I love Newegg for decent prices….  After much debate I decided to go ahead and get started on Node 1 in which I will name “Mulder”.  “Scully” is going to have to wait a couple weeks until after my Thanksgiving hangover wears off a bit and I get the lab all setup and ready to go.  Here is what is going to show up tomorrow in my driveway. Prices and Linkage included in case you want to build you own fairly nice Quad Core vSphere 5 node in the comfort of your own sweatpants at home: