Should I go for dual xeon woodcrest or regular core dual?

Hi everyone, I am new to this forum, and this is my first post.

I am thinking to build a new system myself. I do some gaming, but not so extreme, so this system will be at least 60% for work. And here comes the questions:

1. Should I go dual woodcrest xeon? or should I just go for the regular core dual, if money is not a problem?
2. Would I get any problem with gaming if I go for xeon? I mean how does the chipset support in those server MB?
3. Is there a big difference in performance? Both gaming and work.
4. Does any manufacture make a MB that is not for "server" but uses xeon CPUs? Cox I really want the board with all the features, like 1394, 7.1 Audio etc.
5. Should I loaded it with 32 or 64 bits OS? Both for game and work.
6. Any suggestion on a low budget xeon MB?(I don't need something crazy, just a SATA II with Raid 0,1,5; and a x16 PCIE for VGA; preferred to have at least 1 regular PCI slot for my 7.1 sound card.)

Thank you so much for your opinion. and sorry to ask so many dumb questions, cus I am out tuned from the PC market for 3 yrs already.

Wow.......Thanks a lot for all these detail information, I guess I know what to do now. Really appreciated for all those great info.

PS: I got the 2 xeon cpus for free, that's why.....

they are just the 2.0G....hehe...but yeah, its free.....

well one of the perks to xeon mobos is that alot of them support like 64GB of memory! the fact it would cost about 6 grand to get that many FB-DIMM's is besides the point

oh and this is my 64th post w00t!

looked up the 2.0ghz woodcrests on newegg and they still run about $300 a peice with an entry level/migrange mobo at about $400 with 2GB of FB-DIMM's at around $400 as well. $200 1950pro or something similar, case, PSU, HDD, cd/dvd drive, i think you could do it for like $2000 since you already have the CPU's

Yeah, but they're woodcrests. They don't need to be fast to outpace opertrons or their core 2 counterparts when it comes to server loads. Now onto the memory and mobo question. Mobos for this aren't going to be cheap but look for something from supermicro or maybe Asus or Tyan. Depends on your needs I suppose. Memory... you'll need at least 4 FB-DIMMS since it is a quad-channel memory bus so you'll end up with at least 2 gigs of ram to start off with it. Crazy aint it? Now, for gaming you'll be ok... but don't expect anything too great.

A big perk though, is that you CAN get tons of memory for these things. I personally have a Tyan Tempest i5000PW, 16 FB-DIMM SLOTS, but alas, due to problems with my bank I couldn't get everything else ::cries dramatically::