The case's electronics use two headers. Then there's the usb fp header,. The farbwerk, the aquaaero, the power adjust, the clock etc etc.
I needed three or four board headers to feed off to the hubs but all of the x470 and 570 boards only had two.
Hence sticking with HEDT at least for now.
I wasn't going to buy ram ffs. Then I'm like "well 32gb will be future proof" which is reasonable. Then "the ram you have won't all work together as 32gb" which is correct.
Then I was going to buy some viper 3000 for £170 or so for 4x8gb but I found one dominator kit for £99 on eBay and the second set was on sale for £120 down from £159.
So £220. £70 more for better looking faster and overclocking RGB ram was good. Plus I hear that 3200 is about the limit for zen 1 so it's perfect really. Saves me a whole load of wiring too, as my existing RGB coolers on the ram are 4 pin.
But yeah, spendy lol. Still not done bad. £780 for a 12 core tr with board memory and water block. Less than the chip released at.