It's not for gaming. This is for a server for a University. We are just doing a custom build rather then buying a server with the same hardware cause that would end up with triple the cost plus the I7 3930k systems are not out yet. The video card was recommended as a cheap card for 100 bucks. I went with a decent motherboard cause it was recommended for the build on another site for ESXI but the guy has yet to test it. As far as the LGA2011 socket boards there are not a ton and this one should function according to it specs. The case has 6 hot swappable bays which we have 6 drives, 1tb drives for. The server will be running VMware Esxi With Windows Server, basically for webhosting and running databases. There may be some video and audio streaming as well. What else would everyone recommend to make it a better server box, as Server Grunt says it will not be a great server. Our current servers are way under those specs, so I thought this would be a good build.