Converting an Small Business Server to a Workstation

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I am planning to buy a Dell PowerEdge T110 Server and convert it to workstation similar to Dell PowerEdge Precision T1700.

The reasoning behind is the cost, if I do it by myself, it costs two times cheaper. However, I wonder what might go wrong in this way?

The things I have thought of are:

Client OSes are not officially supported. There might be some driver problems.
The chasis is designed to be a server case, so there are not many useful inputs in the front side of the case.
The server boots slower than usual PCs.

What might else be a problem?

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