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I'm well aware of the PLX chip and its feature set. My question was what booster functionality was Raymond referring to?

Can you elaborate on the Premium using a PCIe booster? I'm unaware of this and would like clarification. I was under the impression that the P9X79 was a pre-implementation of PCIe 3.0, whereas the Z&& premium is a full PCIe 3.0 implementation.

Don't rule out the Z77 boards. The P8Z77-V Premium as a statement piece could have provided you with enough PCI lanes, plus a lot of other extras including native thunderbolt. Really expensive, but at least you have the more advanced board.