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These boards are a little long in the tooth for their original use but now that they're in the surplus market, it's time to turn this nice, no frills workstation board into my new budget gaming rig! Paired with a Xeon E5-1650 and 64GB of DDR-3 ECC registered RAM, you can cobble together a potent platform for $400 that not only has more RAM than any new consumer PC in this price range but is also more reliable with server grade parts and ECC RAM. If you need more than 6 cores, the E5-2600 series CPUs are also an option. The E5-2667v2 is a particularly good choice with 8 cores and a fast enough base clock for desktop use (3.3GHz, 4.0GHz turbo boost) and a considerably lower price than the 2687W. Since it's a workstation board, you don't have to endure a lot of the hardships of using a server as a desktop yet you get most of the server features including the build quality and ECC. You get decent onboard audio, USB3.0 on the front and back and a nice, workable layout. If you want a server PSU like the PWS-865-PQ, there's a PMbus connector for monitoring the PSU with greater detail. To be clear, you won't be overclocking and your single thread performance won't be earth shattering but you'll have gobs of RAM (up to 256GB!), plenty of threads for multitasking and new game engines that can spawn more than a few threads and you'll be doing it for not much more than i3 money.Read full review
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Very good
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I have it. It performs excellent with reliable operational lifespam. Thanks superMicro C.
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