My home server build

[ServerSide_Drew]

I just finished breadboard testing the base hardware for my home server.
 The specs so far are as follows.

 

Processor (CPU)

Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5690 @ 3.47GHz

2 CPU - 12 Core - 24 Thread

3564.37 MHz (27 * 132.01 MHz) - Uncore: 2640.3 MHz

Current: 27 / Min: 12 / Max: 28

Westmere-EP / B1 Step (32 nm)

6.C.2 / 6.2C

MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, EM64T

L1D : 32 KB / L2 : 256 KB / L3 : 12288 KB

L1D : 8-way / L2 : 8-way / L3 : 16-way

Rev. 0x0000014

130 Watts / 1.224 Volts

Retail (Original Frequency : 3466 MHz)

Motherboard

Supermicro X8DT3

Socket 1366 LGA

Intel 5520 rev 22

Intel 82801JR (ICH10R) rev 00

American Megatrends Inc. 2.0c (08/30/2011)

Memory (RAM)

20472 MB

Triple Channel (192 bit) DDR3-SDRAM

660.1 MHz - Ratio 2:10

Graphic Card (GPU)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (GM204) @ 135 MHz

4096 MB @ 324 MHz

Storage (HDD/SSD)

Model #1

Samsung SSD 850 EVO 120GB

Western Digital WDC WD6400AAKS-22A7B2 640 GB

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition (Full) 64-bit

 

I am going to be using the server to do CAD rendering for class over RDC so more cores are the king of the hill here. I am currently using the stock CPU coolers but would like to switch to water cooling for the GPU and CPUs. I am also undecided on a case. I currently am running the system bread-boarded until I can find a case I like the looks of.

 

Suggestions and comments are appreciated!