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.
The DDR3 memory chart continues to be the place where we find the majority of price drops, although we don't have the same wild triple-digit cuts this week. The best we could muster was $64 shaved from Super Talent DDR3-1800 2x1GB, and $50 off both the OCZ Platinum DDR3-1800 2x1GB and OCZ Titanium DDR3-1600 2x2GB matched pair kits. Overall, there were ten DDR3 listings that received double-digit price drops, but there were also three similar price increases, including a $26 spike to Kingston HyperX DDR3-1800 2x1GB. The overall chart again showed a nice triple-digit decrease, with it falling by an aggregate total of $297.
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