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High-End Memory Prices - Week of January 22, 2007 - Page 3By SharkyExtreme.com Staff January 22, 2007The 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 chart listings held some very surprising results, and the overall chart drop of $252 was the largest in the entire guide. This is very unusual, since there are fewer Registered DDR entries compared to the other charts, but a huge $180 cut to the price of Crucial PC3200 Registered 2x2-GB makes this phenomenon easier to understand. Then again, other large price drops were present, such as Kingston Value PC3200 Registered 2-GB (-$31), Kingston PC3200 Registered 2x512-MB (-$22), and Crucial PC3200 Registered 2x1-GB (-$21) modules. There was also only a single price increase, but this was a more significant $30 spike to the cost of Crucial PC3200 Registered 2x512-MB.
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