Minnesota and some of the norther states do that too , but that was a key point in the Canadian argument . <| sep |> Basically , without gong into the minutia , which I dont understand all of myself , you are getting lanes from both the chipset AND the cpu . Each has a pool . The 8 GT will be x 4 . The lack of lanes in skylake isn ' t a big deal for most as 99 % of the boards are 6 sata ports or less and there are plenty enough lanes to run a gpu at full bandwidth and to run that many drives . I ' ll be doing a build soon for someone with a sabertooth board with 8 ports for an editing rig and it simply uses an extra controller for the 2 extra ports . The catch is that its storage only , not atapi devices . <| sep |> Thanks . I hadn ' t thought about him . Gundogen was one i was thinking of but not sure if he would just a be a cut and paste for Erikson .