Samsung
DDR4 · 2666 MT/s · CL19 · 1×32GB
Lowest price in CA across retailers
Last updated Oct 12, 2026
Samsung DDR4-2666 ECC RDIMM 1x32GB price history in CA: current low CA$430.43, 12-month low CA$193.32, 12-month median CA$994.90.
Great time to buy — current price is 27% below the 3-month median.
Samsung is one of the handful of companies that actually manufactures the DRAM die used across the industry, and its own-brand server modules are built entirely in-house rather than assembled from purchased chips — a detail that matters mainly for the qualification paperwork data-centre buyers rely on, not for anything a home builder would notice. This RDIMM sits at a well-established, conservative DDR4 server speed.
It ships as 32GB in 1×32GB, DDR4 rated 2666 MT/s CL19 in RDIMM. That capacity-per-module figure is the number worth checking against your platform's per-channel and per-socket limits before ordering more than one, since server boards often cap total memory by rank count as much as by raw gigabytes.
All of it is ECC, meant for boards that require registered ECC memory rather than the unbuffered modules a desktop uses.
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.