7FigureSwagger

I dislike "San Francisco Culture" and how it's selectively censored some views (that have traditionally been considered boring and non-controversial) while amplifying voices that I find toxic.
I dislike the idea of a "permanent record"
I dislike hyper-targeting. 
I dislike how customers are algorithmically milked for cash. 
 

You guys are amazing, thank you for all your help and suggestions. Stoked to get home and deploy these changes. 💖

sure you can set it up so each process uses a different port. Normally you can do this by setting different IPs, and having different progrms listen on different IPs.
 
You can also do bonding, but that requires a supported switch.

I'm not sure about setting that up within a single OS(such as Windows or Linux), but definitely you should be able to do that, I'm unsure as to the specifics of setting that up outside a hypervisor/virtual machine environment.
 
From some cursory poking around the internet, it looks like you can map, or bridge(not sure what the right term here is) both ports to a single IP address, have both of them connected to your router, and double your bandwidth that way as the network will think there's only one port. That will certainly increase your throughput and network performance.

Definitely don't mix UDIMMs and RDIMMs, and definitely don't mix ECC and non-ECC, systems usually don't like when that happens.
As far as capacity goes, the manual states the type of DIMM(UDIMM vs RDIMM) and the amount of CPUs can differentiate the max amount of RAM you can install.
 
Are you following the correct population order for the DIMM slots?(listed on page 45 of the manual)
 
My experience has been if a network port isn't explicitly in use, then it's not automatically disabled. It just isn't in use, but is still available to be used at a moment's notice if you need to connect something to it. Some of these server boards will sometimes have a network port specifically for networked management, and the other port(s) on the board are for actual network traffic.

@Crunchy Dragon
Okay yeah, I also managed to recover many, many sticks of DDR3 RAM, so out of my 3 bags I should be able to find stuff. My geek brain went straight to the sticks with heat sinks lol... I literally learned how to figure out difference between UDIMM and RDIMM (again showing my rookie skill, as I didn't know about this difference with RAM), while writing my OP haha...
As for population order, I did not pay proper attention to that either, but got it on second try, so that part is fine for now.

Re. network ports, yeah I see there is a network port for management, then they have 1 and 2 Ethernet side by side. I guess I was just wondering if that sort of increases bandwidth that can be pushed in and out from the machine, ie. plugging in a second connection giving me 'twice the pipe' lol...
Or if its intended for:
 - process 1 running thru port 1
 - process 2 running thru port 2

Hope I made sense there!

If the ram is fully soldered then i would go with 32gb.

Yes. 
 
Download throttlestop. It can monitor power limits, let you mess with it (to a certain degree, limited by the motherboard's bios) and especially the voltage. That's how you do undervolting to squeeze out more performance and efficiency. 
 
You should know it's not comparable between different architectures.