G.Skill
DDR4 · 3600 MT/s · CL18 · 4×8GB
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Last updated Oct 12, 2026
G.Skill Trident Z Neo DDR4-4000 4x8GB 3600 CL18 price history in FR: current low €321.32, 12-month low €181.48, 12-month median €399.24.
Above typical — consider waiting — current price is 6% above the 3-month median.
Trident Z Neo pairs G.Skill's faceted heatspreader with an RGB light bar across the top of every module in this family — it's built for building lists rather than hidden inside a case, and all of it ships with the lighting, addressable through most major motherboard RGB software. Every kit here settles at the same 32GB, so the variable buyers actually compare is speed and timing rather than how much memory they're getting.
3600 MT/s tops the range at a CL18 latency, with slower-rated kits in the same family running looser or lower depending on the exact listing. A four-stick 4×8GB kit loads the memory controller harder than the equivalent two-module capacity, which is worth checking against your board's supported configurations, especially at the higher end of this range.
It's unbuffered, non-ECC UDIMM DDR4 built for desktop sockets, and the rated speed only applies once the XMP profile is enabled in BIOS.
Vengeance LPX earns its long shelf life through breadth and a low-profile heatspreader, not through any single standout spec — the timing bin on the specific listing is what actually decides whether a given kit is a good buy.
DDR5 doubled the bandwidth and moved power regulation onto the module. Whether that is worth paying for depends entirely on which platform you are building.
A dying memory generation does not get cheaper on its way out — it gets more expensive, because the economics of end-of-life manufacturing are the opposite of the economics of a maturing one.
16 GB is no longer comfortable, 32 GB is the sensible default, and 64 GB is a workload decision rather than a future-proofing one.
Capacity avoids stutter caused by running out of memory; speed affects how efficiently the CPU feeds data to the GPU. They solve different problems, and buying enough of the first one before spending on the second is the right order.
A 2x16GB kit sits at the highest-volume point on the memory market, and volume is what actually sets price per gigabyte — not capacity, and not how new a kit's specification is.