A belated ZipZoomFly rant

[Stereodude]

So, back in March of 2008 I bought a Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4 motherboard from ZipZoomFly for $169.99. Much to my surprise over the weekend (20 months later) I noticed that I actually got a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 motherboard from them. *sigh*

I guess I should have paid closer attention. However, I don't see any difference between them from the specs. :-?

 

[LunarMist]

Photo is the same. Perhaps one is a better model and they gave you the cheaper one? The question is whether it is working fine or not.

 

[Stereodude]

Well, the EP35 is newer than the P35. The board is working fine aside from the goofy PCIe lane split / configuration.

 

[LunarMist]

I have the EP35-DS3R and EP45-UD3P. There are so many similar models for Core 2 CPUs I don't know the differences. :scratch: I mainly got the EP45 board because I could not get over 4GHz with a quad core on the EP35. The EP35 is fine for dual core at 4.2, but lacked the LLC of the EP45. I'm only using a 4-lane card in the 2nd video slot on the EP45, so there is no issue with using the other 1x slots.

What does the E mean - Extra, Enhanced, Economy?

 

[MaxBurn]

If I line up the two website pages cited I see no difference at all except for some additional overclocking stuff on the P35. Maybe just a mid run manufacturing difference that warranted a name change instead of a revision?

 

[Stereodude]

It would be nice if all the fancy power saving features still worked while the system was overclocked. *sigh*