High-End Memory Prices - Week of February 6, 2006 - Page 4

Single Module DDR2

DDR has been transformed into DDR2 through the doubling of internal data bus, thereby allowing next-generation memory speeds of 533/667/800 MHz and above, and Intel was the first to jump on the DDR2 bandwagon, with the 975X, 955X, 945X, 925X/XE and 915P/G platforms all utilizing this high-end memory.. The DDR2 market continues to expand, with more of the larger vendors jumping on board, and as the weeks pass, we expect that number to only grow. AMD is also slated to join the DDR2 camp sometime in 2006, and at that point, DDR2 will become the de facto memory for desktop PCs. As far as the pricing chart goes, we are looking specifically at single module DDR2, and keeping to the standard DDR2-533, -667, -800, and -1000 speeds, as well as module sizes from 512-MB to 1-GB.

This price update is the first where we split up the single module and matched pair DDR2 listings into two separate charts, and due to this, we've added quite a few new entries. This helped mute the overall chart movement, but even so, the single module DDR2 listing dropped by a total of $76. There were some juicy individual cuts in this area as well, such as Kingston HyperX DDR2-750 512-MB (-$31), Kingston HyperX DDR2-750 1-GB (-$12), Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 512-MB (-$10), and Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 1-GB (-$10). There was only a single price increase to reach double digits, as Mushkin DDR2-667 1-GB rose by $11.

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