High-End DDR Memory Prices - Week of June 14, 2004 - Page 3

Registered DDR

The desktop market for registered DDR begins and ends with the Athlon 64 FX-based platforms. This is due to its Opteron-based lineage, and the Athlon 64 FX requires registered DDR, rather than standard unbuffered DDR. It has created a market need for 400 MHz PC3200 Registered DDR, and several manufacturers have jumped in to supply this enthusiast market. Due to the lower number of available registered DDR modules, we've gone a bit outside the Top 5 manufacturers, and also listed both the single module and matched pair PC3200 DDR prices. This is still mostly a niche market for desktop buyers, so overall vendor and module choice may be limited for the near future.

AMD's Socket 939 is here, and the new platform brings with it the power of Socket 940, but with the benefit of affordable, compatible, and industry-standard unbuffered DDR. We expect this will impact both the price and availability of Registered DDR, as well as moving it into a niche market in the future. But for now we're continuing to report prices, and they were all over the map this week. There were a few price cuts, but these were overtaken by similar price increases, the most noticeable of which hit the Corsair XMS PC3200 Registered 2x512-MB kit very hard.

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