So I decided go ahead with the ASUS motherboard. I assembled these:
added:
ASUS TUF GAMING B850-BTF WIFI White
LIAN LI UNI CL Fans 6xReverse 1xNormal White
MSI MAG PANO 100R PZ White
had these:
AMD 9950X3D
G.SKILL TRIDENT Z5 ROYAL NEO Silver
LIAN LI HYDROSHIFT II LCD-C 360CL White
LianLi Edge 1200 psu
and it came out looking like this:
View: https://imgur.com/a/wEH231E
which looks a lot cleaner without all of the wires and tubes. Now I'm taking off the rest of the summer from building computers and I'll be waiting for the labor day sales to make a final decision on a gpu. I suspect I'll stick with a Sapphire 9070 Nitro+ either the plain version or maybe the XT version depending on cost. Looking at the layout of the case even if I get the cabled version its not that far for the wires to go from the back bottom of the gpu to the nearest rubber grommets going into the back of the case. So it will still be mostly clean looking even without a BTF connection gpu.