Intel has a long history of jumping on the bandwagon of emerging memory technologies, with these jumps ending in both success and failure. With the Intel P35 and G33 chipsets, the chip giant has formally adopted high-speed DDR3 memory in the 1066 to 1600 MHz range. This is an interesting move, and one accelerated by AMD and their powerful integrated memory controller. AMD is not making the move to DDR3 with their current Phenom platform, but will for the next-generation, so this market will Intel-only in the foreseeable future. Due to this, there are still fewer DDR3 modules on the open market, with most of these coming from the major players. The most popular DDR3 configurations are single 1GB/2GB modules or 2x1GB/2x2GB matched pair kits, and DDR3 clock speeds range from 1066 MHz to 2000 MHz.
After a bit of a slowdown in the DDR3 market, we got back on track last week, shaving another $462 off the overall total. This update brings more of the same, including thirteen price cuts that hit at least double digits, and one that actually reached triple digits. This last drop was a $155 cut to OCZ Titanium DDR3-1600 2x1-GB, and Crucial Ballistix DDR3-1600 2x1-GB (-$64), Kingston HyperX DDR3-1800 2x1-GB (-$39) and Kingston HyperX DDR3-1625 2x1-GB (-$38) also showed very healthy price drops. A $10 jump to the price of Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1600 DHX 2x1-GB was the only increase of note, and the chart fell by an aggregate total of $449.
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