DDR has given way to DDR2, thereby allowing next-generation memory speeds of 533/667/800/1000/1066 MHz and above, and Intel was the first to jump on the DDR2 bandwagon, with the 975X, P965, 955X, 945X, 925X/XE and 915P/G platforms all utilizing this high-end memory. With the release of the AM2 platform, AMD joined the DDR2 camp, and this has transformed DDR2 into the current memory standard for new system purchases. The DDR2 market continues to evolve and expand, with all of the larger vendors jumping on board. Capacities and speeds are also increasing and some innovative module designs are starting to appear. As far as the price listings go, this chart looks specifically at single-module DDR2, and keeps to the standard DDR2-667, -800, -1000,and -1066 speeds, as well as module sizes from 512-MB to 1-GB.
The first two months of the new year have been extremely good for DDR2 buyers, and after some upward price movement at the end of 2006, this is welcome news. This week, we see the lower price movement continuing, and single-module DDR showed an aggregate chart decrease of $127. This is slightly back of the $267 and $256 overall chart drops of our last two price updates, but there was no way this trend could keep up that kind of pace. The most significant price decreases included OCZ DDR2-1000 Gold 1-GB (-$41), OCZ DDR2-1100 Gold 1-GB (-$24) and WINTEC AMPX DDR2-1000 1-GB (-$22). There was also some bad news, in the form of two double-digit price increases, but as in our other charts, this was just Crucial raising memory prices again.
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