This is an excellent topic,

Thanks for bringing it up.

I have found some buyers will pay the same price for rainbow and and older p3 boards,

I've also found some buyers that will pay different on three basis,
1.Rainbow,
2.P4 boards not made in china
3.P3 and earlier

I understand that most P4 and Rainbow are from china, however, I've found a bunch made in the us only to be
put with the chi boards, is it really the socket that determine the value then.? More pins or the thickest of the pin socket. Like Pent pro sockets are big in pin sizes versus 478 p4 socket



so, yeah.. not sure.. and have not figured out why the difference.

Thanks for sharing the topic,