I tried two online vendors that were actively soliciting customers but when push came to shove they couldn't deliver. Right around the same time I ordered an FPGA dev kit and an NVIDIA board, solved the problem I was dealing with and moved on.

Still, I would have very much liked to play around with the 'phi'.

> Admittedly I never bought any myself, my employer picked up some 31S1P from a local server OEM for testing when they were massively discounted.

That's the kind of deal I was looking at too. Maybe they were massively discounted because they were already EOL'd?