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why so many power connectors?

Why not, its just a test board and there's plenty of board space. For the retail boards you just don't dont drop PCI-E connectors through and leave them as empty connections.

I personally would have preferred the chips to be centralised and squashed together more so we could have used standardised PC heatsinks cooling all 4 chips. 350W can be done with one higher end air heatsink or basic 120mm watercooling. I think its time we moved away from these strange aluminium blocks with obscene fans to make up for the low surface areas.

350watt on a "high end" air cooler is going to result in bad temperatures.
With a price of a high end air cooler it would be easier to buy one of those corsair aio water cooling units and have better performance for a price in the same ballpark.

High end air with a sensible fan = will do that fine while being smaller, lighter and cheaper. Either way it doesn't matter because I don't think its what we're getting.

I'm not sure what high end cooler you are referring to. For $80-100 a H series Corsair AIO will dissipate more heat regardless.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103189&cm_re=cooler_master_v8-_-35-103-189-_-Product
I am assuming this is what you consider a high end air cooler, if that is the case then yes the Corsair units would be better all around.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181031&cm_re=corsair_h80-_-35-181-031-_-Product

That cooler master will be a huge awkward sized cooler where the corsair will be a small block with a radiator where you can position to your convenience...

... no, just no....

Your post regarding an air cooler dissipating 350watt is nonsense. Dual 120mm radiators with decent fans of 1500-1800rpm would dissipate up to 300w. I am not sure where you're pulling your magical unicorn numbers from. Feel free to post a air cooler that can dissipate 350watts, make sure it doesn't have 5000rpm fans attached to it.