[vladvasiliu]

Indeed. I dug out the manual (MSI H170 Gaming M3), which has a block diagram showing the M2 port behind the chipset, which is connected via DMI 3 to the CPU. In my mind, the chipset was connected via actual PCIe, but apparently, it's counted separately from the "actual" PCIe lanes.

[wtallis]

Intel's DMI connection between the CPU and the chipset is little more than another PCIe x4 link. For consumer CPUs, they don't usually include it in the total lane count, but they have sometimes done so for Xeon parts based off the consumer silicon, giving the false impression that those Xeons have more PCIe lanes.