Yeah maybe that’s why they caught my attention. Money is certainly an object but I’m willing to piece it together slowly over time. Pretty much can only spend a few hundred bucks at a given moment before I need to wait for either a paycheck or a great deal, and really can’t justify dropping thousands on a setup, but I also don’t want to cheap out. I have plenty of storage (24tb in 4tb enterprise drives and then another 10 or so handful of other 1tb) but nothing else yet. I have a couple great deals on large eatx cases with tons of drive Bays. Thinking I might as well go big if I have the space (also it seems more cost effective to go with the lff boards). And yes I was at least initially thinking a dual cpu setup would be ideal, but seems there are a lot of mixed feelings about that so im less sure on that tbh. Looked at xeons mostly, but I do see/hear the epycs are great. I’ll do some research on what’s in my price range there today. Thanks for replying btw!
Well I got no rack unfortunately so space is a concern. Plus my gf is very sound sensitive. I would Der be looking at the used. Market for everything but the board probably. Although there is a 720 with cpus and 64gb ecc for 120 at my local pawn shop. But they have “no idea where it came from” which makes me nervous.