While you could use it as a workstation instead of a server, there are a few things that might affect your decision or even your success: - Dell only supports Server OS's on this server, so running an "unsupported" OS may or may not work correctly, particularly depending on the controller it has/that you use. - Dell servers (except for a handful of the very newest ones) do not support video cards - not that they won't work - just that it may require a LOT of trial/error to find one that will work. All in all, it may not be worth the trouble, unless it is really needed and/or you have the time to dedicate and a basic knowledge of operating system installs.  Of course, we can help you (sight-unseen) where we can.
Forgive me if this has been asked before, my church was given a PowerEdge 1800 tower. (left at the front door)  I connected monitor, keyboard and mouse and it boots but no OS, it's looking for a SCSI disk array. It has dual Xeon 3.0 GHz processors, 800 FSB and 4 gig RAM, so I'm thinking it might be usable as a desktop. Not the fastest, but probably no slouch either. Can I just stick an IDE drive in there, run XP Pro and pull out all those extra cards? Will it be fast enough to handle a mid-range video card? Or should I just ebay it and spend the money on something else? I've played with lots of Dells, but this is my first Poweredge. Thanks in advance...
Make a server into PC? PE1800