Why all the $$ for PC2100?

[Titanion]

Searching newegg last night, with just Corsair Value Ram, PC2100 was priced way higher than PC3200... what the heck... PC3200 is backwards compatible at even greater timings...

<font color=red><b>NF7-S/Mobile Barton 2600+
211x11.5 1.808v SLK900A
1GB Corsair XMS PC3200
Sapphire 9500np@9700np</font color=red><font color=black>
NF7-S/Barton 2500+
200x11.5 1.76v
512MB XMS PC2700
XFX Ti4200

 

[Crashman]

Some old BIOS doesn't recognise the SPD values properly on PC3200 and prevents boot, meaning people often have to do a BIOS update in order to use PC3200 as PC2100. What's more, people DON'T KNOW the PC2700, for example (since there's usually no BIOS problem), is backwards compatable. In fact, companies used to buy PC133 and RELABLE it PC100 for the same reason.

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<font color=red>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to an ego as large as Crashman's!</font color=red>

 

[Crashman]

Oh, I just realized I could have summed it up in 2 words: "Sucker Tax"

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<font color=red>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to an ego as large as Crashman's!</font color=red>

 

[Titanion]

Ya, I have been trying to get a friend who is the tech director for my school district to sell me two sticks of Kingston 256MB PC2100 ram for $25 each, but he wants $38 each... I am just going to buy one stick of PC3200 512MB Corsair Value Ram for $90 and use it in my mother's computer... the life span will be so much greater...

<font color=red><b>NF7-S/Mobile Barton 2600+
211x11.5 1.808v SLK900A
1GB Corsair XMS PC3200
Sapphire 9500np@9700np</font color=red><font color=black>
NF7-S/Barton 2500+
200x11.5 1.76v
512MB XMS PC2700
XFX Ti4200