Weekly Hardware Price Guides - January 2003 1st Edition

DDR Memory

Product	Current Price	S+H	Week Change	Link	BizRate
Corsair C2.5 PC2100 256MB	$65.00	$0.00	$0.00	CompuBuzz	BizRate
Corsair C2.5 PC2100 512MB	$121.00	$0.00	$0.00	NewEgg	BizRate
Corsair C2.5 PC2700 256MB	$81.00	$0.00	$0.00	GoogleGear	BizRate
Corsair C2.5 PC2700 512MB	$141.00	$0.00	$-5.00	NewEgg	BizRate
Corsair XMS C2 PC3200 256MB	$87.00	$0.00	$0.00	NuTrend	BizRate
Corsair XMS C2 PC3200 512MB	$162.00	$0.00	$-7.00	NuTrend	BizRate
GeIL C2.5 PC3200 256MB	$75.00	$0.00	$0.00	NewEgg	BizRate
GeIL C2.5 PC3500 256MB	$85.00	$0.00	$0.00	GoogleGear	BizRate
GeIL C2.5 PC3500 512MB	$150.00	$0.00	$0.00	GameVE	BizRate
GeIL C2.5 PC3700 512MB	$215.00	$0.00	$0.00	GameVE	BizRate
GeIL Value C2 PC2700 256MB	$65.00	$0.00	$0.00	NewEgg	BizRate
GeIL Value C2 PC2700 512MB	$127.00	$0.00	$0.00	NewEgg	BizRate
Kingston C3 PC2100 256MB	$50.00	$0.00	$-1.00	GoogleGear	BizRate
Kingston C3 PC2100 512MB	$93.00	$0.00	$-6.00	GoogleGear	BizRate
Kingston C3 PC2700 256MB	$57.00	$0.00	$-4.00	GoogleGear	BizRate
Kingston C3 PC2700 512MB	$113.00	$0.00	$0.00	NewEgg	BizRate
Kingston C3 PC3200 256MB	$76.00	$0.00	$0.00	NewEgg	BizRate
Kingston C3 PC3200 512MB	$141.00	$0.00	$0.00	NewEgg	BizRate
Mushkin C2.5 PC2100 256MB	$86.00	$0.00	$0.00	NewEgg	BizRate
Mushkin C2.5 PC2100 512MB	$148.00	$0.00	$0.00	NewEgg	BizRate
Mushkin C2.5 PC2700 256MB	$88.00	$0.00	$0.00	NewEgg	BizRate
Mushkin C2.5 PC2700 512MB	$165.00	$0.00	$0.00	NewEgg	BizRate
Mushkin C2.5 PC3200 256MB	$113.99	$0.00	$0.00	CompuBuzz	BizRate
Mushkin C2.5 PC3200 512MB	$218.99	$0.00	$0.00	CompuBuzz	BizRate
Samsung C3 PC2100 256MB	$58.00	$4.00	N/A	NewEgg	BizRate
Samsung C3 PC2100 512MB	$105.00	$0.50	$-3.00	GoogleGear	BizRate
Samsung C3 PC2700 256MB	$60.99	$0.00	$0.00	NewEgg	BizRate
Samsung C3 PC2700 512MB	$109.00	$0.50	$-9.00	GoogleGear	BizRate
Samsung C3 PC3200 256MB	$93.00	$0.00	$0.00	NewEgg	BizRate
Samsung C3 PC3200 512MB	$219.00	$0.00	$0.00	NewEgg	BizRate

For this week's guide we took a pretty good sampling of the more popular DDR memory on the market. It is difficult to gauge which memory should go on the guides, since there are literally hundreds of different brands, cache latencies, and speeds on the market right now. Couple that with two different memory sizes and it becomes very difficult to manage. Admittedly, this memory guide is very messy, but we should be able to track more memory than ever before. If you have a particular brand of memory you would like us to add, please email me: kkubicki@anandtech.com and I will add it!

For this weeks all around choice, we went with GeIL's PC3500 512MB module. Even though the latency is slightly higher than the other modules at similar speed, the price is really great. Plus, it also comes with a heat spreader, which is an absolute must at 400MHz. The price of DDR in general is simply outstanding right now. As you can see, we had several modules drop 10% in price since Sunday. RAM prices in general seem to be endlessly spinning downward, and resellers are only holding on to PC133 for legacy purposes. This editor is very glad he makes a living writing product reviews instead of selling RAM.