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High-End Memory Prices - Week of October 30, 2006 - Page 3By SharkyExtreme.com Staff October 31, 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. After the demise of Socket 940, Registered DDR may not be a significant market factor for standard desktops anymore, but keep in mind that high-end workstation and small server platforms still utilize this type of memory. The Registered DDR listings were very active over the last few weeks, and there were a whopping eight price drops that hit double-digits - quite a feat for the smallest chart in our guide. The aggregate chart drop is an impressive $145, and the largest individual drops were Crucial PC3200 Registered 2x1-GB (-$36), Crucial PC3200 Registered 2x512-MB (-$23), and Kingston Value PC3200 Registered 2-GB (-$23). There was only a single price increase of any kind, although we would classify the $27 spike to OCZ PC3200 Registered 1-GB as on the large side.
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