Weekly CPU & Memory Price Guide: March 2003 1st Edition

Memory DDR
	Corsair C2 PC3200 512MB	$138.00	$0.00	$-24.00	NuTrend	Compare Prices
	Corsair C2.5 P2700 512MB	$76.00	$0.00	$0.00	NewEgg	Compare Prices
	Corsair C2.5 P2700 512MB	$65.95	$-0.00	$-62.05	AllStarShop	Compare Prices
	Corsair C2.5 PC2100 1024MB	$299.00	$-0.00	N/A	PCProgress	Compare Prices
	Corsair C2.5 PC2100 256MB	$33.00	$-0.00	$-6.00	PCProgress	Compare Prices
	Corsair C2.5 PC2100 512MB	$65.00	$0.00	$-47.00	NewEgg	Compare Prices
	Corsair C2.5 PC3200 256MB	$75.00	$0.00	$-9.00	GoogleGear	Compare Prices
	Crucial C2.5 PC2100 256MB	$32.50	$0.00	$-14.00	GoogleGear	Compare Prices
	Crucial C2.5 PC2100 512MB	$61.50	$-0.00	$-20.50	AllStarShop	Compare Prices
	Crucial C2.5 PC2700 256MB	$39.00	$0.00	$-14.00	NewEgg	Compare Prices
	Crucial C2.5 PC2700 512MB	$70.00	$0.00	$-38.00	GoogleGear	Compare Prices
	Crucial C2.5 PC3200 256MB	$67.99	$-0.00	N/A	Crucial	Compare Prices
	Crucial C2.5 PC3200 512MB	$120.99	$-0.00	N/A	Crucial	Compare Prices
	GeIL C2 PC2700 256MB	$48.00	$5.00	$-6.00	NewEgg	Compare Prices
	GeIL C2 PC2700 512MB	$70.00	$6.00	$-36.00	NewEgg	Compare Prices
	GeIL C2.5 PC3200 256MB	$55.00	$6.00	$-14.00	NewEgg	Compare Prices
	GeIL C2.5 PC3200 512MB	$90.00	$6.00	$-34.00	NewEgg	Compare Prices
	GeIL C2.5 PC3500 256MB	$73.50	$0.00	$-10.50	GoogleGear	Compare Prices
	GeIL C2.5 PC3500 512MB	$135.00	$0.00	$-26.00	GoogleGear	Compare Prices
	GeIL C2.5 PC3700 256MB	$75.00	$5.00	N/A	NewEgg	Compare Prices
	GeIL C2.5 PC3700 512MB	$185.00	$6.00	$-9.00	NewEgg	Compare Prices
	Kingston C3 PC2100 256MB	$30.00	$0.00	$-12.00	NuTrend	Compare Prices
	Kingston C3 PC2100 512MB	$58.00	$0.00	$-19.00	GoogleGear	Compare Prices
	Kingston C3 PC2700 256MB	$35.50	$-0.00	$-13.50	AllStarShop	Compare Prices
	Kingston C3 PC2700 512MB	$65.00	$0.00	$-24.00	ABS	Compare Prices
	Kingston C3 PC3200 256MB	$46.00	$5.00	$-17.00	NewEgg	Compare Prices
	Kingston C3 PC3200 512MB	$88.00	$0.00	$-53.00	GoogleGear	Compare Prices
	Mushkin C2.5 PC2100 512MB	$138.00	$0.00	$-10.00	NewEgg	Compare Prices
	Mushkin C2.5 PC2700 256MB	$62.00	$0.00	$-23.00	NewEgg	Compare Prices
	Mushkin C2.5 PC2700 512MB	$184.00	$0.00	$26.00	NewEgg	Compare Prices
	Mushkin C2.5 PC3200 256MB	$89.00	$0.00	$-21.00	NewEgg	Compare Prices
	Mushkin C2.5 PC3200 512MB	$146.00	$0.00	$-72.99	NewEgg	Compare Prices
	OCZ C2.5 PC3500 256MB	$76.00	$0.00	$-11.00	GoogleGear	Compare Prices
	OCZ C2.5 PC3500 512MB	$109.00	$0.00	$-72.00	NewEgg	Compare Prices
	OCZ EL C2.5 PC3700 256MB	$95.00	$0.00	N/A	NewEgg	Compare Prices
	Samsung C3 PC2100 256MB	$35.00	$6.00	$-21.00	NewEgg	Compare Prices
	Samsung C3 PC2100 512MB	$95.50	$0.00	$-4.50	GoogleGear	Compare Prices
	Samsung C3 PC2700 256MB	$33.45	$0.00	$-21.55	Z-Buy	Compare Prices
	Samsung C3 PC2700 512MB	$77.00	$0.00	$-14.00	GoogleGear	Compare Prices
	Samsung C3 PC3200 256MB	$40.50	$0.00	$-38.50	Z-Buy	Compare Prices
	Samsung C3 PC3200 512MB	$78.50	$0.00	$-140.50	Z-Buy	Compare Prices

There has been a decent amount of news about DRAM prices actually increasing after their six month spiral into prices today. From what we have seen, prices are still on a downfall but not a significant in change as previous guides have shown. It looks like prices will begin to stabilize in the upcoming weeks, but we still forecast price drops in the higher clocked and lower CL rated memory. Samsung was unable to provide comment for us about their DRAM prices, but there has been much information about Micron and Hynix lately.

The most notable changes this week include the "Uber-Deseriable" Samsung modules dropping over 50% in price over a 1-month tracking period. Eventually, within upcoming weeks we forecast PC2700 and PC2100 prices to sit competitive with each other. We already have noticed PC2100 and PC2700 prices dipping below prices of PC133 modules. Again, even though next week might bring slightly lower prices, it is an excellent week to buy pretty much any module.

Our personal recommendations include the Kingston PC2700 512MB modules and the Samsung PC3200 modules as well. Obviously, if your motherboard only supports 333MHz FSB, PC3200 is not necessary. You may have noticed we neglected to list the "Twin" series memory modules. Don't let memory manufactures fool you, there is no such thing as "Dual Channel DDR" sticks, they are just regular DDR sticks that have been bundled together. From our original research, we cannot seem to find any reason why the Corsair/Kingston/etc Twin modules are any better than just buying two 256MB low latency sticks instead.