NO. This motherboard has the PEX8747--and (as I pointed out in my initial reply) the limits of that chip's configurability made your post (to which I was replying) totally irrelevant.... The 8749 IS on this motherboard and only has 5.
Yes, it is. For sake of this discussion, it provides the necessary and sufficient technical info (FIVE ports), and it IS from a reliable source, the manufacturer.Regardless, a product brief is not documentation.