Originally posted by: frangus
I just got in on this board (Gigabyte GA-8SQ800) too. Hopefully this board from newegg comes with the rev B0 SIS655 chipset instead of the rev A0. But I have a feeling that it will be the rev A0 since this is one of the earlier samples that hit retail.
Originally posted by: Jayczar
Originally posted by: frangus
I just got in on this board (Gigabyte GA-8SQ800) too. Hopefully this board from newegg comes with the rev B0 SIS655 chipset instead of the rev A0. But I have a feeling that it will be the rev A0 since this is one of the earlier samples that hit retail.
here is a quote from the Anand review about the SiS 655's from Gigabyte:
"With the SINXP1394, Gigabyte has certainly produced one of the nicest and fastest feature-filled Pentium 4 motherboards on the market. Loaded with onboard Serial ATA and IDE RAID, FireWire, USB 2.0, dual channel DDR400 and Hyper Threading support among other nice features, the Gigabyte SINXP1394 is quite the all-in-one wonder. And in case you're curious, even though we used the A0 stepping Gigabyte SINXP1394 for this review, all of Gigabyte's SiS 655 boards will ship with a B0 stepping North Bridge that adds Hyper Threading support"
Hopefully this proves to be true and we get BO's, even though I don't have a Hyper threading
CPU it would be nice to have the feature.
Originally posted by: NFS4
I'm thinking of getting one as well. Does it come with a Firewire card like pictured from NewEgg?
Originally posted by: frangus
I wonder what exactly is the difference between rev A0 and B0 chips. If you look at Anand's motherboard review of the MSI 655 max and the Gigabyte's 655 board SINXP1394 (essentially the GA-8SQ800 Ultra2), you will see that in the MSI review sample the rev B0 was used and in the Gigabyte the rev A0 was used. Looking at the performance graphs, the MSI was a tad noticable faster. Could it be that on top of officially Hyperthreading support, the B0 also was a tad faster than the A0?
Originally posted by: NFS4
Mine just came in today!! I can't belive that gigabyte doesn't put an I/O shield in their though!! BOOOOO
The shield from my 4G4A won't fit. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO gibabyte, BOOOOOOOOOO
I'll install it later today and report back
Originally posted by: frangus
Evan: this is a quote from your MSI SIS655 board review in which I presumed you reviewed the newly recieved board instead:
"2-8-2003 UDPATE Within the last 24 hours we have received the latest revision of the MSI 655 Max-FISR. While the MSI 655 Max-FISR motherboard tested in this review uses an A0 stepping SiS 655 North Bridge and A2 stepping SiS 963 South Bridge, the new MSI 655 Max-FISR we just received uses a B0 stepping SiS 655 North Bridge and B1 stepping SiS 963UA South Bridge. According to MSI, the new B-stepping 655 Max-FISR fully supports Intel?s Hyper Threading technology. We were quickly able to confirm this claim by checking the BIOS, which clearly illustrated an option for enabling or disabling "HT" (Hyper Threading). SiS has also confirmed to us that all motherboards with B0 stepping SiS 655 North Bridges fully support Hyper Threading."
Originally posted by: NFS4
Mine just came in today!! I can't belive that gigabyte doesn't put an I/O shield in their though!! BOOOOO
The shield from my 4G4A won't fit. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO gibabyte, BOOOOOOOOOO
I'll install it later today and report back