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Memory Prices - Week of December 6, 2004 - Page 2By Vangie Beal December 6, 2004SDRAMThis week brings several changes on SDRAM prices. Those looking to upgrade PC133 ECC 512-MB will save $2 over our last price guide, but this is also our only price drop for this week on SDRAM. Several modules are up in price this week, but thankfully, the price increases are all smaller $1 and $2 changes. This week PC2100 modules show no price change, a couple of PC2700 modules are up in price by a dollar, and both PC3500 and PC3700 modules show no price changes this week. Those looking to save money need to head for PC3200 512-MB, which is down $3 to $70 or PC4200 256-MB which is selling for $82 - a $7 savings over last week. DDR2 memory is remarkably stable this week, with the only price change being an $8 increase on DDR2-533 512-MB. True to its history, RDRAM offers very little movement again this week. Two modules come in with a $1 price drop while PC800 ECC 512-MB bucks the trend slightly and drops $7 to $189. While it can look discouraging when very little price changes are charted on a week to week basis, trends are more noticeable over a yearly change, especially with RDRAM. In December of 2003, PC800 ECC 512-MB was selling for $208, and it's been a little while since this was over the $200 mark. It doesn't look like Santa, or anyone else for that matter, will be rushing out just yet to stock up with spectacular holiday system memory savings. Not a whole lot of individual modules have dropped in price (or gone up) by any large amount - which is good news unless you hope to catch a good price break to help keep the costs of upgrading low. As always we remind you to thoroughly read the fine print on any vendor's web site before making your purchase and don't forget to find out the shipping cost before you buy. So until next time, happy upgrading.
We'd like to take this opportunity to assure you that SharkyExtreme has no affiliation with any vendor listed in our guide, but our memory price charts do take more than just the basic dollar amount into consideration. Here are just a few examples to highlight some of the many things we keep in mind when compiling a price guide - which may translate into the price you see in our guide being different than one you find:
Since we don't have a direct line to every vendor doing business online, so if you know of a company selling quality products at decent prices that isn't making our price guide, feel free to drop us a line with the vendors URL, so we can check them out as well! Feedback (of any kind) on the Weekly Memory Prices is always read and appreciated! Until next week - happy upgrading!
Vangie"Aurora" Beal
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