Speaking of Xeon, you could probably put together a much cheaper workstation with an older Xeon over the eMag. I just don’t see myself picking this up, at its current price point.

Without knowing what the perf is like, it is really difficult to say. 32 cores @ 2.8-3.3 GHz sounds like quite a lot, I don't think getting 32 core Xeon would be anywhere near as cheap as this.

there is a chinese motherboard that'll drive 2 xeon processors. It fits in a E-ATX case. It should be ~ $250 USD shipped.

I used some cheap ($20 USD!) Xeons (E5-2620v2) and have 24 cores.. so it's doable for $500.

To which model of motherboard dost thou allude?

How convenient to use the same number as the top bin Xeon CPU, eh? Can't copyright a number though, of course.

Hilariously enough, that's why it was called a Pentium and not a 586.

Yep, I'm definitely familiar with the history coming from Intel :)

It's also based on the Skylark microarchitecture.