The code things are easy. Standard code wheels The one that says 98 99 00 01 has an arrow which poits to the Year. The one that says 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 X Y Z Has an arrow which points to the Month (1 is Jan, Z is December) The one that says USA MULTI JPN has an arrow which points to region (MULTI is Europe) The other one I guess might be motherboard revision? My unit was received the day before release in the UK so it is the earliest revision you could get here.