High-End Memory Prices - Week of February 16, 2009 - Page 7

Triple-Channel DDR3

The emergence of the Intel Core i7 processor and X58 chipset brought with it a very powerful triple-channel DDR3 onboard memory controller, and many vendors welcomed this new architecture with a series of triple-channel, or matched triplets, DDR3 kits. This allowed buyers of the Core i7/X58 platform to purchase three matched DDR3 modules, without the added expense and potential risk of combining a dual-channel kit with a single module. In this market, the most popular triple-channel DDR3 configurations are the 3x1GB and 3x2GB kits, running at DDR3 clock speeds from 1333 MHz to 2000 MHz.

This marks the first time we've split out the triple-channel DDR3 listings into a separate page, and even though the returning entries make up less than half the chart, there were still seven price drops in the double-digit range. OCZ Platinum DDR3-1333 3x2GB shaved off $71, while the OCZ Reaper DDR3-1866 3x2GB and Corsair Dominator DDR3-1866 3x2GB kits dropped by $56 and $43, respectively. There was only a single increase, and that was just a $4 jump to the price of the OCZ Platinum DDR3-1866 3x2GB triple-channel kit. The overall trends swung firmly in the direction of the consumer, with the chart registering an aggregate drop of $245.

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Page 1 High-End Memory Prices - Week of February 16, 2009 Page 2 Dual-Channel DDR Prices Page 3 Registered DDR/FB-DIMM DDR2 Prices Page 4 Single Module DDR2 Prices Page 5 Dual-Channel DDR2 Prices Page 6 Dual-Channel DDR3 Prices Page 7 Triple-Channel DDR3 Prices Page 8 High-End DDR, DDR2 and DDR3 Sorted by Price Change Page 9 High-End DDR, DDR2 and DDR3 Sorted by Price

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