Recommendations for Ryzen 3000 build

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I'm after some advice on parts I need to complete my build.
Parts I have at the minute are:

Vega56 Saphire
960Gb NVME drive
2TB MX500
2x16Gb Crucial 3200 C16 E-Die RAM.
Currently looking at the Lian Li Lancool one or two when it releases.

I'm really stuck on what motherboard and processor to go for. I initially bought a X570 Taichi and was going to go with a 3900X but I'm now thinking along the lines of a 3700X or 3800X then dropping in a higher core CPU in few years time, So i do want an X570 board to cope with it.

I now keep jumping between the Asus TUF gaming or Auros Elite/Pro motherboards and ultimately back out of buying at the last minute usually after being put off by some comments about what I was hoping to buy. I.e. People having issues with long boot times etc, The VRM isn't good/efficient etc.

So Ideally, Looking for a motherboard with good VRM so I don't need to worry about dropping in a higher core chip in a couple of years time. I don't upgrade my system often and this current one is an intel 2500K.

Any thoughts or advice?

Edit to add, Looking at spending around £250 on the motherboard.
 
Basically you don't need expensive X570 board for VRM to be good for up to 16 cores.
Except for few extremely cheap VRM Asrocks and three MSI boards with copypasta VRM from B450/X470 all are pretty much good to go.

For example after having scam level VRMs in some previous AM4 boards, even the cheapest Asus X570 board has modern high efficiency design VRM good for 200A output, if there's just some airflow for heatsinks to do their job.
That would handle 12 cores easily.
 
Basically you don't need expensive X570 board for VRM to be good for up to 16 cores.
Except for few extremely cheap VRM Asrocks and three MSI boards with copypasta VRM from B450/X470 all are pretty much good to go.

For example after having scam level VRMs in some previous AM4 boards, even the cheapest Asus X570 board has modern high efficiency design VRM good for 200A output, if there's just some airflow for heatsinks to do their job.
That would handle 12 cores easily.

To be fair, I think 12 core is all I would ever need for the next 10 years so if that is more than capable, I'll maybe add it to my list.
Who do you find to have the better bios? Any manufacturers to avoid just now?
 
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