I have an old, well second hand Dell power edge 840 server. I'm thinking of repurposing this thing as a home desktop system. so far I installed 3 gigs of off the shelf DDR2 5300 desktop ram, got it booting, I also rigged it to boot from the raid, got installed and working a sound blaster audigy SE soundcard (I'm listening to youtube while posting this. it is running windows 7 home premium, now my dilemma is video, the onboard ATI ES1000 aint gonna cut it, I'm leaning toward an Nvidia PCI-E x1 server card (1GB DDR3 onboard) I'm wondering are there any other vendors that work with dell's x1 PCI-E slot format?
From what I'm seeing these old retired servers make pretty formidable desktop systems. I realize Dell doesn't support them being used in that capacity, but it's a great way to recycle these guys :)