High-End Memory Prices - Week of May 29, 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 on the desktop side, if only for platform memory upgrades. When you also factor in the various high-end workstation and small server platforms that utilize this type of memory, you realize it's not going to be dropping off the map anytime soon. Overall, this was a terrible week for Registered DDR, as we found the overall chart movement totaled $141 in the positive column. A combination of no price drops, and some heavy increases accounted for the bad week, with the $74 price spike to Crucial PC3200 Registered 2x1-GB being the main culprit.

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Page 1 High-End Memory Prices - Week of May 29, 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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