I may choose option c before it is all over. I love the server and it is very well appointed, but would be better off hosting a slew of VM's for someone. Like I mentioned above, I can get broken screen i5 laptops all day long for cheap and just make them headless units with a built in battery backup!Nice machine... Really nice. Your processors are either E5-2667v2 (130W TDP) or E5-2650v2 (95W TDP) with 24 DIMM slots: a beast! The health monitoring is a function of the built-in iLO Management Engine; there's a separate port on the back for that.
Option C becomes sell the beast and buy yourself a brand new desktop; very desirable piece.