Used DDR5 vs Used DDR4 Malaysia: Five Lowyat Rows and the DDR4 Band
Decision details
Fits if: Malaysian builders and upgraders standing at the used fork: sell up the DDR4 side, or start buying used DDR5.
Main drawback: The five DDR5 rows are seller asking quotes from one board on one day — not verified transactions, not an official market range; per-GB numbers are not printed in this page's prose (in a slot, awaiting registry admission).
Compare: DDR4 versus DDR5 class (do not cross-compare); kit versus single stick; speed and SODIMM versus desktop; whether the price is asking, an in-thread markdown, or a seller SOLD marker; your actual platform needs.
In this guide
The classic “DDR4 or DDR5” question is always answered from the new-build angle. This page answers it from the angle the EN trio does not: the used market — the same board, the same capture day, two generations sitting side by side.
Has used DDR5 really arrived on the same board as DDR4?
Yes — and this is an index-based observation, not a forecast:
“DDR5 asks now visibly entering the same board (Apacer DDR5 5600 16G, Samsung DDR5-5600 SODIMM x2, Corsair DDR5 6400 64GB, SK hynix DDR5 4800 32GB kit) — DDR5 arrival pressure on DDR4 asks is now observable in-thread, not just forecast” (forum.lowyat.net/RAMGarageSales index, index diff, 2026-10-02)
The practical meaning: for the first time, used buyers can compare two generations side by side on the same board — demand pressure is starting to turn into observable price pressure.
What do the five DDR5 rows on that board look like?
Five DDR5 asking rows captured 2/10/2026 — quoted byte-exact, not one word changed:
| Seller row (byte-exact) | Thread |
|---|---|
| "Item(s): Samsung 8GB DDR5-5600 CL46 X2 OEM SODIMM / Price: RM450 (firm)" | topic 5572131 |
| "Item(s): Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5 64GB (32X2) 6400mhz / Price: RM 4,500 [...] Price Reduced to RM 2,600 / Item(s) conditions: Like new. I bought 4 sticks. Used on briefly on installation but took it out as motherboard can only run stable 6400mhz on 2" | topic 5549124 |
| "Item(s): Kingston 16gb (8x2) ddr5 cl 40 5600 mhz ram / Price: RM 850 (If you feel expensive we can negotiate together) / Location: KL Area" | topic 5573501 |
| "Item(s): Sk hynix 32gb (16gbx2) DDR5 4800 laptop ram / Price: 1000 / Dealing method: cod / Location: kota damansara / conditions: used" | topic 5567950 |
| "Item(s): [WTS] Apacer DDR5 5600 Desktop 16G x 1 CL46 / Price: SOLD! / Item(s) conditions: Like brand New (less than 1 month) / COD at Bangsar, KL" | topic 5576728 |
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Read two things from that table. First, the DDR5 asking range is wide — from a cheap SODIMM pair to a big RGB kit; early markets look like this, with no price consensus. Second, the Corsair row carries the most important story — continued below.
What is the Corsair case — a deep price cut with the stability problem disclosed?
The Corsair row is not just a discount — the seller himself wrote the reason for selling: bought four sticks, the board only runs stable with two. The “buy by platform, sell the surplus” story we know from the DDR4 crisis era is now repeating on DDR5, complete with the in-thread stability disclosure. The lesson for a used-DDR5 buyer: ask why it is being sold, and if the answer involves board stability, ask which modules were tested and which were not.
If I own DDR4, what does this pressure mean?
Do not panic — read the data:
- The DDR4 asking band is alive: a true DDR4 floor of RM190 and a median of RM450 at the 2026-10-01 snapshot (the full table belongs to the used RAM price page, not repeated here) [source]
- The Lowyat mirror is liquid: a single 8GB DDR4 stick has a seller SOLD-marker record at an asking price of RM100 per unit (H2 2026) [source] — again, a seller’s SOLD marker, not a verified transaction
- For asking-range context by class: dated Carousell rows span asks of RM30-RM2,400 with 32GB-class quartiles [source] — and the standing warning: that RM30 card is a DDR3 lot inside a DDR4 search, with the true DDR4 floor at RM190 [source]
The meaning: your DDR4 still has buyers. What changed is the competition for space — used DDR5 is starting to offer big buyers another option.
If I want to start buying used DDR5?
Three disciplines:
- Assume a thin market. Five active rows are not a market — a wide asking range means negotiation is the primary skill. The Kingston row itself says “If you feel expensive we can negotiate together” — the seller has already signalled.
- Remember used DDR5 prices have spiked once before. Lowyat buyers recorded a DDR5 32GB kit that once cost a few hundred ringgit, later rising to “at least RM1.3k” (Dec 2025, buyer report, asking/report status) [source] — this market has already moved fast once.
- Check the status of every number. Ask for a thread screenshot and the date — undated quotes cannot be compared.
Status discipline: what exactly is the DDR4 band?
One important honesty note before you compare: some of the used-DDR4 band guides out there are DR-sourced relay guides, not transactions we measured ourselves — their individual rows are dated forum/market observations, usable as context only [source]. What we measured ourselves: the one-day Carousell asking band [source] and the Lowyat SOLD-marker rows [source]. Do not mix statuses while comparing — asking versus transaction versus relay are three different things.
Why is used DDR5 appearing now — the factory context?
