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High-End Memory Prices - Week of November 26, 2007 - Page 3By SharkyExtreme.com Staff November 26, 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 limited 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. Registered DDR/DDR2 price levels may not be dropping off the table, but it's better news than the last two DDR charts. There were actually two price drops that hit double digits, such as the WINTEC PC2-5300 FB-DIMM 2-GB (-$26) and Kingston PC2-5300 FB-DIMM 2-GB (-$10) modules. There was also one similar price increase, as Corsair PC2-5300 FB-DIMM 2-GB jumped by $10, but that was as far as the price spikes went. The overall chart dropped by $30, which was okay, but still far removed from the -$75 we posted last time out.
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