Ordered Biostar TP43 and got TP45 from Newegg

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For some reason when I was shopping at Newegg I couldn't find the TP45 HP board so I settled for the TP43. The next day I found the TP45 on Newegg it was just that they scrunched the letter together "TP45HP" so I couldn't search for just "TP45." Anyways I was pretty bummed.

So I got the motherboard and the printing on the board itself reads TP45 HP. How crazy is that? Anyways I was just wondering in the case that the board was DOA (still waiting for my 4870) would I get hassled since I ordered a TP43 and received a TP45?
 
I say keep your mouth shut if it's ok. If it is DOA, then let them know about the error. So that means test it quick.
 
Juggafat said:
So I got the motherboard and the printing on the board itself reads TP45 HP.
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How was the antistatic bag sealed?

I'm asking because I just received a TP45 HP from Newegg and the CPU socket pin protector wasn't installed in the socket. It's floating around loose in the antistatic bag. I was like WTF!?!?! so I haven't even opened it. Worse yet, my antistatic bag is sealed with a single piece of regular cellophane tape. All of my recent boards have been sealed with some type of sticker or label so this has me extra suspicious.

I haven't opened the bag yet. I think I'll post a thread about it and then chat with someone at Newegg before I open it.
 
Everything was perfectly in order....I did notice that they sealed the bag with cheap tape. In my past experience they usually use like a red vinyl type of tape. But yeah I'm pretty happy cause now i have the ability to crossfire and the board isnt DOA.
 
Juggafat said:
Everything was perfectly in order....I did notice that they sealed the bag with cheap tape. In my past experience they usually use like a red vinyl type of tape. But yeah I'm pretty happy cause now i have the ability to crossfire and the board isnt DOA.
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Ok, thanks.
 
what did the box (or CPU-Z etc.) say it is?
often mobo manufacturers reuse the same PCB across several variants to keep costs down.
 
It's def a TP45...has the crossfire jumpers on the board and I doubt they would label a TP43 PCB with TP45
 
They just did the same thing to (for) me! I ordered a TP43HP for a customer, and received a TP45HP. The bag was sealed with cellophane tape.

What a waste of a TP45HP. It's going in an office machine. :rolleyes:
 
Ok yeah I just looked at the box and Biostar is accidentally putting TP45's into TP43 boxes. The serial# sticker says TP43.
 
Hey you're right! It does say TP43 HP on the sticker on the box!

P43/ICH10, LGA775, ATX, FSB1600, Dual DDR2-1066, etc...

Funny thing though. If you look at the number above the UPC barcode, it says IP43BA7T-R01, but if you look at the number below the ID bardoce it says IP45BA7T-01. Weird.

Somebody messed up. I wonder where all the P43 boards are going?
 
Just noticed on Newegg, the TP43HP is on "auto-notify". Meaning they found out about it, or sold out. Rats.
 
It supports more memory. A P43 supports a max of 8GB while a P45 supports 16GB which is pretty sweet. And you get dual LAN as well, depending on which board you get.
 
John Vuong said:
It supports more memory. A P43 supports a max of 8GB while a P45 supports 16GB which is pretty sweet. And you get dual LAN as well, depending on which board you get.
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well considering that there are only 4 memory slots, and 4gb sticks are expensive as hell, you'll probably only max out at 8gb anyways(4 x 2gb).

The main difference is P45's support splitting of the pcie lanes into 2 pci-e 8x lanes for crossfire, where as on a P43 you can't.
 
Juggafat said:
Iand I doubt they would label a TP43 PCB with TP45
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well iirc an Asus P5N32 uses a Striker PCB, abit IP35 & IP35-E use same PCB etc. etc. - usually they just screenprint 1 & then stick a label over that for the other.

if you have as per pic then you've won a watch, congrats.

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the TP43 board is fsb limited to around 420

while the TP45 is capable of reports 575+
 
BUFF said:
well iirc an Asus P5N32 uses a Striker PCB, abit IP35 & IP35-E use same PCB etc. etc. - usually they just screenprint 1 & then stick a label over that for the other.

if you have as per pic then you've won a watch, congrats.

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Yeah I def have the P45...the main diff are the red jumpers in between the pci-e slots.
 
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