Is this server a good deal?

[Kylepotter5]

Budget (including currency): 500

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: For setting up home network to screw around.

Other details 

 

This server is on sale locally and it sounds like a great deal but I know nothing of servers. I currently have an i5-6600k and 1080ti desktop and was planning on dual booting a server os to run vms and mess around with.

I saw this and couldn't help but be intrigued. The guy is asking 550

Thanks in advance!

• Intel SG2600GZ motherboard

• 12 bay LFF chassis

• 2x Xeon E5-2670 v2 10 core 2.5Ghz

• 96GB total (24x 4GB)

• 4x Gigabit NIC, dedicated IPMI and serial ports

• 2x 750W 80+ Platinum PSUs

• Intel Integrated RAID Module RMS25CB080 RAID adapter w/ battery

• 480GB Kingston E50 SSD

• 4x WD Enterprise 2TB drives

• 1x Dell 15K 600GB 3.5" SAS drive

• 1x Toshiba 1TB drive

• 2x 3.5" to 2.5" drive adapters

• Comes with all 12 trays

 

[Windows7ge]

So about $400 USD. That's a pretty good price IMO given everything that comes with it.

 

I'd install a hypervisor and run your games in a Windows VM as oppose to dual boot.

[Kylepotter5]

2 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

So about $400 USD. That's a pretty good price IMO given everything that comes with it.

 

I'd install a hypervisor and run your games in a Windows VM as oppose to dual boot.

I meant instead of buying the server, use my current desktop to dual boot.

[Windows7ge]

Just now, Kylepotter5 said:

I meant instead of buying the server, use my current desktop to dual boot.

Ah, that depends on what your plans are in terms of messing around. Some features common to server OS's are hardware dependent (meaning for the software to do it's job the hardware needs to support the features) and not all desktop hardware can do it especially when it comes to virtualization.

[Kylepotter5]

2 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

Ah, that depends on what your plans are in terms of messing around. Some features common to server OS's are hardware dependent (meaning for the software to do it's job the hardware needs to support the features) and not all desktop hardware can do it especially when it comes to virtualization.

Makes sense, thanks for the input