High-End Memory Prices - Week of March 20, 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.

The single module DDR2 listings are more active than our last update, and the overall price drops are spread out more evenly. There were only two double-digits price cuts, as Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 512-MB and Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 1-GB both fell by $10, but there is a nice selection of smaller cuts through about half of the individual listings. There was a single price increase in the entire chart, and that was only a small $6 spike to Patriot eXtreme DDR2-700 1-GB. The overall chart movement amounted to a drop of $77, which is a slightly better result than our last update.

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