Planning a post-christmas build

Agree, i would also advice to go with the 9600K on a Z390 board nowdays.
Simply because if you buy new anyways then i personally wouldnt bother with previous gen motherboards and cpu’s.
Because with intel motherboards chipsets get EOL pretty quickly.

I still need to work this topic out a littlebit further.
So that people could check it out to help finding a decent motherboard.