High-End Memory Prices - Week of August 7, 2006 - Page 3

Registered DDR

The standard desktop market for registered DDR begins and ends with the Athlon 64 FX-based platforms, but there are a wide range of high-end workstation and small business servers that utilize this same memory format. Since the desktop market utilizes 400 MHz PC3200 Registered DDR, that is where we concentrate our price listings, and even though Socket 940 is just a fond memory, these continue to be an upgrade option for many desktop users. 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 upgrades, 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 Registered DDR remains an important market factor. Registered DDR was actually one of the more active sectors this week, and included the largest individual price drop, with Kingston HyperX PC3200 Registered 2x1-GB falling by $70. Unfortunately, there was equivalent activity on the price increase side of things, and the total chart movement evened out completely, and registered a $0 total change.

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Page 1 High-End Memory Prices - Week of August 7, 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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