Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3: Buy rev 4.1 or rev 5.0?

[tommy14]

Hello,
My local Microcenter has the Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 in stock in both revision 4.1 and 5.0. Does anyone know which one is better?
Thanks.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Go for the newest Revision.

 

[tommy14]

Go for the newest Revision.

Thanks for your reply. Normally, I would agree with you, but Gigabyte still makes all three versions, 4.1, 5.0, and 6.0. It's not like the next version replaced the earlier one. But still I'm concerned that there might be a problem with rev 5, in particular the sound, because all the specs in rev 6 seem to be the same as rev 5, except for the sound chip:

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/comparison/list.aspx?ck=2&pids=5195,4602,4305

Originally, rev 4.1 had a Realtek sound chip. But that was changed to VIA in rev 5 (along with a change in theUSB chip), but they went back to Realtek in rev 6. So I'm thinking maybe there was a problem with the sound in rev 5 that was fixed in rev 6 by changing to the Realtek chip.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Go with what your comfortable with , weigh the options , I always go to newest revision.

 

[tommy14]

Go with what your comfortable with , weigh the options , I always go to newest revision.

Thanks again for your reply. I think I'll go with rev 5 (unless I find a version 6 at the store). There's only one BIOS version so no possibility of needing to upgrade using a another CPU first, before being able to run my CPU. the FX8320.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Good point ^