Before I begin, I do note this is a very specific question, and will almost certainly fall under the "Not Supported" category. As a soon-to-be college student, money is tight, so reducing price and maximizing performance is essential for a person who will be using CAD on a near-daily basis and creating complex structures in programs such as CATIA and SolidWorks. These are the main reasons I am going with a server-based build. Beyond this, the price of Xeon processors are quite cheap, even for LGA 2011/v2.
I say all this to ask the following; is it possible to do a custom build using this board (Dell 0658N7 PowerEdge Tower T620 Xeon Socket LGA2011/R DDR3 Server Motherboard) or is it so locked down that it would be unreasonable to even try?
The following are the planned specs for the final product:
2x Xeon E5-2670 CPUs
64GB 1333 REG ECC Ram (salvaged from 1366 X5500 series server)
2x Firepro w7000 4GB/ Firepro w8000
2x 256gb SATAIII SSDs
1200 watt PSU?
Custom case
Windows 10?
Temporary/Initial Specs
1x E5-2670
32GB 1333 REG ECC Ram (salvaged from 1366 X5500 series server)
r9 290x (Primary concern, as I am not even 100% sure Radeon GPUs are supported.)
1x 256GB SSD + 1x 1TB storage HDD
700 Watt PSU?
Custom Case
Windows 10?
Unfortunately I have an r9 290x just laying around as the computer it was intended for did not support it. This is the main reason I am including this into the build. I am not really expecting this to be a gaming computer, but I believe I have a modded Firepro driver that is modded to support the r9 290x and have it be viewed as a firepro w9100. I am interested to see if/how well this works.
While I would prefer definitive answers, any feedback is welcome.