About DDR5 SDRAM

DDR5? DDR5? DDR5?...
I think DDR5 was something very different from what each memory company said....
EETimes - Comparing DDR5 Memory From Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix
Therefore, "hardware compatibility" or "compatibility" issues, as they were called in the old days, may arise later.

It is advisable to skip or expand to the maximum extent possible now.
Things in this area will not be cheap until next year or later.
Even as a strategic commodity now, semiconductors are being reconsidered, and the plan to make them cheaper may be postponed indefinitely.
Therefore, it is advisable to either skip or maximize the expansion that can be done now.
I said the "similar phrase" twice because it was important.

skip the ddr5 mate, it's not worth the extra cost, all gimmicks, no matter how fast, it's like 1% actual real world faster than ddr4, by the time ddr5 matures, you are most likely having Intel/Amd on new architectures, thus a waste of money for the motherboard as well.

Also, you'll get lower performance for older games on ddr5 compared to ddr4, due to optimization.

Right now...

DDR5 is just better than DDR4 in pure stats BUT all in all it depends on the prices in your country - if I would have to choose between 16GB of DDR5 or 32GB of DDR4 for the same price I would go for DDR4.

Let say we compare (DDR5) Kingston Fury Beast 32GB 5200 MHz CL40 vs (DDR4) Kingston Fury Beast 32GB 3600 MHz CL18

DDR5 will be better for gaming BUT only slightly. Something like 0.5-2% better.
If you play in 1920x1080 the difference will be depending on the game but will be something between 1-6 FPS but the difference between 120 and 126 or 144 and 150 FPS won't be noticeable especially if you have a good 144 Hz monitor.

I think the price is the most important thing now for you to look at.
There is no point in spending more to get 1% better PC.

In 2 weeks AMD will announce Zen 4 with availability around July-September. Also expect 13th gen Raptor Lake at the end of 2022.
5800X3D is $450, you need cheap motherboard, cheap DDR4 and it's similar to 12900K with DDR5 in gaming.
With AMD you also get way lower power consumption and lower temperatures. You can use an air cooler with AMD.
12900K vs 5800X3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XB3yo74dKU
12700KF vs 5800X3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIXGwvIaWnk
If you go with DDR4 I recommend Dual Rank RAM (4 single rank DIMMs or 2 dual rank DIMMs) and at least 32GB. System is more responsive with dual rank RAM, for example 3200 DR outperforms 3600 SR, so you don't need high frequency RAM to get optimal performance.

I'd go with 2x 16GB ddr4 instead (32 total) @3200-3600Mhz.

You are looking for performance in the wrong place. Better go for a Ryzen CPU. Even IF Intel can get to the same performance, which they don't by far, the AMD CPUs consume way less energy.
DDR4 is more affordable just make sure to go 3200MHz, also check if mainboard and CPU support more than 3200MHz if you wanna go higher. Also go at least dual channel on memory.

PS: good guy AMD uses the same AM4 socket in mainboards across CPU gens, while Intel changes it every 2-3 generations.
With AMD you can gear up later on on the same mainboard.

better 'worry' about gpu than ram. ddr4 is the way to go rn, especially if u go with ryzen+crucial sport lt and oc ram

ddr4 wil be still alive for long time, as we have deficit of pc components

and reusing my 1050Ti (4GB)

Why do you need to upgrade your CPU if you are reusing that card? It will be a huge bottleneck unless you need a better CPU for anything else that does not make use of the GPU.

I don't find the price point is good for DDR5 at this point in time, the slight advantages you "might" get from it wouldn't justify it. The fact it's more expensive to get 16GB DDR5 than 32GB DDR4 is a huge issue, as 32GB of 3200 would give you much greater performance than any 16GB DDR5 kit you get.

Based on what I see available on newegg for my region right now too, I feel frequency/timing ratio's could still use some improvement as well. Though the higher latency of DDR5 shouldn't cause any issues, especially given the data rate, extra performance out of them would be nice.

In the end, with a good CPU, GPU, SSD/NVME and DDR4 3200-3600, you'll crush just about any game. Take the savings from not getting DDR5 and invest them into a better GPU if anything.

If you buy a new hardware iteration you always pay a premium as early adopter. DDR5 with terrible timings isn't necessarily better than DDR4 with fast timings.
Amount of RAM for gaming 16GB and 32GB for video editing in Dual Channel mode(you'll probably leave more performance on the table if you run DDR5 RAM in single channel than you gain by the newer RAM compared to DDR4 in dual channel). Overall performance of a system is much more affected by CPU, GPU , SSD and don't forget a quality PSU and mainboard.

