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Oh man, That is 100% amazing I am considering buying it for the pure unadulterated sillyness. It's like a v8 motorcycle.

Be careful, sometimes these server boards will be missing stuff that you'll want in a desktop. ASRock Rack boards often have insomnia. That is, they don't support low power states.

> There's even a mini-ITX one for some reason

So that you cat fit 2 motherboards in that 2 CPU setup! a.k.a. redundant motherboards. /s

I once spent a good while trying to figure out why a 2U server wasn't recognizing new drives. No messages, no errors, no lights, nothing.

Finally it turned out that it's not a 2U server with 12 bays, but two separate servers in one box, side by side. Half the bays go to one, half to the other. Each side has two CPUs in it, and one was completely powered off.