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Memory Pricing Guide |
High-End Memory Prices - Week of October 1, 2007 - Page 4By SharkyExtreme.com Staff October 2, 2007DDR has given way to DDR2, thereby allowing next-generation memory speeds of 533/667/800/1000/1066/1200 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. Things were really humming along in the single-module DDR2 chart, and the return of the price cuts we noted in our last guide, seem to be continuing. The overall chart decrease was certainly aided by a huge $89 drop to the Mushkin Redline DDR2-1000 1-GB module, but four other listings fell by double digits, including Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1066 1-GB (-$20) and Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2-1066 1-GB (-$18). The news was good on the other side, as only a single listing increased in price, and that one was just a $2 jump to the WINTEC AMPX DDR2-1000 1-GB. The $192 aggregate chart drop was right in line with these figures, and almost on par with the $200 overall drop we posted last time out.
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