High-End DDR Memory Prices - Week of January 9, 2006 - 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.

We expected the DDR2 price cuts to storm back with a vengeance, after our last update showed an almost even distribution of price cuts and spikes, leading to a slight upward movement in the overall chart. This time, the aggregate chart shift is moving in the right direction, but it only dropped by $77, which is certainly nothing to get too excited about. Individual cuts included Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1000 2x1-GB (-$28), OCZ DDR2-667 Platinum 2x512-MB (-$21), and Kingston HyperX DDR2-750 2x1-GB (-$12), while there was only one double-digit price increase, as Corsair Value DDR2-533 2x1-GB jumped by $12.

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