 Slots) - Indicates quad-core optimization.
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| === 4<sup>th</sup> segment abbreviations: ===
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| * '''R''' - 2 extra SATAII ports and possibly RAID support. May have FireWire port. May not have ATI CrossFire support. (i.e; <u>GA-P35-DS3R</u>)
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| * '''G''' - Solid capacitors for the CPU Volt Regulator Module.
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| * '''H''' - HDMI port.
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| * '''L''' - Probably "Lite". Fewer SATAII ports. No RAID support. No FireWire ports. No ATI CrossFire support. Heatsink cooling. (i.e <u>GA-P35-DS3L</u>). It could also indicate Gigabit LAN (as in <u>GA-G31M-S2L</u>, versus <u>GA-G31M-S2C</u> which has support for 10/100Mbps Ethernet).
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| * '''P''' - Silent Pipe, RAID, Extra PCI Express slots, extra SATAII ports. (i.e; <u>GA-EP45-DS3P</u>)
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