I just built an AMD 3700X based system - and so far I'm hugely impressed. Upgraded from an old i7 2600K - and the difference is night and day - it flies.
I went for a gen3 compatible MSI B450 (Carbon Gaming AC) motherboard - way cheaper than the X570 boards and I didn't require any of the extras you get on the X470/X570 boards. The only requirement was that it had FlashBIOS so I could flash the bios to cope with the 3700X chip before installing the CPU.
3200MHz Vengeance RAM.
I also got a BeQuiet Dark Rock 4 CPU cooler - as the Wraith cooler that comes with the CPU is not considered that great.
Anyway - for me - this was amazing value - and the system runs so quick - and my projects which used to max out my old system - barely touch this one...
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