Market grade memory?

[chadspur]

Hey folks, I've been shopping around for ddr2 667 for a Biostar GF7050V-M7 motherboard and e2180 cpu. I saw a good price over at http://www.1stchoicememory.com

http://www.1stchoicememory.com...g/products.asp?ID=2232

$21.50 for a 2GB chip, but its description is "broker quality".

Would this work for my system? Has anyone used this website and bought "broker quality"? Reseller ratings has a bunch of great reviews for the store itself.

 

[CalvinHobbes]

In my opinion you're much better off getting some well known brand from a well known company. Check out Newegg or TigerDirect. It's going to be a little more expensive but it's worth it.

 

[tcsenter]

What they are calling 'market grade' is not compatible with NVIDIA chipsets, anyway. Note the remark about VIA and SIS, this means 4-bit wide DRAM components, which are only compatible with a small handful of chipsets (none of which are NVIDIA).

You might as well get DDR2-800 since its only $1 or $2 more and will operate at DDR2-667. Either of these would be fine:

http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=D2-2G800EL

http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=D2-2G800AE

 

[chadspur]

Originally posted by: tcsenter
What they are calling 'market grade' is not compatible with NVIDIA chipsets, anyway. Note the remark about VIA and SIS, this means 4-bit wide DRAM components, which are only compatible with a small handful of chipsets (none of which are NVIDIA).

You might as well get DDR2-800 since its only $1 or $2 more and will operate at DDR2-667. Either of these would be fine:

http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=D2-2G800EL

http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=D2-2G800AE

Whew! Thanks.

Went ahead and pulled the trigger on a Crucial 1x2GB kit at Frys.com

http://shop2.frys.com/product/...sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

Cheaper than the generic memory that wouldn't have worked. $19.99 after rebate!