I want to build a server for my company - I have built a ton of PC's but I'm not 100 percent sure where to source the parts for rack mountable servers. It seems like rack mountable servers have specially shaped mobos and power supplies for example. Any help would be appreciated.

so I falsly assumed that servers required specially shaped motherboards based on the insides of only one server I saw with VERY strange mobos. (they were long and thin, very weird) I parted the server out just to see the costs if I buy EVERYTHING ONLY from newegg. Without getting any sort of bulk discount or shopping around or upgrading parts for cheaper.

1 to 1 matching of parts http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811152095&cm_re=SUPERMICRO_CSE-825TQ-_-11-152-095-_-Product 570 (this can probably be found for 100 dollars cheaper)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182933&cm_re=super_x10dri-_-13-182-933-_-Product 429

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117479&cm_re=Intel_Xeon_E5-2630v3-_-19-117-479-_-Product 684 * 2

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816118230 630

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106044 364 * 3

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106128 155

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167289 207 * 2

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148843 571 * 4

comes out to 6787 or about 1063 dollars cheaper to build myself. Any reason why some of these parts are so expensive? or is it just because all of them are "server grade" ?

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