If I were you I would wait for the Ryzen 2nd Gen which is coming in April. Should have better motherboard too. Do take note x series does not include cooler.

If you want something now and an x470 for sli for some reason, MSI Carbon Pro is your next bet at 650 but if you want to risk it, look for a Biostar X470GT8/ X370GT7. That board is high level stuff made on a budget. Think a cut down Asus Crosshair (best x470) at 600 with less bells and whistles on other component such as Lan or capacitors. You get all you need to OC like voltage offset and BCLK tuner which is absent on any other board below 900.

Edit;
Looks like you have some bad news, there is no x470gt8 in Malaysia and probably not ever. If you want to use auto OC then the Taichi is the next best thing for its price and VRM setup.

today finally place order for my 2700X   .....replacing my old i5-750 bought 9 years ago...

The Ryzen 3000-series family currently consists of six members starting from the Ryzen 5 3600 hexa-core part up to the flagship Ryzen 9 3950X 16-core chip. New evidence has emerged that suggests AMD could capitalize on the Ryzen 3000-series' traction and release a couple more SKUs to fill the price gap. The mainstream line allegedly gets the Ryzen 9 3900, Ryzen 7 3700 and Ryzen 5 3500.

Sold already lol.
Untungla haha.
Anyway, regarding my question about my Windows 10 only detecting stereo, turns out it's the limitation of optical cable as it can only transfer Bitstream (compressed) surround sound or PCM (uncompressed) stereo. My PC is connected to TV via HDMI and TV is connected to my Z5500 via optical. PS4 surround works because there's a Bitstream option. VLC also works because (downloaded) videos with surround sound are also compressed and there's an option to passthrough the Windows driver. Windows detects my optical connection so it only gives me Stereo in PCM. Games are also in PCM in Stereo or surround. So if i want to play games in surround, i still need to use analog cable which connects my PC directly to speaker. But since i don't game much, i'll stick with HDMI only for now. Less cable mess.

Are we eligible for the Xbox 3 month Game Pass when we buy a new ryzen here?

https://www.amd.com/en/gaming/game-bundle

shirohamada b450m steel legend bios v2.70 is out

no, 40 min.
same even on a scythe mugen. even peak temp is not impressive, but it never goes above 80C or thermal throttles.

November launch: 3500x
6c6t. Will be very nice option for those who really only do gaming (and are on a tight budget.)

Edit: just saw 3950x got postponed to November 😂
Seems they dont have enough (good) chips yet.

So it will be Epyc first, n then TR4>3950x probably as the latter two are scheduled for the same month.

https://www.techpowerup.com/260130/intel-sc...ylake-till-2022

Somewhat unrelated, but it looks like Intel is going to end up stuck with 14nm+++++++++ for the foreseeable future

Just upgrade my rig to 3700X, Kleev Bolt DDR4 3200 and Asrock B450M Steel Legend.

My old rig, 2400G with DDR4-2400 (no DOCP) and Asus A320M-K.

Reusing the same RTX2060 but the gaming performance is different by day and night