DDR has been transformed into DDR2 through the doubling of internal data bus, thereby allowing next-generation memory speeds of 533/667/800/1000 MHz and above, and Intel was the first to jump on the DDR2 bandwagon, with the 975X, 955X, 945X, 925X/XE and 915P/G platforms all utilizing this high-end memory. With the release of the AM2 platform, AMD has also joined the DDR2 camp, and this will slowly transform DDR2 into the new memory standard. The DDR2 market continues to expand, with more of the larger vendors jumping on board, we expect capacities and speeds to only increase. As far as the pricing chart goes, this chart looks specifically at single module DDR2, and keeps to the standard DDR2-533, -667, -800, and -1000 speeds, as well as module sizes from 512-MB to 1-GB.
The DDR2 memory charts have been extremely volatile over the past month or two, with significant price increases hitting all brands, speeds and types of DDR2 memory. Our last single-module DDR2 update showed this trend slowing down a bit, and this week it is even reversing itself. Our chart shows an aggregate chart decrease of $78, which is not that significant by itself, but is great news compared to the wild $300+ total chart increases we witnessed in September. Price movement was also more even, with Mushkin DDR2-533 Pro 1-GB (-$38), OCZ DDR2-800 Platinum 1-GB (-$21), OCZ DDR2-1000 Platinum 1-GB (-$21), and Crucial Ballistix DDR2-667 1-GB (-$15) representing the double-digit price drops. There were only three similar price increases, including Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 1-GB (+$18), OCZ DDR2-1000 Gold 1-GB (+$12), and OCZ DDR2-900 Platinum 1-GB (+$10).
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