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Hi everyone I am considering possibly replacing the Tyan S7012 motherboard in my 2U home fileserver/NAS to get more PCI-E slots. My current mobo has 4 x PCI-E 2.0 x8 + 1 x PCI-E 1.1 x4, but the x4 slot has turned out to be of even more questionable usage than 1.1 x4 would already suggest, as...

Does anyone have experience working with the Dell C8220 motherboard outside of a server unit? I tried to do a search, but only came up with one thread tagged with C8220. I picked one up recently with the hopes to use it as an overkill PC. Kind of an experiment to get my feet wet with server...