High-End Memory Prices - Week of March 20, 2006 - Page 3

Registered DDR

The standard 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, if only for platform memory upgrades. It was a relatively sedate week for Registered DDR prices, but there was some movement, including a pair of double-digit cuts. The price of ATP PC3200 Registered 1-GB fell $23 and Kingston PC3200 Registered 2x512-MB dropped by $10, while there were no significant price increases to report. The aggregate chart drop of $30 was well back of the $155 total decrease we had in our last update, but is still better news than rising prices.

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Page 1 High-End Memory Prices - Week of March 20, 2006 Page 2 Matched Pair DDR Prices Page 3 Registered DDR Prices Page 4 Single Module DDR2 Prices Page 5 Matched Pair DDR2 Prices Page 6 High-End DDR and DDR2 Sorted by Price Change Page 7 High-End DDR and DDR2 Sorted by Price

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