I was running Wok + Kimchi + gingerbase on the HP, i'm now using proxmox instead. Short of having lights out management (out of band) built in, i haven't noticed much difference between the platforms being "a server" and "a desktop"; make no mistake, 5950x is a monster chip, but it's still a desktop with two few PCIe lanes for me to consider it "a server" - luckily i only require enough PCIe to have an old GPU and extra SATA ports. If i was building out stuff to do more research i'd want more pcie lanes than the Ryzen Desktop supports.