DDR5 makes sense for most mid-range builds now.

Yes, the price gap has shrunk enough that DDR5 is the better buy for a new mid-range build.

Right now you can get 32GB of DDR4-3600 for around $80-90, and the equivalent DDR5-6000 CL30 for $100-120. That’s about a $30 difference. In return, you get roughly 5-15% better performance in games depending on the title, plus a tangible boost in stuff like video editing or compilation. The performance uplift isn’t massive, but it’s real.

More importantly, if you go DDR4 today you’re locking yourself into a dead-end platform. Any future CPU upgrade will force a new motherboard and RAM anyway. DDR5 gives you a path to drop in a faster kit or upgrade the CPU