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