High-End DDR Memory Prices - Week of December 26, 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.

The DDR2 memory listings continued to one of the most active in our guide, but once again, this doesn't always equate into lower prices. Certainly there were some deals, such as Crucial Ballistix DDR2-667 2x1-GB (-$42), Mushkin DDR2-533 2x1-GB (-$20), and Crucial Ballistix DDR2-667 1-GB (-$18), but there were also some significant price increases to deal with. The big one was a $95 jump to the price of Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1000 2x1-GB, which helped contribute to a very limited $24 aggregate chart drop.

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