High-End DDR Memory Prices - Week of October 31, 2005 - Page 4

Single & Matched Pair DDR2

Intel has jumped on the DDR2 bandwagon, and the 925X/XE and 915P/G platforms can utilize this high-end memory. DDR has been transformed into DDR2 through the doubling of internal data bus, thereby allowing next-generation memory speeds of 533/667 MHz and above. The DDR2 market continues to grow, with more of the larger vendors jumping on board, and as the weeks pass, we expect that number to only grow.

We're also concentrating mainly on DDR2-533 and DDR2-667 modules, although higher-end DDR2-800 and DDR2-1000 are just starting to emerge. DDR2 has moved beyond the niche market stage, but it will take some time (and AMD jumping on board) before it becomes the de facto memory standard.

There is again a lot of pricing movement in the DDR2 memory chart, but this is also a mixture of price increases and decreases. There were a total of nine DDR2 listings that fell by double-digits, although a $24 cut to OCZ DDR2-667 Gold 2x1-GB was the largest of the bunch. The others ranged from -$10 to -$19, and there was none of the "wild west" kind of price drops we've become used to in the DDR2 market. There were also two large price increases, with both of these hitting Crucial Ballistix 2x1-GB dual channel kits. The aggregate chart drop was better than our last update (a measly -$3), and at -$97, almost reached the century mark.

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