Three registry-bound context rows, with no forecast of ours: the industry DDR5 share is expected to rise sharply (TrendForce 2024 — relay, attributed to their press release) [source]; industry DRAM revenue surged in Q2 2026 [source]; and a manufacturer EOL notice is retiring DDR4 lines [source]. The combination pushes older DDR5 kits into the second-hand market — the index observation above is its visible effect on the local board.
The DDR4 EOL that reversed: the manufacturer timeline (D6 relay)
The DR research archive ram-market-trajectory (dr-wave2-20261004, captured 2026-10-04, relay — not yet in the fact registry) gives the timeline that explains why used DDR4 stopped getting cheaper year over year: Samsung and SK hynix originally planned to halt DDR4 in late 2025, and both REVERSED (Samsung extended its 1z-node DDR4 lines through December 2026 — reported 1 September 2025; SK hynix boosted output at its mature Wuxi, China plant) because DDR4 turned more profitable than planned; Micron exited hard instead — formal EOL notices in mid-2025 and the consumer Crucial brand shuttered entirely in December 2025; China’s CXMT is migrating to DDR5/domestic HBM with a full DDR4 exit projected by end-2026. 1
The effect for Malaysian buyers: the flow of NEW DDR4 is shrinking (the lines live on purely for margin), so used DDR4 prices no longer decline with age the way they used to — the “wait six months, get it cheaper” pattern for legacy memory has broken. The buy-at-need framing: if your platform is DDR4 and it needs RAM today, buy today against the dated band; do not delay on the assumption that legacy prices will fall. The full platform upgrade to DDR5 — the gap and the lock-in — is owned by other pages; here the rule is one line: buy by need, band by date. 1
Platform lock-in: this decision is bigger than the price?
One final warning, one sentence only: choosing DDR4 or DDR5 is choosing a platform (board + CPU), not choosing a price — the full new-build decision (performance gap, lock-in, EOL papers) is owned by the EN trio at ddr4 vs ddr5, and the hold-or-buy decision at wait or buy RAM 2026. This page owns exactly one question: when the unit is already used, what should you pay.
Read next: used RAM prices (DDR4 band) · used 32GB DDR4 kit · wait or buy RAM 2026
DR research archive ram-market-trajectory (dr-wave2-20261004, REPORT.md sha256 b48dab929ac0052ce10ae4e562770de8561a1686e75bafe00e61e841fcb2d2ad, captured 2026-10-04, relay — not yet in the fact registry): “Samsung extended its DDR4 production roadmap through December 2026” (Korean trade press, 1 Sep 2025); “Micron issued formal EOL and discontinuation notices for its DDR4 and LPDDR4 portfolios in mid-2025… shuttered its consumer-facing Crucial brand entirely in December 2025”; “CXMT… projecting a full exit from the DDR4 manufacturing space by the end of 2026”; the “chipflation” phenomenon (Morgan Stanley) — legacy memory generations no longer get cheaper over time. ↩︎ ↩︎
Frequently asked questions
Is used DDR5 actually for sale in Malaysia?
Yes — and not just one or two: the 2/10/2026 Lowyat Garage Sales index observation records "DDR5 asks now visibly entering the same board (Apacer DDR5 5600 16G, Samsung DDR5-5600 SODIMM x2, Corsair DDR5 6400 64GB, SK hynix DDR5 4800 32GB kit) — DDR5 arrival pressure on DDR4 asks is now observable in-thread, not just forecast" (index diff Lowyat, 2026-10-02). The arrival pressure is an index-diff observation, not our forecast.
What does used DDR5 cost versus used DDR4?
The DDR4 side has a registry-bound band: DDR4 floor RM190, median RM450 (Carousell snapshot 2026-10-01 — full table on the used RAM price page) [source]. The DDR5 side has no registry key yet — five rows quoted byte-exact in this page (table below), all seller asking status. The per-GB comparison is not yet printed in prose — it awaits registry admission (see the slot).
What is the story of the price-cut Corsair DDR5 case?
One big kit marked down heavily inside its own thread, with the reason written by the seller: "I bought 4 sticks. Used on briefly on installation but took it out as motherboard can only run stable 6400mhz on 2" (Lowyat topic 5549124, sighted 2/10/2026). That is the classic DDR4 story — buy by platform, resell the surplus — now repeating on DDR5. Full numbers in the quoted table.
What does a 'SOLD!' row without a price mean?
A SOLD marker in the seller's price field — the price replaced by the word 'SOLD!'. It is the SELLER's own marker, not a verified transaction: "Item(s): [WTS] Apacer DDR5 5600 Desktop 16G x 1 CL46 / Price: SOLD!" (Lowyat topic 5576728). We record it as an honest null — the price cannot be lifted, and it must not be invented.
I own DDR4 — must I panic-sell?
No. The liquid DDR4 market is still real: a single 8GB stick has a seller SOLD-marker record on Lowyat at an asking price of RM100 per unit [source], and the DDR4 asking band is alive [source]. What changed is DDR5 starting to compete for the same space — read it as pressure, not apocalypse.
Why is this happening now?
Factory capacity transition: industry forecasts expect the DDR5 share to rise sharply (TrendForce 2024, relay) [source], industry DRAM revenue jumped in Q2 2026 [source], and a manufacturer EOL notice is retiring DDR4 lines [source]. The used-market side effect: more second-hand DDR5 kits appearing.