High-End Memory Prices - Week of December 22, 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 512MB to 2GB.

While DDR2 memory continues to display slightly lower prices, the majority of activity is still centered in the matched pair DDR2 area. We don't see a lot of change this week, and the largest price decrease is only a $10 drop to the Mushkin DDR2-800 C4 2GB module. There were quite a few individual price cuts, affecting well over half the listings, but a pair of price increases headed off any real downward trend. Kingston's HyperX DDR2-1000 1GB and HyperX DDR2-1200 1GB modules jumped by $12 and $14, respectively, and lowered the overall chart drop to only $26.

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Page 1 High-End Memory Prices - Week of December 22, 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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