Half-Life Alyx has me considering a VR capable build (RIP my wallet).
logicalincrements.com is showing all AMD processors except the i9-9900K which seems comparable to the much less expensive Ryzen 7 3700X.
I guess I just need reassurance that AMD is the way to go. I'd be sticking with a Nvidia GPU.
No, the only issue I had was with a very long boot time until I disabled the boot logo(some company who is behind the titanium branding on this motherboard) in bios settings. Also because MSI chose to put a 16mb bios memory chip on B450 boards I'm limited to a lite bios(no fancy graphics) Their new Max branded b450's and above don't have this issue.
The advice I heard and followed was to not download chipset drivers from the bios manufacturer and to get them direct from AMD, which I did. The utility worked fine and updated 4 drivers at once(sound, ethernet, etc) and it was only afterwards that I was able to select Ryzen Balanced plan from Power options.
So yea, I'm really happy with performance. I was worried as well since I've been with Intel since 2012 without issue but it's all been smooth sailing.
And you're not experiencing any driver issues doing an AMD build? I know last time I had AMD Hardware that was an issue for me.