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High-End Memory Prices - Week of February 5, 2007 - Page 3By SharkyExtreme.com Staff February 5, 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. Last time out, the Registered DDR chart held a few surprises, and posted an overall chart drop of $252 - the largest in the entire guide. An even bigger surprise welcomed us into February, and Registered DDR listings dropped by an aggregate total of $371. That result is simply astounding, especially given how small the chart is, but when Crucial PC3200 Registered 2x512-MB drops by $130, Crucial PC3200 Registered 2x512-MB fell by $66, ad Crucial PC3200 Registered 2x1-GB received a $58 price cut, the overall numbers start making sense. Obviously, it's Crucial leading the way, with the top four cuts, and without those, we have a more sedate $72 chart decrease.
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