Marc Roberts » new hardware http://marcroberts.info Developer & Web Nut Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:08:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Spot the difference http://marcroberts.info/2009/11/spot-the-difference/ http://marcroberts.info/2009/11/spot-the-difference/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:21:32 +0000 marcroberts http://marcroberts.info/?p=63 revision to a motherboard is only a minor change, think again]]> I needed to purchase a new motherboard to go in my Silverstone LC11 based HTPC. This case is rather slim and therefore has quite complex requirements on the motherboard it can take, the expansions slots have to be in the right places (see FAQ 3) and it also had to accept the Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 CPU I have spare to go in there.

After some time consuming searching I finally found a motherboard that met all the criteria and was in stock, the Gigabyte GA-EQ45M-S2 so I went ahead and ordered one.

This is what the product image looked like when I ordered it:

GA-EQ45M-S2 Rev1

GA-EQ45M-S2 Rev1

This is what I got when I opened the box:

GA-EQ45M-S2 Rev2

GA-EQ45M-S2 Rev2

Can you spot the difference ?

Well, it turns out Scan ran out of stock of these at the end of October and ordered new ones, which turned out to be revision 2 boards, and had not updated the image on their website.

Thankfully the customer service was excellent at Scan and I’ve got an RMA number already. Now all I have to do is track down another motherboard that matches the criteria.

Who goes and moves the expansion slots around on a revision to an existing board, I wonder if anyone else has been caught out by this ?

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