High-End Memory Prices - Week of May 2, 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. In our last edition, we noted a series of heavy price cuts hitting our list of Registered DDR, and although it has slowed down, the total price cut easily surpassed $125. OCZ PC3200 Registered 1-GB accounted for a nice percentage of that total with a $43 drop, but Corsair XMS PC3200LL Registered 2x512-MB (-$17), PQI TURBO PC3200 Registered 2x1-GB (-$17), and Corsair XMS PC3200LL Registered 512-MB (-$12) also chimed in with some noticeable cuts. Just as in our last update, this is another great time to look for that Registered DDR upgrade, as some of these prices are now below that of standard DDR.

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