The manual says G3, but the board says G2. Help!

You have a G3 board.

LOR was going to call the new controllers Gen2. However, the software was at S3 so they thought it would be good to get things in sync and have G3 controllers and S3 software.

Unfortunately the silkscreen on the green cards reads the original name for the card “CTB16PCG2” because of an oversight.

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