High-End DDR Memory Prices - Week of April 18, 2005 - 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.

The Socket 939 platform and its dual-channel DDR architecture has taken charge of the AMD enthusiast market, but Socket 940 and Registered DDR remain a market influence, especially for platform memory upgrades. Since the Athlon 64 FX transferred to DDR memory, we've been patiently waiting for significant price cuts to hit Registered DDR, and this week we finally hit pay dirt. There were tons of price drops, and the overall dollar movement rivaled that of dual-channel DDR, even though there are far fewer Registered DDR listings. ATP PC3200 Registered 1-GB fell a whopping $81, while Transcend PC3200 Registered 1-GB and ATP PC3200 Registered 512-MB both fell by $43. This is a great time to look for that Registered DDR upgrade, as some of these prices are now much lower than standard DDR.

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