Suggestions pls: Building a 30-35k worth PC for home lab use

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Thanks jhnkvn. Haswell it is.

What do you think of the i7-4770 paired with a H87 board from any of the manufacturers I mentioned?

On HP servers and SSDs, iLO4 is simply draconian. The slightest deviation of the results from any of the several system checks that it does will cause the server to display a fault and then shut down. I neither have the time nor the patience to think up ways to go around it. Hence, I'm building my own white box so I can have my way.

In one situation, somebody wanted to replace the noisy fan on a G8 Microserver. However, the stock fan has 6 pins. Replacing it with a 4-pin aftermarket fan didn't work and depending on how the pins were lined up, will either cause the server to shut down or run the replacement fan at full speed, among other annoying results. Another owner programmed an Arduino to read the PWM signal from the server and produce a fake tach signal back. He had some limited success but he would still occasionally get a red or amber fault light from the server.