Well the motherboard did not sell, so I ended the auction for the ram also.......so thinking of what to do with them.

Looks like I found a use for it.

DAMN thats a huge case, a SSI-EEB sized motherboard in it and still it has more room.

I wonder if a 4 cpu motherboard will fit?  

Well after running about three weeks with a single Xeon E5-2695 V2 12 core cpu mining Monero, its time for something new.

I bought two E5-2650 V1's for $12.50 each plus shipping on ebay, seller seems a little sketchy but they were cheap enough so I took the risk.

Plus I won two E5-2620 6 core cpu's on ebay, one was $1.00 and the other was $2.50 plus shipping , as a backup.

So hopefully I will be able to sell the E5-2695 V2 for way more than I paid for it, got it dirt cheap, to pay for a Rosewill 4U server case to house the board and a couple of RX480's and a few HGST 2TB hard drives that I already have.

Two E5-2560's or even two 2620's are more than enough to build a Monero GPU mining and NAS server with Ubuntu 16.04 and maybe a VM or two to play around with.

So it still lives!!

Are you making anything at all with Monero mining?  I plugged the numbers into a calculator and came up with something like 2 bucks a day.

Oh about $5.00 per day after subtracting electricity, I pay .097 KWh , so its defiantly worth it running on a pc that is on anyway.

But that IS the important thing....cheap electricity!!

That's one of the ways kstanton made his fortune -- he invested the early money he made into a complete solar setup that let him mine for free.  

In general, the money isn't in mining, it's in speculation -- monero would have been a good one to get in on the ground floor of, but it's such a technical pile of shit I didn't think it was going anywhere.

Finally got around to taking the E5-2695 V2 out and replacing it with the $3.25 worth of Xeon E5-2620's.

Had to replace the 430 watt power supply with a EVGA 750 G2 because I needed a power supply with a second cpu connector.

Oh and the two cheap E5-2650's never showed up, had to file a claim with ebay.

But on a positive note he did give me a great feedback score !!

Finally started to fill up that ginormous case, next up some 2 tb hard drives and play around with ZFS on Linux again.

The cpu coolers are smaller than I wanted but they were under $20.00 each and actually cool pretty damn good.

This case is about 15 years old and had many motherboards in it over the years.

I still need to tidy up the wiring.

Update:

Mounted the motherboard in a new smaller case a couple of months ago and installed Ubuntu 17.04, its is %100 solid with zero issues.

Been mining Monero on the two E5-2620 six core cpu's since.

Very interested in doing a build like this. I need to. Hold a new one anyway since mine is on its last leg

Still plenty of cheap V1 Xeon's on ebay, the E5-2670's have gone up since I bought them but the 2680's are the better deal now since they are only a few dollars more than the current prices of the 2670's and have a 300 mhz higher clockspeed.

Just swapped in two currently unused E5-2660 cpu's and a GTX 650 since the XFX 7700 is starting to crap out, replaced the 80 gig sata drive with a 120 gig ssd boot/root drive and a 2 TB Hitachi hard drive as /home and reinstalled Ubuntu 17.04 desktop to replace 16.04.02.

The 2665's make LOTS more heat compared to the 2620's.

Runs nicer tho.