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Scenario he's talking about (non K CPUs with mid level b boards) calls for ddr4 3200 which is half the price of the ddr5 you listed and 1/3rd of the price of the next tier higher ddr5 which is what a lot of reviewers usedWhile I agree that DDR5 usually shows benefits in cases where the frame rates are already high, the pricing disparity between DDR5 and DDR4 isn't that bad now. Techspot used DDR5 6000 CL36 in their comparison with DDR4 last year. In the USA, It's around $180 on Newegg and DDR4 3600 CL16 is about $153 there. I think that price difference isn't significant enough to choose the slower DDR4.
3600 isn't guaranteed on non K CPUs (mine won't even boot 3600 on a tier higher H series board) and it's not guaranteed on B boards which is why the reviewers that did use 3600 almost always used a z board