When the shock of paying $250 (street) for the Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6 motherboard wears off, console yourself with this: Four Ethernet ports for link aggregation, scads of internal and external USB 2.0 ports, FireWire (but only supported via onboard bracket leads) and, most importantly, features that will keep this board from being outmoded quickly, like future-friendly PCI Express 4X slots (as well as 16X, 1X and PCI).
