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>
> The bad news is that it has only 8 PCIe lanes.  Are expansion cards
> considered uncool these days, or what?  How are you supposed to add all
> the essential stuff they leave off the mainboard?

anyway - it already have 10Gb/s ethernet, USB and 8 SATA ports. no need 
for high speed I/O expansions.

and 8 single lane PCIe ports seems enough for me.