Price Gulf between DDR2 and DDR3 Widening
Price Gulf between DDR2 and DDR3 Widening
Posted 07/20/2009 at 4:39pm
| by Pulkit Chandna
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The schism between DDR3 and DDR2 spot prices is widening. According to market research firm inSpectrum, although memory module and graphics card vendors made a lot of inquiries for DDR3 during the last week (July 13-17), transaction volumes remained low due to limited stocks. The market’s bullishness helped the price of DDR3 to continue its upward trends while price of DDR2 continued to fall with cussed consistency, with the price of 1GB effectively tested (eTT) chips even dropping below $1.
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skhills
July 21, 2009 at 9:57pm
GDDR5 is memory used soley for graphics. It only runs as fast as it does because it sits within inches of the GPU. It wouldn't work on DIMMS for CPUs and sacrifices capacity for bandwidth.
tkddan87
July 21, 2009 at 4:09am
woot! cheap ddr2 upgrades. im wondering when were going to make the jump to DDR5. a decent number of graphics cards are already using GDDR5..
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