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Originally Posted by Arclight
Along with a more expensive motherboard and RAM, it's not exactly a cost-effective solution.
It might run in a desktop motherboard, but none explicitely support Xeons. None that I know of at any rate. And if you grab a server board, I think you need buffered RAM, which is both more expensive and slower.
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Quite a few boards support Xeon E3s actually, as for RAM, unbuffered non-ecc is fully sufficient if you want to use it as a desktop.
I actually got this idea by looking at workstations, how most lower end workstations actually just uses a standard desktop chipset and unbuffered RAM. HP charges an arm and a leg for them, so I built one for a buddy.