PNY
DDR4 · 3200 MT/s · CL16 · 1×8GB
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Last updated Oct 12, 2026
PNY XLR8 Gaming EPIC-X RGB DDR4-3200 1x8GB price history in FR: current low €74.51, 12-month low €24.20, 12-month median €99.10.
Above typical — consider waiting — current price is 11% above the 3-month median.
XLR8 Gaming EPIC-X RGB is PNY's lit-up DDR4 desktop line, sold from single sticks up to four-module sets and covering a moderate spread of speed grades under one name. Every kit in the family carries the RGB bar; none of it is sold in a plain version.
1×8GB at 3200 MT/s CL16 gives 8GB in this listing, and a four-stick set in this family asks more of a board's memory controller than a two-stick kit of the same total capacity does — worth knowing if you're filling every slot at once rather than starting from an empty board.
This is DDR4 UDIMM for standard desktop boards. Rated speed only applies with the board's XMP profile selected in firmware; left on defaults, the kit runs at a slower baseline.
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.
CAMM2 and SODIMM are physically incompatible laptop memory formats. The difference is not speed at a given rating but how many channels each module carries, how the module attaches, and whether a machine can ever add memory rather than replace it.
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.
The price index tracks how the cost of a fixed basket of RAM configurations moves over time — it is a trend line, not a prediction, and it says nothing about any single kit you are about to buy.