High-End Memory Prices - Week of December 8, 2008 - Page 4

Single Module DDR2

DDR2 memory is now the default format, and it offers standard memory speeds of 533/667/800/1000/1066/1200 MHz and above. Intel was the first to jump on the DDR2 bandwagon, with the 900-Series desktop platforms all utilizing this high-speed memory. With the release of the AM2/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, -1066, and -1200 speeds, as well as module sizes from 512-MB to 2-GB.

While DDR2 memory usually shows slightly lower prices, most of this activity continues to be centered on the matched pair sector. Nothing's really changed this week, and we again see a very nominal $6 overall chart drop. The largest price shift was an increase, as the Kingston HyperX DDR2-1200 1GB module jumped by $15. This was tempered by a larger selection of smaller price drops, the biggest of which was only a $7 price cut to the Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 1GB module.

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Page 1 High-End Memory Prices - Week of December 8, 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 and Dual/Tri-Channel 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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