It is very important to know when and where to pick your battles. While we continually see countless motherboards coming to market with enormous amounts of features, there comes a point where something else has to give in order to support another. There are only so many PCI lanes, only so many controllers. Once they are filled, either an additional controller must be added, or another feature must go away, there is just no way around it. So, with so many boards out there, and so many of them looking practically identical on paper?.how does one choose?