High-End Memory Prices - Week of May 26, 2008 - Page 3

Registered DDR/FB-DIMM DDR2

In addition to the Athlon 64 FX Registered DDR platform, and the newer Intel XEON V8 and Skulltrail FB-DIMM configurations, there is a wide range of high-end workstation and small business servers that utilize these same memory formats. 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 influence of the XEON V8/Skulltrail plaforms, we continue to add FB-DIMM listings in the 1GB, 2x1GB and 2x2GB memory configurations. The lower number of available Registered/FB-DIMM modules also means we've gone a bit outside the top tier manufacturers.

Due to the limited desktop market for Registered DDR, and the emergence of the dual-CPU Intel XEON V8 and Skulltrail platforms, we continue to supplement these module listings with FB-DIMM DDR2. The Registered/FB-DIMM memory listings showed more activity than the DDR charts, and checked in with four price drops that hit double digits. A $53 cut to Crucial PC2-5300 FB-DIMM 2x4-GB was the most obvious change, but $30 off Crucial PC3200 Registered 2x1-GB and a $20 drop hitting Crucial PC2-6400 FB-DIMM 2x1-GB were also very nice. A pair of similar price increases spoiled the party a bit, but we still found an overall chart drop of $107, well up from the $18 decrease we posted the last time out.

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Page 1 High-End Memory Prices - Week of May 26, 2008 Page 2 Matched Pair DDR Prices Page 3 Registered DDR/FB-DIMM 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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