High-End Memory Prices - Week of April 17, 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. In our last update, the Registered DDR chart posted a very surprising aggregate drop of over $100, and this time, we come very close with a $96 decrease. Overall pricing activity was pretty wild, as we had significant price drops like Crucial PC3200 Registered 2-GB (-$75), Crucial PC3200 Registered 2x1-GB (-$31), and Kingston PC3200 Registered 512-MB (-$24), while on the other end of the scale, the price of Corsair XMS PC3200LL Registered 2x512-MB jumped by $33.

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Page 1 High-End Memory Prices - Week of April 17, 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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