G.Skill
DDR4 · 3200 MT/s · CL16 · 1×16GB
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Last updated Oct 12, 2026
G.Skill Aegis DDR4-3200 1x16GB price history in US: current low $138.66, 12-month low $138.66, 12-month median $140.89.
Price history is aggregated from tracked listings at Newegg.
Fair price — current price is 2% below the 12-month median.
Price history is aggregated from tracked listings at Newegg.
Aegis is G.Skill's plain-finish DDR4 line — no RGB, a basic black heatspreader, positioned under the Trident and Ripjaws families as the no-frills option. It's sold across single sticks, pairs, and quad-module sets, all under the same name, with the speed grade as the thing that actually varies inside it.
1×16GB rated at 3200 MT/s CL16 gives 16GB in this listing, while other Aegis kits at a lower grade carry the same capacity and module count at a slower timing — a four-module set also draws on all of a board's slots at once, a heavier load on the memory controller than a two-stick kit of the same total size. All of it is DDR4 UDIMM for standard desktop boards, unbuffered and built for consumer platforms rather than anything requiring registered memory.
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.
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.
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.