Designing the PERFECT Home Server for your Home Lab

I’m not stupid,but… that gives me a headache just thinking about it 😱😂

it's actually even more confusing,
1) some motherboards have reduced features depending on cpu used – for ex. Ryzen 5700G on its own doesn't support PCIe gen4 at all
2) all the motherboard "chipset" connectivity is limited to (usually) PCIe x4 link to a cpu, so you get heavy bottlenecks, when for ex. simultaneously using onboard chipset LAN, chipset M.2 SSD, chipset SATA SSDs, and chipset USB-C as backup
3) some PCIe cards have own internal lane switching, so they may not need bifurcation support at all, and can operate with less PCIe lanes – for ex. Sonnet 8×4 card can run 8x NVME SSDs but even when not plugged in x16 slot (obviously the total speed of the SSDs combined will be capped by slot)