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Memory Pricing Guide |
High-End Memory Prices - Week of February 4, 2008 - Page 4By SharkyExtreme.com Staff February 7, 2008DDR 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. Over the past few memory guides, we have noticed that DDR2 price drops are slowing down, especially on the single-module chart. This week the news gets even worse, and instead of meager drops, we have a few significant price increases. There was a pair of price cuts that hit double digits, including Crucial Ballistix TR DDR2-1066 1-GB (-$19) and Kingston HyperX DDR2-900 1-GB (-$18), but these were overshadowed by price increases to OCZ DDR2-1000 Gold 1-GB (+$41), OCZ DDR2-1000 Titanium 1-GB (+$46) and OCZ DDR2-1100 Gold 1-GB (+$46). The overall chart followed this pattern, and displayed an aggregate increase of $80.
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