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High-End Memory Prices - Week of October 16, 2006 - Page 3By SharkyExtreme.com Staff October 16, 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. The Registered DDR listings were very similar to that of matched pair DDR, with one entry accounting for the majority of activity. In this case, the price of Corsair XMS PC3200 Registered 2x512-MB dropped by an amazing $126, which in the face of limited price increases to Corsair XMS PC3200 Registered 2x1-GB (+$35), Ultra PC3200 Registered 2x1-GB (+$15), and ATP PC3200 Registered 1-GB (+$15), contributed the most to the overall chart movement.
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