G.Skill
DDR4 · 3600 MT/s · CL16 · 2×16GB
Lowest price in CA across retailers
Last updated Oct 12, 2026
G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4-3600 2x16GB price history in CA: current low CA$401.78, 12-month low CA$199.99, 12-month median CA$458.39.
Price history is aggregated from tracked listings at Newegg Canada.
Fair price — current price is 3% above the 3-month median.
Price history is aggregated from tracked listings at Newegg Canada.
Ripjaws V is G.Skill's low-profile heatsink line for DDR4 — flatter than the brand's taller Trident Z kits, chosen as much for clearing large air coolers as for anything printed on the spec sheet. It has stayed in the catalogue long enough to span several distinct speed bins under one name.
That spread shows up directly in the listings: 2×16GB at 3600 MT/s CL16 is one point in the range, and other kits carrying the same name land at noticeably different timings. Two sticks both labelled Ripjaws V are not automatically interchangeable — match 32GB and the rated speed to what your motherboard's memory support list actually shows before buying a second kit to pair with one you already own.
All of it is DDR4 UDIMM for standard desktop boards. It needs unbuffered, non-ECC support, which covers essentially any consumer desktop platform built for DDR4.
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.