Seriously nowI'm actually looking forward to the Gigabyte x58 board being released, has a few more tricks like 10 SATA ports, 12 USB ports and some other stuff that looked promising (crap load of heatpiping and fins around the northbridge, possibly cheaper than the Asus comparison).
How many people have more than 2 drives in their system (HDD+optical)?
How many of those have more than 3 (HDD+HDD+optical)?
How many of those have more than 4 (HDD+HDD (raid boot)+HDD+optical)?
And how many of THOSE have more than 4 *without* going to an add-in controller?
Same for USB. Who has 12 USB devices and doesnt want to run a hub just to clean up the cables? Much less power reqs. An external optical, kb, mouse, hdd, even a couple thumbdrives and a pair of printers is still only 8. Whats the rest for?