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High-End Memory Prices - Week of October 2, 2006 - Page 3By SharkyExtreme.com Staff October 2, 2006The 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. High-end workstation and small server platforms utilize this type of memory, so Registered DDR continues to be an important market factor. Registered DDR might not have the same number of listings as the DDR and DDR2 charts, but a total chart increase of $145 definitely shows off the trend in this area. There was not a single price drop that hit $10 or higher, while we found four that increased by $25 or more. Two of these were quite large, as Buffalo PC3200 Registered 2x1-GB and Corsair XMS PC3200 Registered 2x1-GB both jumped by $40 or more.
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