Difference between MKS boards

Two questions to help me understand:

1. Is there a distinctive list of what's the difference between mks v1.1, mks v1.2 and v1.3?

2. Am I understanding this correctly between these two example boards (forget the mks version difference on them)?:

The first board has the driver controller for the steppers integrated so it can run steppers right out of the box?
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vs

This board that has no drivers included and would have to buy them separately? Which means out of the box you can NOT run steppers at all?
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/26/2015 08:47PM by gatorNic.

You are correct.

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Viper97
You are correct.

Cool thanks!

Just remember, sometimes modular is better, that way you can just have a spare stepper controller hanging around and not have to buy an entirely new board because it's an all-in-one solution.

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Viper97
Just remember, sometimes modular is better, that way you can just have a spare stepper controller hanging around and not have to buy an entirely new board because it's an all-in-one solution.

Yeah I was thinking the same thing.