Crucial
DDR4 · 3200 MT/s · CL22 · 1×16GB
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Last updated Oct 12, 2026
Crucial 16GB DDR4-3200 SODIMM 1x16GB price history in US: current low $114.88, 12-month low $47.12, 12-month median $110.99.
Price history is aggregated from tracked listings at Newegg.
Above typical — consider waiting — current price is 6% above the 3-month median.
Price history is aggregated from tracked listings at Newegg.
Crucial's SODIMM kits come from Micron's own fabs, sold under the consumer-facing brand rather than to system integrators, and the packaging looks plainer than most gaming-branded memory as a result — a bare green PCB and a printed label, nothing else. It's a laptop and small-form-factor part, not a desktop DIMM.
This one is a single 1×16GB module totalling 16GB, rated 3200 MT/s CL22. Laptops and mini-PCs vary in how many SODIMM slots they expose and whether they run dual-channel with only one module installed, so check the machine's own documentation before assuming a match.
Because it's SODIMM, it only fits laptop and small-form-factor DDR4 sockets — it will not go into a desktop UDIMM slot no matter how similar the pins look.
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.
Whether a laptop can be upgraded at all depends entirely on which of three physical memory formats it uses, and that has to be confirmed before comparing a single spec sheet.
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.