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My power supply is also rated for 5V at 3A on the 5vSB line, but I've been using a boost converter upto 12V and it's been working fine so you should be alright. The main 12V rail draws approximately ~25A under full load so make sure your power supply can handle that.

Update #1: Modified the ATX Patch Cable & added a 5VSB to 12V boost converter. Also cut the wire that shorted the green ATX pin to ground and soldered it to the PS_ON pin on the motherboard. Both mods worked great and windows can now shut down properly. Still haven't had time to get GPU...

Hey guys, been browsing this thread for a while as I wanted to build my own server/workstation for rendering, game servers, off site file hosting, and other stuff. My plan was to go with 2x E5-2680 a C8220 MB(actually a C6220, more on that later), 32GB of ECC DDR3-1333 RAM & some storage. After...