Eh, why crying over lan? Who uses onboard Lan? I'd rather have an onboard GPU, gaming is for the dogs and suckers, people game on consoles, PC is for farmville. Now a quality NIC, that's rare, and is needed. Why fuss over one NIC, any power user is going to just go buy an intel NIC, no reason to even ship a high end mobo with one, unless you are going to give us a good one.