As you want to keep your 1050Ti for the time being I don't see how an upgrade of CPU, RAM and/or mainboard would improve performance noticeably. Best investment for now would be a fast NVME SSD probably(installed on adapter card in a mainboard slot).

Edit: Consider also improving your monitor eg: 144Hz IPS or better

As Orono said above, wasting your money on the latest hardware for only half of your build and neglecting your GPU is silly. Also, if you're not running SSD already, that's even more of a concern.
Worrying about DDR5 will be the least of your performance issues.

If you are happy with your current performance, why upgrade?
I just upgraded from a i5-4670 to a 5950X recently, but only because I wanted better performance for certain 3D art related tasks. For games the Intel 4000 series is still fine 95% of the time unless you're aiming for 120fps or higher.

for now ddr5 is expensive and doesn't offer that much of a performance improvement. better wait maybe another year for that.
you could blow your money on a mid-range AM4 system with something like a ryzen 3600 or 5600 / 5800x 3d and add 16 or 32gb of ddr4 and you will be good to go for years to come.

but a 1050 ti is really kind of bad today.
at the same time a friend of mine followed my advice and bought himself a ryzen 3600 based system a year (?) ago and he is still using his old 1050 ti in there as well. not exactly what i would have done but he is happy with it so why not use what you have already.

more like ddr5 scam, price is not worth it now, let the technology develop and the prices will drop

i didnt even know dance dance revolution made a 5th game

If you're building a budget or price/perf sweet spot build then you absolutely shouldn't be getting DDR5 because it will cost 4x more than the best DDR4. Yes, cheaper DDR5 exists but you will get much worse performance with it compared to cheaper DDR4.

Given your GPU, the price difference of DDR5 alone would get you a nice GPU upgrade. Just stick with DDR4 and put the $300 saved into a future GPU upgrade now that the GPU bubble is mostly deflated.

By the end of the year things will change, both Raptor Lake, Zen 4, Ada Lovelace, RDNA3, and Intel's GPUs will all have launched. So it'll probably best to wait at least until the end of the year for all of that. I am also using Haswell (4790K) and have been waiting on Zen 4 before I upgrade.

Thank you everyone for your input. Unless a reasonable DDR4 setup will be a bargain, I will likely go for DDR5, even if it means saving up a longer time for it.

You see, it is correct that DDR5 as such doesn't offer noticeable performance improvement in gaming these days. But, aside from the issue of there not being games yet to actually make full use of it, what DDR5 makes possible is a lot more CPU cores. E.g. current top Intel Alder Lake CPUs (and e.g. Zen 2 used in top performance consoles), they have 8 cores. Whereas with DDR5, the next-gen CPUs (for end-users) are moving towards 24 cores, which is likely to be quite a boost in performance.

And aside from possible performance gains e.g. in current 4X-games, for gaming this means a possibly huge jump specifically about physics. In example, footage of Unreal Engine 5 graphics is nice. But when you look closely, it is quite static, with situations, such as a wall caving in, using pre-set animation. On the other hand, a lot more CPU power makes it possible for game developers to be like: "Realistic behavior of individual hair strands on a characters head, based on environmental factors including wind? Why not? And making it fun to jump in water puddles, as the CPU helps to calculate how the water will realistically splash? Why not?" - as GPUs sure are capable of depicting such already, but the calculation of realistic behavior of all them details, that takes a lot of computational power.

Of course, this will still take quite some time until it gets made full use of, especially depending on when next-gen consoles move on up there (as consoles are usually the technical standard around which modern games get developed). So for years not likely to miss out with DDR4.

But I'll get a new base setup in some months anyhow. And when right now 32 GB DDR4 RAM and mainboard would cost me some 300, and a DDR5 setup some 400, my reasoning is that the 400 will last longer to be on top of technical specifications for gaming (in that regard) and also easily carry next-gen GPUs, like 5 years at least perhaps, whereas a DDR4 setup may start falling behind in 3 years or so (specifically in regard to the whole CPU core issue).

I will reevaluate later though, particularly when Zen 4 will become available in September apparently, which may possibly lead to older DDR4 components getting sold a lot cheaper - where it would sure seem silly to not make use of a reasonable DDR4 setup for some 100 when DDR5 setup will still be at some 400.