High-End Memory Prices - Week of July 9, 2007 - Page 6

Single-Module and Matched Pair DDR3

Intel has a long history of jumping on the bandwagon of emerging memory technologies, with both success and failure. With the Intel P35 and G33 chipsets, the chip giant has formally adopted high-speed DDR3 memory in the 1066 to 1333 MHz range. This is an interesting move, and one accelerated by AMD and their powerful integrated memory controller. AMD is not making the move to DDR3 with their next-generation Phenom platform, so at the least for the foreseeable future, this market will Intel-only. Due to this, there are few DDR3 modules on the open market, with vast majority from memory giants Corsair and Kingston. The most popular DDR3 configurations are single 1GB modules or 2x1GB matched pair kits, and DDR3 clock speeds range from 1066 MHz to 1375 MHz.

This is only the second week that DDR3 finds a home in our High-End Memory Price Guide, so there is still very little in the way of pricing trends. We did manage to add another 1GB Kingston module, but otherwise the chart list was remarkably stable. In terms of price changes, the majority of DDR3 modules and kits remained static, but Kingston HyperX DDR3-1375 2x512MB fell by $26 and Kingston HyperX DDR3-1375 2x1GB had $22 shaved off it retail price. This helped contribute to a very respectable aggregate chart drop of $54, and hopefully this will be just the tip of the DDR3 iceberg.

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Page 1 High-End Memory Prices - Week of July 9, 2007 Page 2 Matched Pair DDR Prices Page 3 Registered DDR/DDR2 Prices Page 4 Single Module DDR2 Prices Page 5 Matched Pair DDR2 Prices Page 6 Single Module & Matched Pair DDR3 Prices Page 7 High-End DDR, DDR2 and DDR3 Sorted by Price Change Page 8 High-End DDR, DDR2 and DDR3 Sorted by Price

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