is the ic7 g and the ic7g max 2 the same thing?

i notice that just about evey retailer is selling 4 ic7 motherboards from abit...

newegg sells firstly
the ic7 which is the cheapest...
then they sell the ic7 G max 2
finally they sell the ict G max 3

Zipzoomfly on the other hand sells
the ic7
then the ic7 G
and then the ic7g max 3

my questi nis is the ic7g and the ic7gmax the same thing but retailers are calling them different things???

I've been wondering that too. Have you checked the Abit site? I'll do that right now.

http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/

All it shows under socket 478 is this (copy and paste):

Intel® 875P - DDR - IC7-G - IC7-MAX3 - IC7

I guess it's the same thing.

update audiman they are the same thing. after readig your post, i went back to look at the pictures that newegg had for the ic7 g max 2... and the box of it siply say's ic7 g... so there you go, newegg is just naming them differently i guess...

The Ic7 has no on board lan. The Ic7G Does....but the ic7gmax is a typo. it doesnt exist. But the ic7 MAX 3 does exist and it has everything that the other 2 do and a fan and shroud for the capacitors and mosfets. So there you go.

Yep the Max-2 has LAN and two additional SATA ports. It also mentions being Prescott ready, though I seem to remember ppl running Prescotts on the IC7 too....I dunno.

AC