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High-End Memory Prices - Week of November 13, 2006 - Page 3By SharkyExtreme.com Staff November 13, 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 showed definite price movement this week, and most of it was of the downward variety. Two of these reached double digits, as Crucial PC3200 Registered 2x1-GB (-$22) and Crucial PC3200 Registered 2-GB (-$19) offered a better deal this week. There was also a set of smaller price drops, and only two modules displayed any type of price increase. One was only a $1 jump, but unfortunately, the other was a whopping $141 spike to Corsair XMS PC3200 Registered 2x512-MB. This contributed to a total chart increase of $66.
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