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High-End Memory Prices - Week of October 15, 2007 - Page 3By SharkyExtreme.com Staff October 15, 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. We have also started to slowly add in Registered DDR2 listings, and we're sticking the DDR2-667 to DDR2-800 range in 1GB, 2x1GB and 2x2GB memory configurations. Due to the shrinking desktop market for Registered DDR, we continue to supplement these with module listings for Registered/FB-DIMM DDR2. This will be a slow process, and we hope the result is an even mix of both workstation/server-based memory types. Three of the Registered DDR/DDR2 price drops managed to hit double-digits, including Corsair PC3200 Registered 512-MB (-$49), Transcend PC3200 Registered 512-MB (-$21) and Kingston PC2-6400 Registered 2x1-GB (-$20). Nothing came close in terms of price increases, and the largest was only a $7 jump to the price of Crucial PC3200 Registered 2x2-GB. There was no surprise in the overall chart trends, as Registered DDR/DDR2 posted an aggregate drop of $89.
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