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Budget Game Server Build

Spaceman_Wil
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Howdy! I'm working on moving a couple game servers off of my spare pc and scale it into my Server Rack that up until now has been collecting dust. Right now the specs of the PC that I'd ideally like to upgrade out of are:

 

i7 2600 - 3.8GHZ Quad Core

10GB of Ram - 1333Mhz 2 sticks of 4GB 1 stick of 2GB (One of the slots broke)

GT 740 - I know it isn't necessary but the motherboard i/o is finicky

1TB HDD

 

Here is what I'm looking at purchasing to put in the server rack:

 

2x Intel Xeon X5680 3.6Ghz Six-Core

Motherboard: Intel S5520HC Dual LGA 1366 Socket ATX Server Motherboard (It is how it is listed, I actually believe it is not ATX but instead SSI EEB)

24GB of Ram - 1333Mhz (12 sticks of 2GB)

 

My questions are, any suggestions that help me get the best bang for my buck? I have the ram already but it's about $150 for the mobo + cpus and I'm still looking for a rack mounted case that'll work. Which is my second question. Any suggestions on budget friendly rack mounted cases?

 

The game servers I am currently running on my PC are just Minecraft and Space Engineers, but I'd like to setup an Arma 3 server and have availability for more.

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Do you really need dual Xeons?
I can run multiple servers (Modded Minecraft and modded Space Engineers) off my i5-4670k + 32GB DDR3 PC. Works fine.

CPU usage is around 50% with both servers running, Minecraft uses maybe 6-8GB of RAM, and Space Engineers takes less (iirc).

Primary PC: - https://pcpartpicker.com/list/8G3tXv (Windows 10 Home)

HTPC: - https://pcpartpicker.com/list/KdBb4n (Windows 10 Home)
Server: Dell Precision T7500 - Dual Xeon X5660's, 44GB ECC DDR3, Dell Nvidia GTX 645 (Windows Server 2019 Standard)      

*SLI Rig* - i7-920, MSI-X58 Platinum SLI, 12GB DDR3, Dual EVGA GTX 260 Core 216 in SLI - https://pcpartpicker.com/list/GHw6vW (Windows 7 Pro)

HP DC7900 - Core 2 Duo E8400, 4GB DDR2, Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT (Windows Vista)

Compaq Presario 5000 - Pentium 4 1.7Ghz, 1.7GB SDR, PowerColor Radeon 9600 Pro (Windows XP x86 Pro)
Compaq Presario 8772 - Pentium MMX 200Mhz, 48MB PC66, 6GB Quantum HDD, "8GB" HP SATA SSD adapted to IDE (Windows 98 SE)

Asus M32AD - Intel i3-4170, 8GB DDR3, 250GB Seagate 2.5" HDD (converting to SSD soon), EVGA GeForce GTS 250, OEM 350W PSU (Windows 10 Core)

*Haswell Tower* - https://pcpartpicker.com/list/3vw6vW (Windows 10 Home)

*ITX Box* - https://pcpartpicker.com/list/r36s6R (Windows 10 Education)

Dell Dimension XPS B800 - Pentium 3 800Mhz, RDRAM

In progress projects:

*Skylake Tower* - Pentium G4400, Asus H110

*Trash Can* - AMD A4-6300

*GPU Test Bench*

*Pfsense router* - Pentium G3220, Asrock H97m Pro A4, 4GB DDR3

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1 hour ago, Eastman51 said:

Do you really need dual Xeons?
I can run multiple servers (Modded Minecraft and modded Space Engineers) off my i5-4670k + 32GB DDR3 PC. Works fine.

CPU usage is around 50% with both servers running, Minecraft uses maybe 6-8GB of RAM, and Space Engineers takes less (iirc).

Do I need it? No. But I'm trying to learn more about servers and so I'm trying to build budget while still retaining usability for my uses. I'm a bit of a hands on learner

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