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Best Buy 512 MB PC2700 DDR 39.99 - After rebate.

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Is PC2700 backwards compatible with PC2100? In other words, can I put a stick of this in a PC2100 motherboard (with the obvious speed reduction)?
 
"For anyone how understands the Japanese language, could you please translate this page. It seems that they are using the same RAM chips as above."
babelfish translated it pretty good
 
Originally posted by: ww4397
I found the maker of the VT chips on my ram -- Kreton.

Anybody know anything about this company?
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Great detective work ww4397. A lot of folks have been trying to figure out who makes the VT memory chips. The first time I saw VT RAM was last year. Their site also says that Nanya makes elixir modules.

Here's some historic company info:

Company Highlights
1988 Kreton was established in May 1988
1989 Assign US agent - Viable Technology (formerly Vantron Technology)
1991 Authorized Agent of Hynix in Taiwan
1991 Established Hong Kong Branch--Unigate Corp.
1994 Developed VT parity IC with a total shipment of over 4KK pieces.
.........Developed single chip Video game IC with total shipments of over 4KK pieces in three years.
1995 Established Hsin-Chu production site, starting the DRAM backend operations.
.........Began manufacturing and marketing VT brand generic memory and module
.........Terminated Hynix agency
.........Established Europe Branch -Channel 2000 in Hamburg, Germany
1997 Established Taipei production Site
1999 ERP system installed
2001 Established USA Branch in Anaheim, California
2002 ISO 9001 Certified


 
Which "memtest" are you using? I found several programs called Memtest or variation thereof such as MemTest-86.
Any suggestion on what's the best way to find out if the RAM is OK?

I've had memeory modules work fine with one "software memory tester" but fail tests in another. Lately I've been using this one: http://www.memtest86.com/ it seems to do a better job at finding errors, unless those errors are false positives.
 
mine did nothing but fail on memtest. every best buy nearby me is sold out (this was the last one in Oxnard, i live in San Diego) SCREW THIS, i'm just returning it, not worht the hassle, i'm happy with 512mb i guess
 
Tested mine, was the PQI module. Average performance, I used "By Spd" (by stick specs?) setting on my NF7-S. Looks like it uses 6-3-3-2.5, (or maybe 3 for CAS, forgot the final numbers). Running fine at 333MHz, seems stable now, although when I was setting the timings manually, I would always get either tons of Memtest-86 errors, or long beeps on boot (meaning no boot at all). I am running this dual channel, with a wonderful Samsung PC2100 512MB stick which actually does PC2700 at 6-2-2-2 (got this stick > 1 year ago, cost me over $100).
Mixing these RAMs is probably not the best idea, but with dual channel, who cares, performance is decent enough, I'm keeping it. Just don't expect these sticks to do CAS2 @333MHz!
 
K-Byte is pretty cheap stuff. Deal might still be worth it if you hand pick the stick and find one that has decent brand chips(you can occasionally find a micron or samsung stick if you look hard enough. The other sticks will be elixir and lei or other cheap brands.)
 
Is this deal still valid?

I picked up a stick of it (PQI) and it works fine. I'm thinking of picking up another.
 
yeah, memtest86 v. 3.0 is what I use. Made it through about 6 passes, standard tests. Maybe 3 hrs total time
 
I managed to pick up a stick of this. It isn't the best RAM in the world. I was *almost* unable to get it running at 333 until I tuned down a ton of settings (I forget what I exactly have it set at). I almost wanted to return it, but I guess I'll end up keeping it ($40 is really hard to beat). The 256 Samsung stick I had in there ran awsome. I guess it goes to show you pay for quality.

-Raptor
 
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