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This Week
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After the first price guides of the month of June we received many requests to add a few other models of motherboards on the charts to the other three. Some of the boards put on are the AsusTek A7N266-E and MSI K7N420 Pro nForce 420-D. The newly added boards carry either the nVidia 415 or 420 series chipsets.

As for memory, prices on DDR memory have continued to decrease while the cost on RDRAM have inceased significantly.

Go ahead and take a look at this week's changes in prices for the most popular boards along with the top brands in desktop memory...

Prices on motherboards carrying the VIA KT333 chipset continue to steadily drop with the exception of boards from Shuttle and ECS, which remain unchanged. On the other hand, the boards from MSI, EPOX and AsusTek have decreased from $6-$8 which keeps up its steady fall in price.

In the first price guide of this month, we saw that the prices on a handful of Intel chipset boards were lacking in change in cost. This week, almost all of the boards have decreased in price. The greatest price drop was from AsusTek carrying the Intel 850E chipset at a decrease of $11. MSI's MS-850 Pro and Gigabyte's GA-8IE 845E boards also followed suit dropping $9 off their prices.

Four new boards were added this week carrying nVidia's 415-D and 420-D chipsets from AsusTek, MSI and Abit. Prices for the AsusTek 220 chipset and Abit's NV7M boards have dropped $3-$4 off their tags while the nForce 415 board from MSI remains at $100.

Prices on the SiS 730 and 735 chipset boards have dropped greatly from the last motherboard and memory guides. The greatest decrease held by Leaktek for their 7350KDA board carrying the 735 series chipset.

DDR memory seems to be getting cheaper every time we do the guides for PC memory. Prices on 512MB of Corsair PC2400 memory has decreased $15 from the last time while prices on XtremeDDR's 256MB of PC3200 and Mushkin's 512MB of PC3000 have dropped $10.

Is it us or are the prices on RDRAM rising? Samsung's prices on their chips have increased $10-$11 while Kingston adds $8 to its PC800 memory